Fed up with dark mornings and wet weather? A launch project in Exeter could be just what you need to brighten your day.
Fun A Day was started in 2004 in Philadelphia, USA by a group of friends wanting to stay creative through the winter. It has since been adopted across the USA and has ventured as far as Dundee, Scotland. This year it hits Exeter. Exeter residents and recent imports Stephen Fisher and Ali Lucas are launching Fun A Day in Exeter, to be conducted through February with an exhibition at Positive Light Projects on 18-19th March, 2023.
A group of students aged 11-13 and their families from Cranbrook Educational Campus have taken part in a ‘ready, steady, cook!’ style series of healthy cooking sessions provided by Axminster charity HALFF (Health and Local Food for Families).
Funded by East Devon District Council via NHS England’s healthy new towns programme, ‘Cranbake’ gave students and families a chance to cook a variety of meals together as part of a four week course.
Parents were surveyed and feedback included: “After school on Wednesday afternoons, we made delicious meals in the school kitchen, like...
Great British Bake Off finalist Kimberley Wilson is urging people in Exeter to raise ‘lots of dough’ for the MS Society by getting involved in Cake Break on 20 May, a mouth-watering event aiming to raise over £250,000 to support people living with multiple sclerosis (MS) in the UK.
Everyone who takes part will be in with a chance of winning a baking master class with none other than the Bake Off star herself, as well as a selection of award winning gourmet jams from Kimberley’s own The Glamourous Jam Co. Speaking about her support for Cake Break, Kimberley says: “A close family...
Children had lots of fun in Exeter’s Princesshay on Saturday (6 June) as they baked muffins in a free charity cookery workshop.
After donning chef’s hats and aprons they got stuck in, a shaking and a baking, making new friends and listening to the crazy instructions from head chef Joe Mann who runs Fun Kitchens.
Joe was working in partnership with local charity Hospiscare to promote the Big Devon Bake Off, September 12-20, when people are encouraged to bake cakes, invite friends and family around for a bit of a do and put out a donation bowl. A simple fun way of raising...
Bring your children along to Exeter’s Princesshay on Saturday (6 June) between 10am and 3pm for some fabulous free foodie fun in the kitchen.
Fun Kitchen will be running cookery workshops every hour, on the hour, free to all, to celebrate the launch of Hospiscare’s Big Devon Bake Off 2015.
Children can learn new skills by getting their hands dirty and getting stuck in making some tasty treats.
The workshops will be led by double award-winning food teacher and founder of Fun Kitchen Joe Mann, who said: "Whether a child is crazy about baking, potty about pies and...
A road safety campaign which was launched in Devon last year has been so successful, it's to have its own national awareness day.
The My Red Thumb campaign, hit the headlines last May as a multi-agency road safety campaign designed to raise awareness of the risks of distraction specifically associated with using a mobile phone while driving.
The aim of the campaign was to reach as many road users as possible through the use of social media and to use behavioural change techniques to encourage people to change their habits.
Celebrity TV baker Glenn Cosby officially launched the Big Devon Bake Off at Powderham Castle urging bakers to roll up their sleeves.
In a Great British Bake Off style marquee tastefully decorated with patriotic bunting, flowers and herbs Glenn gave details about this fundraising event which will help an essential local charity – Hospiscare.
Glenn is a passionate advocate of the hospice movement. The burly baker, who took part in last year’s GBBO show, recognises Hospiscare’s work; having worked previously as a teacher and seeing the importance of good end of life care....
I am a young woman in her mid teens who loves all things cake! Now, who doesn’t love a good cake? Whether you are just a cake eater or whether you are like me and love to bake your own, I hope you will read my cake-filled blog.
I have been baking from a young age. I can remember being stood on a chair in my grandmother’s kitchen helping her with everything from a Victoria sponge to a sumptuous chocolate cake.
I used to be given my wooden spoon and my apron and await instructions. My job was always the beating, whisking and the mixing. Now after all of the beating and the...
