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Exeter-based brownie business has recipe for success in nationwide search for high-flying entrepreneurs

Entrepreneur Carol Vorderman has named Cake or Death , an Exeter-based vegan letterbox brownie company, as the winner of a £5,000 business bursary from Starling Bank , following a nationwide search for small business customers with growth potential.

Cake or Death, founded by Katie Cross in 2020, creates some of the UK’s most loved brownies, available to order online to be delivered hassle-free through your letterbox. Beautifully packaged in pink leopard print, the Cake or Death experience is a luxury treat and 100% vegan.

Carol Vorderman was joined on the judging panel...

​The Gang is Back! Exeter Scout and Guide Gang Show ready for its 35th show

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Mon, 03/18/2019 - 12:07pm

Exeter’s Scouts and Guides will be “Riding along on the crest of a wave” again this Easter as they take over the Barnfield Theatre from the 10th to the 13th April 2019 for this year’s Exeter Gang Show.

Bigger, brighter and louder than ever before, the 35thExeter Scout and Guide Gang Show is packed full of popular songs, dance and laugh out loud sketches and has everything to keep audience members of any age entertained.

The cast of over 80 Cubs, Brownies, Scouts, Guides, Explorers, Rangers and Leaders from across Exeter and the surrounding areas are swapping their hiking...

Brownies learn about the community value of Hospiscare

Authored by Hospiscare
Posted: Wed, 05/31/2017 - 2:32pm

Hospiscare’s latest shop opened in Heavitree in March and is already doing a roaring trade in a range of electrical goods, homeware, clothes, and second-hand books.

Recently, however, the shop took on a more educational role as the manager Bonnie Gilbert was invited to visit the Heavitree Brownie Troop to share the importance of the work that Hospiscare does.

“The Brownies, all between the ages of seven and ten, were studying the theme of ‘community’, so it seemed like the ideal opportunity to teach them about the importance of Hospiscare and how the charity supports local...

Cranbrook's Co-operative opens for business

Cranbrook’s beavers, brownies, guides, cubs and scouts will be helping to open The Southern Co-operative’s new store in Cranbrook near Exeter yesterday (Friday 18 September).

The new store, which has created 17 jobs for local people, will be open seven days a week from 6.30am-11pm. This is the latest store for the independent regional retailer, The Southern Co-operative, whose nearest stores to Cranbrook include three in Exeter; Beacon Lane, Alphington Road and Buddle Lane.

Store Manager, Suzanne Northover, enthused: “I am really looking forward to this new store playing a...

Coffee Morning

Event Date: 
22/08/2015 - 10:00am
Venue: 
Church Hall, Main Road, Pinhoe

Support Pinhoe Rainbows, Brownies and Guides at their coffee morning on Saturday 22 August between 10am and noon.

Refreshments, cakes books and draw.

1st Pinhoe Brownies coffee morning

Event Date: 
20/06/2015 - 10:00am
Venue: 
Hall Church, Pinhoe, Exeter

The 1st Pinhoe Brownies are holding a coffee morning at Pinhoe Hall Church on Saturday 20 June.

Between 10am and noon you can enjoy cakes, and refreshments.

There will also be items for sale.

Go along and support the Brownies!