A unique event of world class performances and artists including, amongst others, DAME HILARY MANTEL, MARK RYLANCE, IMOGEN STUBBS, JONATHAN LEWIS, JOSS ACKLAND AND VANESSA KIRBY.
Champagne & Canape Reception, Souvenir Brochure, Raffle and Bespoke Auction.
Further artists to be confirmed.
Tickets: £60
Please note that all artist appearances are subject to availability. Exeter Northcott Theatre reserves the right to make changes to the programme if necessary.
Walking Home For Christmas is Walking With The Wounded’s charity event which supports our wounded soldiers.
The campaign will see thousands of people across the UK ditching the bus, car and tube and ‘walking home for Christmas’ to support those veterans who don’t have a home to walk to.
All the money raised will go towards WWTWs Home Straight programme which focusses on supporting wounded, injured and sick veterans who have become homeless and getting them back into work.
You will be able to walk between 15th and 26th December 2014. Whether you walk one or one...
This year Cotley Farm Christmas Trees will be available at a brand new Exeter site, just 10 minutes from the city centre.
Please join us as we celebrate the launch of the new site on December 7th in support of local charity Hospiscare.
Bring the family along and choose your high-quality non-drop Christmas Tree. Meet, feed and stroke real life Reindeer and enjoy mulled wine, mince pies and much more!
Sylvain from Little French Cakes (a runner up for Devon Life Food Awards) will be offering pulled pork baps and falafel burgers as well as Little Pot sauces for gifts...
How do you learn how to be a good gorilla? You go to gorilla school, of course.
And 12-year-old Kivu is earning top marks when it comes to sitting in a barrel.
He was photographed at Paignton Zoo Environmental Park in Devon by Curator of Mammals Neil Bemment.
“I’m not sure if he was being Father Christmas coming down the chimney, but he certainly seemed to be enjoying himself,” said Neil.
Top zoos provide animals with what is known as environmental enrichment, scientifically designed to help keep them stimulated mentally and physically. Enrichment can range...
FORCE Cancer Charity has been awarded £3,000 in the Lloyds Bank Community Fund 2014 in Exeter. Following votes from members of the public FORCE has been awarded a grant from Lloyds Bank to enable it to continue doing good work in the community. FORCE has played a vital role in local cancer services for nearly 30 years. The charity believes that anyone diagnosed with cancer deserves the best possible treatment and professional support close to home. Its work finances improvements in patient care through research, the purchase of advanced equipment and the Cancer Support and Information...
Local Website Design and Digital Marketing Company, Optix Solutions, have recently become involved in a project to help raise money for Children’s Hospice South West.
The project involves selling as many cookies as possible to businesses in and around the Devon area, the cookies can be ordered over the phone or online, and are freshly baked and delivered to the office on set days. There is a minimum subscription order of 10 cookies to be delivered on a weekly basis for 5 weeks, costing a total of £60, or a one-off delivery of 10 cookies for £15 (delivery is included in these prices...
Top South West zoos are marking the anniversary of a key global conservation tool. Staff and volunteers at Paignton Zoo, Living Coasts in Torquay and Newquay Zoo in Cornwall are celebrating 50 years of the Red List.
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature Red List of Threatened Species is the world’s most comprehensive information source on the global conservation status of animal, fungi and plant species and their links to livelihoods.
Simon Tonge, the Executive Director of the Whitley Wildlife Conservation Trust, the charity that runs the three zoos, said...
Cotley Farm Christmas Trees has been offering high quality Christmas trees in East Devon for the last 10 years and this year they have expanded to offer their trees just 10 minutes from the centre of Exeter at Matford Home Farm.
Traditional, high quality Christmas Trees will be sold at the new central location, Matford Home Farm, next door to the Devon Hotel and beside Parr’s Country Store from 1 December.
Helen and Lester Bowker who grow the trees on their East Devon Farm pride themselves on offering fresh, top quality trees for a more traditional Christmas experience....
An Exeter charity faced with rebuilding its headquarters is calling on artistic and creative individuals and groups to help by completing a short survey.
Over the last 30 years the Scrapstore has provided a wealth of arts and crafts materials to families, community organisations, schools, playgroups and artists across Devon.
Now in its fourth year as a charity the Scrapstore is looking to the future. Its current home, a hut in the corner of Belmont Park is over 75 years old and will need replacing or a major makeover.
Alan Caig, Chair of the Scrapstore Trust says: “...
Exeter’s local charity Hospiscare is hoping that Christmas has come early after £3,540 were left in carrier bags outside one of its city shops.
Police, who are temporarily holding the cash, have appealed for the mystery donor to come forward to confirm that they intended the money to go to the charity. If the money is not claimed it will go to Hospiscare in six weeks time.
Glynis Atherton, Hospiscare chief executive, said: “The shop manager was amazed and immediately contacted the police who are looking after the wads of £20 used notes. This sum would provide almost a whole...
