Social enterprises in Exeter are being celebrated at the weekend as part of a nationwide initiative - Social Saturday.
Saturday (10 October) marks a UK-wide day of activity to celebrate, raise awareness and buy from social enterprises.
What sets these businesses aside from traditional businesses is that they trade for a social or an environmental purpose. They reinvest or donate their profits to meet this purpose.
Exeter City Council is recognising the importance of social enterprises both to the local economy and to the city’s culture by getting involved in the day...
Earlier this week I found myself on a train between Exeter and Birmingham which was stopped at Gloucester because of a gas leak and where a two hour wait and chaos ensued. Eventually I arrived at my destination almost 3 hours late and the fragmentation of our once effective railway system is very apparent.
It is clear that the train operators and station companies do not always have contingency plans and, as usual in such situations, official communications are very poor with nobody seeming to know what is going on.
What really happens is that the institutional life of the...
Phonic FM, supported by Exeter City Council, has commissioned four special ‘audio portraits’ to mark the city’s moment on the world stage.
Rugby Stories will be broadcast on 106.8FM in Exeter and online at http://phonic.fm/
In this programme, Encounter Theatre & Therapy (in association with CEDA) follows a group of people with learning disabilities as they participate in Exeter’s host city festivities.
For more information and to listen again, see http://phonic.fm/rugbystories
Share your thoughts online using the hashtag #RugbyStories
Phonic FM, supported by Exeter City Council, has commissioned four special ‘audio portraits’ to mark the city’s moment on the world stage.
Rugby Stories will be broadcast on 106.8FM in Exeter and online at http://phonic.fm/
In this programme, Chris Mockridge and Greg Newman follow a match day, from early morning until closing time, meeting the behind-the-scenes characters who make the event happen.
For more information and to listen again, see http://phonic.fm/rugbystories
Share your thoughts online using the hashtag #RugbyStories
Phonic FM, supported by Exeter City Council, has commissioned four special ‘audio portraits’ to mark the city’s moment on the world stage.
Rugby Stories will be broadcast on 106.8FM in Exeter and online at http://phonic.fm/
In this programme, Neil Rose explores anticipation and preparation, comparing the rituals that competitors and spectators undertake before an important game.
For more information and to listen again, see http://phonic.fm/rugbystories
Share your thoughts online using the hashtag #RugbyStories
Phonic FM, supported by Exeter City Council, has commissioned four special ‘audio portraits’ to mark the city’s moment on the world stage.
Rugby Stories will be broadcast on 106.8FM in Exeter and online at http://phonic.fm/
In this programme, Alice Armstrong and Shelley Hodgson lead you on a sonic journey from the moors into Exeter, exploring team spirit and personal achievement.
For more information and to listen again, see http://phonic.fm/rugbystories
Share your thoughts online using the hashtag #RugbyStories
Community Equality Disability Action (CEDA) based in Exeter has today launched a new fundraising pack which encourage potential new supporters to raise money for the disability charity.
Craig Bowden from CEDA, comments: “For a long time now we have been considered a great secret and its now we begin to let the secret out. CEDA work with over 250 disabled people a year and the family and friends are aware of the work CEDA do, now it’s time to get the other 750,000 people in Devon knowing the same”.
The fundraising pack includes success stories from those who have already...
The Stoke Hill Community Association is appealing for green-fingered residents to pitch-in and help create a new community garden in the imposing grounds of St Katherine’s Priory on the 26-27 September.
The project, which is backed by the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), will be part of an open weekend at the Priory designed to bring the community together to share existing skills, learn new ones and turn an area of grey to green as part of the national Greening Grey Britain campaign.
RHS experts will be on-hand over the weekend to offer training, advice and insight to...
Using Facebook and Twitter to promote the newly branded Arts Quarter of Teignmouth centred around Northumberland Street is the focus for the September social media cafe.
The event is being held on Tuesday 29 September at The Oystercatchers Cafe from 5.30-7.30pm.
Cafe founder, Mandy Pearse, will be showing how local traders and organisations can harness the potential of facebook to promote not only their shop or venue but also market the thriving arts quarter.
She says:“We have an amazing set of creative businesses and arts organisations in this part of Teignmouth....
Local people from across South Devon are being invited to come along to two information events being held by the trustees of Pavilions Teignmouth, the new arts and community centre.
On Sunday 13 September from 3-5pm at the Teign Heritage Centre there will be a chance to hear all the latest about progress with the centre currently under construction. A short presentation by the trustees at 3.10pm will be followed by the opportunity to ask questions.
A drop-in event is also being held on Wed 16 September at the Methodist Church Hall from 3.30pm - 7.00pm. The Trustees will be...
