Library users in Topsham will benefit from extended opening hours thanks to additional support provided by volunteers. From 7 September the opening hours will increase from 15 to 19.5 with the library open until 6pm every Monday and Thursday for ‘Library Extra’ sessions hosted by Estuary League of Friends volunteers.
Cllr Roger Croad, Devon County Council's Cabinet Member with responsibility for the library service, said:
"These new opening hours are excellent news for residents in Topsham, especially children and families who now have an extra afternoon to use the library...
Come and join the trail around Heavitree of stall holders selling a range of items from preloved items to specialist craft and superbly yummy baked goodies. This is a wonderful way to get to know your neighbourhood and your community as a social event with the potential to find hidden treasure on the stalls as you go!
Join us at http://www.jumbletrail.com/event/EX12PH2015
RGB Building Supplies’ Well Built Community Fund has been giving away £1,000 worth of building materials every other month to various different groups since its launch in May 2014.
Now the builders merchant is asking Exeter based charities and projects that support the homeless to nominate themselves to receive the grant.
With a 165-year history, RGB’s Community Fund is a way of giving something back to the community that has been such a support to them.
So, if a group needs materials to update a shelter, make repairs to a building, or perhaps help to create a new...
Exeter City Football Club have once again celebrated diversity in the local community by holding a football tournament that attracted players from across the globe, yesterday (Sunday 26 July). Torquay based Crispy Pigs beat Not a Kalou from Ipplepen 2-1 in a closely fought final. Ashley Dewdney scored both goals for the winners as they came from behind to edge victory. The tournament, now in its 11th year, encourages participation from local community teams and especially black and minority ethnic players. Today’s event saw players from many different parts of the world including Morocco,...
Exeter CVS has been recognised as a Beacon for Change by BIG Assist, a lottery-funded programme to strengthen social enterprise and voluntary sector infrastructure, and to build social action.
Beacons for Change are organisations which have benefited from BIG Assist support and are now recognised as leading the way on adapting to changing circumstances, developing new approaches to meeting community need, and building cross-sector relationships.
As a Beacon for Change, Exeter CVS will become part of a national network with opportunities to inform policymakers, funders and...
Kitsons Solicitors has shown its ongoing commitment to making a difference to local people by awarding YMCA Exeter £1,000 to help offer training and work opportunities to those in need.
The grant will support the group to work with disengaged young people in Exeter to gain an accredited qualification, while helping to develop confidence, self-esteem and raise their future aspirations.
Kitsons, which has offices in Exeter, Torquay and Plymouth, set up a Fund with local charity Devon Community Foundation a number of years ago to enable the firm to support community...
Exeter has been recognised for its pioneering work to promote healthy and sustainable food and has become the 40th member of the Sustainable Food Cities Network, one of the fastest growing social movements in the UK today.
Exeter joins cities such as Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh and London that have made exemplary progress in improving access to good food and in tackling key issues like food poverty and waste. Exeter Community Food Network - which is a growing partnership of organisations that includes the City Council, businesses and community groups - will be sharing Exeter’s...
Wednesday 1st July 2015, 13.00-15.30 (Library and Archives, Palace Gate)
Your opportunity to experience the oldest book of English literature in existence – right here in Exeter!
Written in about 970AD, the Exeter Book is the oldest of only four surviving books of Anglo-Saxon literature anywhere in the world. Much admired for its beautiful writing and the quality of its verse, this unique book of poetry has been at Exeter Cathedral since Leofric, the first Bishop of Exeter, gave it to his church in around 1072. Within its 246 pages are some 40 poems and nearly 100 poetic...