Cranbrook

Creating a Dementia Friendly generation

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Mon, 11/04/2019 - 11:20pm

What an informative and moving morning had by all at Cranbrook Education Campus.

The Exeter Dementia Action Alliance (EDAA) spent the morning at Cranbrook raising dementia awareness and inspiring action.

Sara and Barrie Carless who are living with dementia accompanied Gina Awad, Lead of the alliance as they delivered Dementia Friends sessions reaching 75 8-11 year olds. This was followed by an assembly presentation by Gina to the secondary students illustrating the work of the alliance and future visits to Cranbrook.

Louise Telford, Deputy Head, said: “The students...

Co Bikes are coming to Cranbrook and Honiton train stations

Two busy Devon railway stations, Cranbrook and Honiton, are to benefit from the installation of Co Bikes electric bike stations, allowing for seamless – and zero carbon – onward commuting options.

The investment by South Western Railway is due to them successfully securing over £1 million in grants from government, local authorities and third-party funding sources to improve cycle-rail connectivity across their network.

In Devon, match funding is through a partnership between Devon County Council and East Devon District Council, alongside the Exeter and East Devon...

Cranbrook town centre area. Photo: C Still Imaging.

Councils call for High Streets Fund for new towns

Council leaders have jointly called on government to extend funding to create and improve town centres in new towns.

East Devon District Council and Cranbrook Town Council Leaders have written to the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, Jake Berry MP, to request eligibility criteria for the Fund be changed to include new towns.

The £675 million Future High Streets Fund was launched in December 2018 to help modernise high streets and town centres. The fund was launched following recommendations from retail...

Cranbrook gears up for Tour of Britain

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Tue, 08/14/2018 - 12:12pm

Young people across Cranbrook have brought new meaning to the term ‘recycling’ by creating an eye-catching and colourful town-wide public art display from old bikes.

In all 14 bikes have been painted, decorated and placed around the town – and now visitors are being challenged to find them all. The bikes have been decorated by members of the Cranbrook Youth Group, Youth Genesis and students from Cranbrook Education Campus and St Martins Primary School, with each bike painted in the colours of one of the competing teams. It’s all part of preparations for when the Tour of Britain...

Flybe crew goes back to school

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Mon, 07/16/2018 - 7:15am

Flybe, Europe’s largest regional airline, headed to its local school, Cranbrook Education Campus yesterday (11th July 2018) with an enthusiastic team to inspire the next generation of recruits with a talk on aviation-related careers. Some 150 students aged 11 to 14 enjoyed getting up close and personal during an interactive talk with some of Flybe’s pilots, cabin crew and engineers who gave interesting insights into how they qualified for their particular role, the training they received, explained their own individual path to joining the airline – and what their day-to-day jobs involved....

Exeter and Cranbrook Sport England bid proves successful

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Tue, 12/05/2017 - 6:02am

Exeter and Cranbrook are jumping for joy after being chosen to trail-blaze new ways of getting people active for life. Sport England today (Tuesday 5 December) announced that Exeter and the East Devon new town of Cranbrook, are one of 12 places selected to work on a ground-breaking new approach to tackle inactivity in communities. Exeter and Cranbrook has been chosen by Sport England as a pilot area to work with on a bold new approach to build healthier, more active communities across England. Exeter and Cranbrook is one of only 12 places in England to be awarded Pilot status and the only...

Community consultation launched to help shape how Cranbrook develops over next 15 years

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Tue, 11/14/2017 - 3:43pm

Following last year’s ‘Issues and Options’ consultation, residents of Cranbrook and neighbouring parishes are being encouraged by East Devon District Council to comment on the ‘Preferred Approach’ to how Devon’s newest town will grow and develop, as part of an 8 week community consultation.

Anyone living or working in and around Cranbrook can have their say on ‘The Cranbrook Plan: Preferred Approach’ from Friday 10 November 2017 – Monday 8 January 2018.

East Devon District Council sifted through all the comments and suggestions from the previous round of consultation to...

Cranbrook ‘healthy town’ initiatives get underway

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Fri, 09/01/2017 - 11:24am

Initiatives to get Cranbrook residents fit and healthy are getting underway, after it was chosen as one of ten demonstrator sites for NHS England’s ‘Healthy New Towns’ programme.

The programme aims to put ‘health at the heart of new communities’, and radically rethink how we approach housing development.

Cranbrook has three times the national average of 0-4 year olds, and the programme will focus on developing a supportive environment to encourage healthy lifestyles from birth – whether that be the provision of cycle paths, bike storage and places to meet and socialise or...

Cranbrook Charity Fun Run

Event Date: 
16/09/2017 - 10:00am to 5:00pm
Venue: 
Cranbrook Country Park - off Burrough Fields

The Second annual Charity Fun Run in the new and growing town of Cranbrook. 1K, 2.5K and 5K circuits. We need to use circuits at the moment (2 circuits for 5K), this event tracks the country park and town as they grow over the next 16 years.

This is a chance to run the living history of the town being built just outside of Exeter.

Only a few stops on the Waterloo Line from Exeter and Honiton Sorry, no timings will be recorded. 1K course suitable for young children, buggy runners, etc.

Slight uneven ground in places 2.5 and 5K courses includes areas of uneven rough...

Wellbeing Reading win for Cranbrook Library

Residents of Cranbrook can now borrow a range of new books that support adult mental wellbeing from the town’s library, all of which have been paid for by the Cranbrook Healthy Town scheme.

The thirty new ‘Reading Well Books’ have been bought by Cranbrook Healthy Town and are part of a national scheme run by the Reading Agency to help support mental wellbeing.

The books valued at around £360 are on topics including common mental health conditions including anxiety, depression, phobias and some eating disorders and have been funded by NHS England’s Healthy New Town programme...

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