Exeter City Football Club will be making clear its opposition to homophobia in football at its home game with Cambridge United next week. (Tuesday 10 February). The match has been designated as the Club’s annual ‘Football v Homophobia’ fixture – a move welcomed by the Exeter City Supporters’ Trust and its One Game One Community (OGOC) Group and the Club’s Football in the Community scheme. The OGOC Group is organising a series of initiatives at the match and is delighted to be welcoming guests from Exeter Pride,University of Exeter LGBTQ+ Society and the Devon Lions, the local gay friendly...
An Exeter primary school is fostering pioneering international links with schools across Europe. Redhills primary school already has established links with Tanzania. Now it is fostering new links with Spain and Latvia.
Redhills has been linked with the Andres Garcia Soler School in Andalucía in Spain and Rigas Klasiska gimnazija in Latvia’s largest city, Riga.
The two-year project between the schools was set up through the European Commission’s Erasmus Plus programme, which aims to improve schools, training and youth work in Europe.
The Met Office’s £100m supercomputer is set to shake up the Exeter office market as businesses look to relocate their operations to the region, according to leading property consultancy JLL.
Demand for space at the Exeter Science Park, adjoining Exeter Gateway and nearby Skypark is expected to soar as business owners seek to benefit from opportunities to collaborate and form partnerships with the Met Office.
These predictions, revealed today (February 4) at JLL’s South West Market Review, themed ‘smart future,’ come after a slow year for the Exeter office market, where...
The Exeter Dementia Action Alliance has now been established in Exeter with the aim to develop awareness of dementia and dementia support within businesses and other organisations across the city.
Over the next 10 years dementia will increase significantly from the existing 850,000 people nationwide currently with a diagnosis.
Community initiatives like these aspire to raise awareness across the city. Currently there are 26 alliances across the South West.
This work will be guided by needs based strategies which will involve the voices of those with dementia and...
Thirty businesses in Devon and Somerset have received around £800,000 of grant money to help boost the region’s economy and create jobs.
Funds were secured in 2012 by Devon County Council from Defra (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) and the RDPE (Rural Development Programme for England) for the Heart of the South West Rural Enterprise Grant Scheme at the beginning of last year.
84 jobs will have been created by March 2015 and a further 33 by March 2017 totalling 117 giving a GVA (Gross Value Added) increase of £4.9m by March 2017
Devon law firm Kitsons has teamed up with Exeter City Football Club to offer supporters of Exeter City the opportunity to make or update their Will, in return for a donation to the Club’s charity arm, Football in the Community.
Through the scheme, for every new will completed by the Private Client team at Kitsons Solicitors in Exeter, the firm will donate a proportion of its fees for those wills to the Football in the Community Charity.
Football in the Community is an award winning registered charity, established 24 years ago and now managed by former Grecians player, and...
The Lympstone based South West Comms Band will again be performing at one of the most popular charity events on the Devon musical calendar. Led by new musical director Rich Harvey, they will take to the stage for the fifth Classics Galore! concert.
Classics Galore! is an extravaganza of entertainment that features familiar and uplifting music performed by a 200-hundred strong ensemble - a full orchestra, the Lympstone brass band and two choral societies.
The event is staged to raise money for local cancer charity FORCE and this year’s concert will be at the University of...
People are being encouraged to ensure they don’t miss their chance to vote in this year’s elections.
Exeter City Council is urging any local residents not yet registered to vote, to go online now and register. National Voter Registration Day, which encourages people to get involved in the democratic process by ensuring they are registered to vote, is being held on 5 February, although voter registration can take place at any time.
There are less than 100 days until voters go to the polls to elect a Member of Parliament for the Exeter and East Devon constituencies. Local...
Sivu is a singer-songwriter known for his tremulous quaver and was last seen supporting Nick Mulvey on tour in Exeter. Sounding like a one-man Wild Beasts, Sivu’s music captures the soaring, wide-screen quality of Arcade Fire, and the distorted, aggressive guitars of Radiohead circa-‘Creep’. Definitely one to watch this year.
He’s managed by ATC (Nick Cave, Laura Mvula), and he’s about to be signed to a major to work on an album with Alt-J’s producer Charlie Andrew, on the back of a couple of singles that occupy the polite middle ground between An Awesome Wave’s idiosyncratic indie...
WildWise an organisation in Devon specialised in offering nature connection events and courses, is launching a new mentoring program for teenage girls, called WildTime.
Run by a team of experienced and qualified outdoors women, this exciting and unique program aims to offer young women an adventurous and enriching experience during this transitional time of their lives. The girls will safely experience the physical challenges of the outdoors from canoeing, wild walking and bushcraft to natural horsemanship, environmental arts plus much more, whilst deepening their sense of self,...
