Unbelievably, this will be our 10th annual beer festival and it gets bigger and better every year.
This year we've got 22 real ales on offer (as well as a couple of ciders and a ginger beer), a fantastic line-up of live music all day and of course some tasty hot and cold food to soak it all up. Yeoford is on the Exeter-Barnstaple train line ((only 20 mins from St. David's), so there's no need for anyone to drive and everyone can join in the fun.
It's only £3 entry, which includes a souvenir glass and all proceeds go towards the Yeoford Community Association.
The University of Exeter has launched its most ambitious philanthropic Campaign to date to reinforce its position as one of the leading research institutions worldwide.
The ‘Making the Exceptional Happen’ Campaign will raise £60 million by 2020 to support research into shared global challenges, including climate change, chronic disease and food security. The funds raised will leverage a further £100 million from research and corporate partners over this period.
The Campaign will also secure 60,000 hours from 6,000 volunteers to help enhance Exeter’s outstanding student...
Crisp Professional Development, Exeter’s long-established learning and development provider, have chosen Children’s Hospice South West as their 2017 Charity of the Year.
The charity, which supports life-limited children and their families, has 3 hospices in Devon, Cornwall and Bristol, providing respite, palliative and end of life care.
Crisp Professional Development will be offering financial support by donating money from every Open Course sale throughout 2017, but will also be actively fundraising for the charity.
Managing Director Shaun Durham said: “The whole...
Exeter and Plymouth based LHC Architecture + Urbanism has pledged a year-long programme of fundraising events in aid of the Children’s Hospice South West.
image004.jpgStaff from the award-winning architecture firm voted for Children’s Hospice South West to be the company’s charity of the year, after having designed two of charity’s hospices in the past 20 years.
The charity was founded in 1991 by parents Eddie and Jill Farwell, who experienced first-hand the urgent need for hospice care for children in the South West. Children’s Hospice South West now has three hospices...
Leading independent education recruitment specialists Class People are helping to raise awareness of the teaching profession this week, by taking part in Barnardo’s ‘Hat Day’. The charity’s aim is to encourage young people to use their imagination to be whoever they want to be, whether it be a fireman, an astronaut - or a teacher. With their extensive work with Barnardo’s Children’s Centres, Class People are keen to show their support in new ways to help the worthwhile cause. As providers for supply teachers and early years practitioners across the South-West, South-East and Midlands,...
This month marks the start of the Red Triangle Campaign, which aims to eradicate the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM).
The national campaign will run until International Women’s Day on March 8 using a symbolic small, downward facing red triangle to denote solidarity against FGM.
Solicitor Hannah Myers from The Family Law Company, explained the background: “FGM is any procedure that involves the injury to, or partial or total removal of female genitalia for non-medical reasons.
“It isn’t pleasant to think about, but the practice – which is predominant in...
We all have a dream engagement ring; that ring we just happen to find ourselves looking at on the internet every day. So, entrusting our partners to pick out that perfect engagement ring is pretty nerve-wracking experience. Although the men are choosing the ring as a promise of commitment to their partners, it is the women that have to have to wear that ring for the rest of their lives.
77 Diamonds presents “The Perfect Match”, an experiment designed to test couples to see how well they know each other, and how well they know their partner's taste in jewellery.
Leading West Country Independent Estate Agency, Wilkinson Grant & Co, will be supporting YMCA Exeter in several large fundraising initiatives throughout 2017.
This will include the annual Sleep Easy event at Exeter Castle on Saturday 4th March, the extension of an existing campaign to make special donations to the charity and through additional funding support of the charities ‘Changing Rooms, Changing Lives’ campaign.
The estate agency, which has offices in Exeter and Topsham, is entering a team into this year’s Sleep Easy, which will see around 300 people spend a...
Wonford Community Centre held an open day at its recently refurbished Phoenix Suite on Saturday. Jo Evans, community champion from the Tesco Exeter Vale store and colleagues from the store team went along on the day to hand out a variety of refreshments. The Wonford Community Centre is a charity that provides activities, clubs and events for the benefit of the local community. Since Devon Youth Services ended the Phoenix Youth Centre had been empty. The Trustees of Wonford Community and Learning Centre have now taken on the lease of the building and made improvements to the premises. The...
Bridge Road in Exeter will be reduced to one lane tonight (Thursday 9 February) with temporary traffic lights in place overnight from 11pm to 5am.
The lane closure is needed while work is carried out on the new streetlights on the downstream side of Countess Wear Bridge which may need to have ‘shields’ fitted to the back of them, to ensure that the light they provide is limited to the highway and does not cause light pollution to the river and the outside of the bridge. Bats roosting within the bridge structure are currently hibernating and, as a legally protected species, their...
