Activities at Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (RAMM) using the museum and its objects to boost people’s wellbeing were recognised with an award from Arts & Health South West, an umbrella group promoting and supporting arts activities to benefit people’s health.
Like RAMM, Arts & Health South West believes that the arts, creativity and the imagination are agents of wellness, helping keep the individual resilient, aiding recovery and fostering a flourishing society. RAMM’s wellbeing programme uses the museum collections to help people make the most of...
When Crediton-based Hedgerow Print installed a new order processing system back in 2013, they never imagined that barely three years later they would be processing the 10,000th order to go through that system.
“Our order processing system automatically numbers each order and we realised a few weeks ago that we were approaching the number 10,000 and thought it might be nice to mark that milestone,” said Gary Radford, Managing Director at the Company.
In order to mark the event, Hedgerow Print contacted all their customers and contacts to let them know of the plan to award a...
This is the final day of East Devon Heath Week - so join us to experience this heathland wonderland.
Aylesbeare is full of colourful creatures on the wing, we have more butterflies and damselfly than any other RSPB reserve - impressive! Join our guides to step into this world as we go on a hunt for these stunning insects.
Children must be accompanied by a responsible adult.
Booking essential. Click here to book via Eventbrite
This is the final day of East Devon Heath Week - so join us to experience this heathland wonderland.
Aylesbeare is full of colourful creatures on the wing, we have more butterflies and damselfly than any other RSPB reserve - impressive! Join our guides to step into this world as we go on a hunt for these stunning insects.
Children must be accompanied by a responsible adult.
Booking essential. Click here to book via Eventbrite
Award-winning West End producer Paul Taylor-Mills will be raising the curtain on his hugely popular Summer Play Festival at Sidmouth’s Manor Pavilion Theatre on Thursday (June 23) with a three-month run of productions featuring works from iconic playwrights including Coward, Wilde and Ayckbourn.
Theatregoers are in for a real treat this year with an amazing programme of 12 plays in as many weeks, which include such classics as The Ladykillers, Pygmalion, One Man, Two Guv’nors and Private Lives.
The town is bucking a national trend as the Manor Pavilion Theatre – owned and...
Exeter City Football Club will be remembering four former players who died during the Battle of the Somme at a special ceremony to be held at their St James Park war memorial.
The memorial service, in partnership with the Royal British Legion, will take place at 2pm on Friday 1 July. This is the exact centenary of the first day of the Battle of the Somme. That day alone saw 57,470 British casualties including 19,240 who were killed. Two Exeter City players - Fred Bailey and Evelyn Lintott died on this first day and two others Arthur Evans and Percy Worner during the rest of the...
Police are appealing for information after a large quantity of sentimental jewellery was stolen from a property in Dawlish.
Several gold and silver rings, necklaces, bracelets and anklets, similar to the items pictured, were taken during the burglary at a property in Badlake Hill on Wednesday 15 June, sometime between 8.10am and 7.20pm.
A sapphire and diamond gold eternity ring, a ruby and diamond gold ring, a silver necklace with a green Chinese letter pendant and a Rotary gents’ chronograph watch were among the items taken.
Three choirs present Summer Sing – “a joyous, uplifting evening of singing” – in Exeter on Friday, July 8, to help people with cancer and their families. Music Birds’ Exeter, Exminster and Topsham choirs will perform for holistic cancer charity Penny Brohn UK at St Matthew’s Hall, Lower Summerlands, from 8pm, doors at 7.30pm. Organiser Rob Carney, 35, of near Buckfastleigh, said: “Singing unites, creates community and uplifts. “The evening will be special – the choirs will perform a wonderfully eclectic mix of rock, Motown and gospel songs, and we’re planning a moment of playful audience...
On Thursday 17th June, Powderham Castle welcomed members of Teignmouth Art Society for the beginning of their summer sketching season.
This year, the event drew a record number of artists on the day, with 25 members attending. This included a mix of novice and experienced artists, with many taking inspiration from Powderham’s deer park.
The magical setting of Powderham Castle is a firm favourite with Teignmouth Art Society, who have visited Powderham at the start of their season for a number of years.
Des Maxwell Clark, Vice-Chairman of Teignmouth Art Society...
