RGB Building Supplies’ Well Built Community Fund aims to help a number of community groups to complete projects that they wouldn’t otherwise be able to do by giving away £1,000 worth of building materials every other month.
Having recently supported a youth group, an animal welfare centre and a project to help the homeless, RGB is now asking for groups that provide health and fitness facilities to those in their local community.
Perhaps a group would like to update its changing facilities or requires materials to create an area to use for sporting activities - whatever the...
Ben Moon says he can feel a mood change with the Exeter Chiefs camp as the start of the new Aviva Premiership season draws ever closer.
Rob Baxter’s side wrap up their pre-season campaign this weekend with the final instalment of this year’s Westcountry Challenge Cup – a competition the Devon club have already secured with a game to spare.
Last weekend’s narrow 31-33 victory over Gloucester ensured the Chiefs made it three wins from three in pre-season, having already seen off the Cherry and Whites and Bath on home soil in recent weeks.
FORCE is relaunching its support group for younger women with breast cancer.
From November 11, drop-in sessions will be held at the charity’s Support and Information Centre in Exeter on the second Wednesday of each month from 1.30pm-3pm.
Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer in women but it is less common in the under 50s for whom it presents specific issues.
The Younger Women’s Breast Cancer Support Group (under 50s) offers an opportunity to talk in a supportive and informal environment.
For more information, contact FORCE Oncology Support...
Devon County Council is calling for potential parents who want to adopt to consider fostering first under new plans to help reduce disruption to children in care.
Babies and children, who are likely to be adopted, can wait months in foster care sometimes moving from carer to carer.
Devon Adoption has introduced the Government-led ‘foster to adopt’ scheme to protect these children from experiencing multiple moves within the care system and provide them with good quality, uninterrupted and consistent care, while detailed assessments of their birth family are completed and the...
Interserve, the international support services and construction group, laid down a challenge for the students of St Luke’s Sports and Science College in Exeter to design, cost, programme and present back a solution for a new sustainable swimming pool to be built within the College campus.
Every year the College holds a Challenge Day for their students where the whole school takes part in activities focused on developing the students’ life skills.
This year’s Challenge Day had all 1000 students working in their tutor groups to produce a bid for a new swimming pool. Students...
House sales continue to pick up across the South West in September supported by a modest improvement in the availability of mortgage finance, according to the latest RICS UK Residential Market Survey.
Across the region, 19% more chartered surveyors saw a rise in agreed sales, with 23% more respondents expecting a rise in sales expectations over the next three months. This trend in agreed sales outstrips the national rate, with 14% more surveyors reporting a rise in agreed sales across the UK.
The stronger sales trend in the UK is broadly reflective of an upturn in demand...
2015 marks the 21st anniversary of the formation of Mugenkyo; over two decades of rigorous touring, performing and teaching have cemented their place as one of the most successful and enduring Taiko groups in Europe.
This latest show, which attracted a host of five star reviews at the Edinburgh, will feature mysterious masked choreography interwoven with an almighty musical force that will leave the unforgettable feeling of rhythm pounding through your chest for weeks to come.
Mugenkyo’s modernisation of the ancient art of Taiko is encapsulated in a spellbinding display of...
On Wednesday 30 September, 60 budding Year 6 mathematicians were welcomed to Exeter School to get involved in a morning of Perplexing Puzzles. Pupils were from St Michael’s Primary, Heavitree, West Hill Primary School, Clyst St Mary Primary School, Ide Primary School and Exeter Junior School had fun solving a range of fun and magical puzzles. A group of Exeter School A Level Lower Sixth mathematicians worked with small groups of Year 6 pupils encouraging and supporting them with their maths! Pupils particularly enjoyed the mathmagician Mr Malone-Lee and the matchstick magic of Miss...
A project which is working to secure a future for one of Europe’s most endangered bat species has been awarded £707,000 of National Lottery funding.
The Devon Greater Horseshoe Bat Project, which has received the grant via the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), will now work for the next five years across the county to secure the long term future of one of the rarest animals in Northern Europe. The project is being led by the conservation charity Devon Wildlife Trust in a partnership involving 18 other organisations.
The project’s manager is Ed Parr Ferris: "We’re delighted to...
Last week, a greatly prized bike was stolen from a resident at a Buddhist Centre in Exeter.
The bike, which was chained securely to a metal pipe, belonged to a keen cyclist who was devastated to find a destroyed chain and no bike in the morning.
The cyclist has started a campaign to find the stolen bike.
The distinctive bike looks like that pictured below and the frame number is A350804388; if you see it please call the police on 101 and quote the crime reference number CR068034/15.
The resident has not yet given up hope for its safe return, but has started...
