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Charity celebrates success with fundraising ball

GLITZ and glamour were the order of the day, when local charity, Hollywell Housing Trust, celebrated their third birthday and thanked their supporters by throwing a festive fundraising ball.

The ball, held at Rockbeare Manor, just outside Exeter, came at the end of what has been a mammoth year for the Trust, which finds homes for vulnerable adults with learning disabilities and autism, in privately rented accommodation throughout Devon and Cornwall. Hollywell sources suitable property and then provides the vulnerable person with the housing and tenancy support they need to live...

Free Christmas Crafting Workshops

Event Date: 
07/12/2017 - 12:00pm to 3:30pm
Venue: 
Exeter, St Sidwell's Centre

Christmas is just around the corner and the Positive People team are getting festive by holding Christmas crafting workshops across Devon. The Positive People project is funded by the Big Lottery Fund and the European Social Fund and aims to help people get socially and digitally connected.

In these free workshops, participants can get involved with a range of activities including making wreaths and snow globes, designing Christmas cards and T-shirts and making their own tree decorations. At some venues, there is also the opportunity to try out cake decorating and build a Virtual...

Kirstie Allsopp in Waterstones Exeter!

Event Date: 
09/12/2017 - 12:00pm

Come and meet Kirstie Allsopp, who will be signing copies of her new cook book:

KIRSTIE'S REAL KITCHEN

Saturday 9th December at 12 noon.

Waterstones Exeter, 252 High Street (by John Lewis)

To reserve a signed copy, please ring 01392 423044, visit www.waterstones.com/events or ask in-store!

Exeter Chamber of Commerce celebrates 150th Anniversary

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Mon, 11/27/2017 - 6:21am

Exeter Chamber of Commerce celebrated their 150th Exeter Anniversary in style with 360 people attending the annual Exeter Business Dinner which took place on Friday 17th November at Sandy Park Conference Centre.

Charlie and AJ Courtenay, Earl and Countess of Devon, gave the main address of the evening, sharing their vision for Powderham Castle in the future, as well as an insight into the ancient family’s part in the city and region’s history.

The Chamber was toasted by Alexander Hetjes, Mayor of Bad Homburg, the German town which Exeter is twined with. Mayor Hetjes...

Special Performance Promises Surprises For City Centre shoppers

SHOPPERS in Exeter city centre this December will be treated to a one-off musical and theatrical spectacular – all to raise awareness of youth homelessness.

Exeter-based charity Community Housing Aid is raising the profile of youth homelessness this Christmas through its project, Nightstop Devon, and in partnership with Widsith & Deor Storytelling Theatre and Urban Flow Street Dance.

People will be invited to take a break from their Christmas shopping and join the team from Nightstop Devon in Princesshay Square (near to Debenhams) on Saturday, December 9 from 2pm until...

The River Exe and flooding will be the topic of conversation at Exeter's RAMM

The River Exe and flooding will be the topic of conversation at a special event on Friday 10 November at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery in Exeter.

Local residents living in flood risk areas have been invited.

‘Conversations Between Floods’ forms part of a special public programme of artist commissions linked to the Exe Riverside Valley Park and has evolved alongside the flood defence scheme currently being delivered by the Environment Agency. The free afternoon event (1:30pm – 5:30pm) is open to all. Tickets have gone quickly but some are still available...

Recruit Princesshay hosts Christmas Jobs and Skills fair

Princesshay will host its second jobs and skills fair this November, bringing local employers and jobseekers together, along with support and training services, to help local people into work.

From 10am – 4pm on Wednesday 1st November, a range of businesses will showcase vacancies on offer at Princesshay over the festive season. Over 30 stores and restaurants including Superdry, Starbucks, MAC, & Café Rouge in Princesshay are recruiting in advance of Christmas and the Recruit Princesshay team will be on hand to help match job seekers and available posts.

The fair will...

A Wild Night In

Event Date: 
28/10/2017 - 6:00pm
Venue: 
RAMM, Queen Street, Exeter

Help bring the museum to life after dark. Go dressed in an animal onesie or costume to watch a spectacular film, enjoy activities and explore RAMM with the lights down low.

Ticket price includes popcorn and drink.

It’s going to be a wild night in!

Doors open 6pm Activities 6.30 to 8.30pm £8.50, under 3s free

All ages welcome. Children must be accompanied by a full paying adult (minimum 1 adult per 6 children)

Book your tickets now

Snuggle up with popcorn to watch the award-winning Flight of the Butterflies. This natural history epic is a...

Health and wellbeing charity puts best foot forward for the Great West Run

EXETER health and wellbeing charity the CITY Community Trust is standing by its values and has 30 runners training for the Great West Run – the largest team from one single organisation to take part in this year’s race.

And the charity is supporting two other causes – Exeter Sports Fund and Children’s Hospice South West.

The CITY Community Trust (CCT), which works in partnership with Exeter City Football Club, delivers health, education, wellbeing and physical activity programmes to more than 45,000 members of the community every year.

And to reflect the programmes...

Your guide to What's On in and around Exeter this weekend

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Fri, 09/01/2017 - 12:14pm

Your guide to What’s On in and around Exeter this weekend (1-3 September).

THEATRE

Rime Friday & Saturday, Nothcott Theatre, Exeter Exeter Northcott Theatre’s Young Company re-launches with this re-imagining of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Following a week long residency exploring the themes of Coleridge’s classic work, the young actors combine the original text with physical theatre techniques to present a version of the poem which speaks to them as 21st Century teenagers. https://exeternorthcott.co.uk/

Not Our Turn Saturday,...

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