exeter Mid & East devon samaritans

Exeter Choral Society - a celebratory concert

Event Date: 
09/05/2018 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
St James Church, Mount Pleasant Road, Exeter EX4 7AH
Join Exeter Choral Society on 9 May 2018 for the first concert of our 75th year.

The choir started as Whipton Choral Society in 1943, when Exeter was a garrison city, to provide entertainment and community involvement for locals and visting troops. The choir now has over 100 singers and continues to grow, regularly performing to packed audiences.

In May we'll be singing Handel's Coronation Anthems , including 'Zadok the Priest,' Mozart's Coronation Mass and Haydn's Missa brevis Sancti Johannis de Deo .

Our conductor Laurence Blyth is now in his 10th year as our Musical...

Exeter prisoners run, row and ride for charity

This isn’t a typical prison story: instead it’s an amazing achievement by 10 people in HMP Exeter who in just one day rowed the English Channel, ran up Ben Nevis and rode a stage of the Tour de France, raising hundreds of pounds for a local charity.

Two teams of five - a total of eight prisoners and two prison officers - did not leave the city centre jail while doing this task, of course, but instead undertook the gruelling challenges in the gymnasium.

Each of the prisoners who undertook the challenge is a Samaritans volunteer Listener, specially trained to offer emotional...