Dorchester-based independent, family-owned developer C G Fry & Son toasts the success of two of their site managers receiving awards in the South West regional finals of the NHBC (National House Building Council) ‘Pride in the Job’ 2013 in the medium house builder category. Steve Walker was announced as the South West regional winner for The Duchy of Cornwall Poundbury development in Dorchester and colleague Adrian White has won the Seal of Excellence for Wyndham Place in Tisbury, Wiltshire; his first site for C G Fry.
Pride in the Job is the only UK-wide competition dedicated...
DanSci Dance Studio participants are all set to dance for five hours to help children survive their first five years. To celebrate the launch of Exeter’s first independent professional dance studio on 13 October 2013, DanSci Dance Studio in Guinea Street will be holding a five-hour Ultimate Danceathon event to raise money for Save the Children. Dancers in the local area are invited to come along, get their dancing shoes on and donate what they can to help children around the world survive their vulnerable first five years. Event organiser Ava Barron Thomas, Director of DanSci Dance Studio...
The Student Lock-In is set to return to Princesshay Shopping Centre for the third year running on Wednesday 2 October from 18.30-21.00. The shopping centre will be closed for exclusive use by students from Exeter and the surrounding area for one night only.
Over 30 shops and restaurants will be keeping their doors open while students indulge with brands such as Topshop/Topman, Superdry, Schuh, New Look and River Island. The DJ truck will be creating a party atmosphere for student shoppers and retailers involved.
Students will not only enjoy the benefit of exclusive...
This autumn, Exeter will host four new live performance experiences made, commissioned or produced by Kaleider. Taking place in public spaces throughout the city – from Exeter Central Library to the Guildhall – and all of them interruptive, and testing the boundaries of audience experience, the events offer something meaningful in everyday surroundings.
Kaleider makes the effort to continually ask the question ‘what can we do together that we couldn’t do apart? to that end artists, academics and scientists have been brought together to imagine new works that begin to look towards a...
To coincide with Hospice Care Week (7th-11th October) and World Hospice & Palliative Care Day (12th October), local charity Hospiscare is announcing its plans to build a state-of-the-art day hospice in Honiton. Offering patients, families and carers easy access to a multi-disciplinary medical, health and social care team in one location, the new day hospice will provide invaluable services and support for the whole East Devon region.
Hospiscare currently runs day hospices in Exeter, Tiverton and Seaton Hospital. The building of the new East Devon Day Hospice is being made...
On Sunday 6 October 2013 supporters and volunteers from Exeter Axhayes Cats Protection Adoption Centre will be doing a charity skydive in aid of the adoption centre.
All funds raised will go directly to help the cats and kittens in our care. (150+ at current figures).
To donate you can text "PURR50" and the amount to 70070 (e.g PURR50£5) or visit http://www.justgiving.com/axhayes-skydive
The skydive takes place at 2pm on Sunday 6th October 2013 at Dunkeswell Airfield Nr Honiton.
The adoption centre are always looking for volunteers and people to join our "...
Princesshay Shopping Centre has partnered up with the MS Society to support people affected by multiple sclerosis (MS), by hosting the Big Orange Drop Abseil on Thursday 31st October from 12 noon until 7pm.
Princesshay and the MS Society are very keen for all to get involved and aim to raise as much money as possible. So if descending a massive 80 feet on Halloween sounds like your kind of thing and you’re over 12 years old, the centre would love to hear from you!
Isca Outdoor will be providing the essential equipment, fully qualified instructors and ground level training...
Hip Hop Psych - an evening of dance with just4funkproductions ( www.just4funkproductions.com )
Hip Hop Psych Co-founded by Dr Akeem Sule and Dr Becky Inkster Hip-hop culture is a powerful vehicle for raising awareness about mental health. It is rich with references to psychiatric illnesses that have not been explored, dissected and documented until now. Hip Hop Psych act are the interface that links hip-hop with mental health.
The Exeter Garden Railway Show is the largest of its kind in the far South West and makes a fabulous day out for all the family.
The aim of the show is to promote the garden railway hobby from O gauge to Scale 3 and everything in between.
The 2013 show will be the South Devon Garden Railway Group’s 13th and promises to be bigger and better than ever with over 60 layouts and trade stands promised in more than 2000 sq metres of exhibition space.
There will be lots of operating live steam, electric and vintage exhibition layouts in standard and narrow gauges as well as...
John Grant (born 1968) is an American singer-songwriter. Formerly associated with the Denver-based alternative rock band The Czars in the 1990s and early 2000s, he launched a career as a solo artist in 2010.
It’s been an extraordinary journey for John Grant, from a point where he thought he would never make music again or escape a life of substance abuse to winning awards and accolades, collaborating with Sinead O’Connor, Rumer and Hercules and Love Affair and having his music featured in the award-winning film Weekend.
