Enjoy a morning foraging for mushrooms and learn about the different funghi to be found in the woods with our local funghi expert. Then relax and enjoy a delicious home-cooked lunch in the Coach House Restaurant.
Meet at Coach House Restaurant at 10.30am
Members £10 per person £5 for children (under 12)
Non-members £12 per person £7 for children (under 12). Price includes lunch (fixed menu) in the Coach House Restaurant.
Make your own bat box with the help of Escot’s Nature Rangers! Receive an information sheet about native bats and how to care for your bat box when you take it home with you at the end of the day.
Tim Walker Head of Office and Divisional Director of Brewin Dolphin’s Exeter office, looks at the advantages of Self Invested Personal Pensions.
Self Invested Personal Pensions or SIPPs have become increasingly popular in recent years among those looking to build up a pot of savings for their retirement. While SIPPs enjoy the same tax benefits as traditional pension schemes and work in a similar way, they can offer greater flexibility and give you access to a wider range of investments.
With standard personal pension schemes, your investments are usually managed for you...
Go along and celebrate the weird, wonderful and very messy things you can do in wellies!
• Design a welly • Plant a welly • The welly walk of goo! • Welly dancing (Riverdance was never like this!) • Smelly wellies - can you correctly identify the mystery filling! • Welly fashion parade (decorate your wellies and take part in our welly fashion parade with a prize for the winner)
Please remember to wear your wellies! Members free. Escot entry fee applies to non-members. There may be a small charge for some activities.
The Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust is among a handful of hospitals across the country to have been awarded Exemplar status for its Radiology department.
The prestigious status, conferred by the British Society of Interventional Radiology, has been given to only nine hospitals nationwide.
These hospitals have all demonstrated a commitment to improving quality and access to Interventional Radiology. One initiative by the RD&E radiology department that caught the BSIR’s attention was the redesigned patient information leaflets. The society is suggesting...
Neil Parish, MP for Tiverton and Honiton, has pledged to take action to support the 800,000 people living with dementia across the UK. Neil Parish joined 200 other MPs and representatives from Alzheimer’s Society in Portcullis House, Westminster on Tuesday 10th September to provide a handwritten statement of the action they will take to support people with dementia and their carers. Neil Parish pledged to help tackle the stigma attached to dementia and raise awareness to improve diagnosis rates in their constituency. Neil Parish said: “Devon is a beautiful county and many elderly people...
Leading legal firm Stephens Scown LLP continues to lead the field in Devon and Cornwall with the announcement of independent guide Legal 500 rankings for 2013.
The firm’s family law team has retained its number one position for the 6th year, making them the best in the region. The newly announced guide to the legal profession singles out Stephens Scown’s team for its childcare work: “with a primary focus on the child being evident”, recommending Michael Lowry and Jo Stone, with Liz Allen singled out as a “leading individual”.
Also achieving the highest ranking, compared to...
Tom Lemon at leading furniture retailer, DFS, in Exeter has completed an extreme outdoor challenge to raise money for BBC Children in Need as part of DFS’s endeavour to raise over £1 million for the charity this year.
Earlier this month, on Wednesday 11 September, Tom Lemon joined DFS colleagues to tackle the Olympic white water rafting course that saw Team GB capture Gold and Silver medals at last year’s Olympic Games. To donate to Tom Lemon and the DFS team, visit https://mydonate.bt.com/teams/dfs
Helen Normoyle, Director of Marketing at DFS, said: “We like to give...
