Exeter

Cycle & Paddle with BBQ

Event Date: 
23/06/2013 - 9:00am to 6:00pm
Venue: 
Double Locks

This event is aimed at promoting the Samsung Bike Week and encouraging as many people to get on or get back on a bike for Sunday 23 June.

The day will start at 9am from the Double Locks Pub Garden, we will encourage people to park at the Canal Bridges car park and cycle to meet us. The ride will set off between 9am and 10am. A friendly team of staff from exeplore limited, the kayakhub and sustrans will be able to assist with cycling tuition and bike checks if required.

The route will follow the NCN route 34 to the Canal Bridges junction and then follow the NCN route 2 in...

Craft and Food Fair

Event Date: 
30/06/2013 - 10:00am
Venue: 
Poltimore House, Exeter

Plenty of live demonstrations with craft and food products for sale outside, in the Chapel and in the refurbished Project Centre Studio. Bring the whole family!

Refreshments will be available throughout the day.

This event is being held as part of the summer season of fundraising events for the restoration of historic Poltimore House.

Tickets £3, Friends of Poltimore House £2. £5 for 2 adults, children under 16 free.

The House will also be open to view from 12 noon - 4pm (£1 entry at the house door)

www.poltimore.org

Innovations Market

Event Date: 
28/06/2013 - 9:00am to 30/06/2013 - 4:00pm
Venue: 
Market Square, Guildhall Shopping Centre, Exeter

Exeter is one of the most vibrant and interesting cities in Great Britain which we firmly believe should be supported as a fabulous meeting and shopping destination with the new addition of this market regularly showcasing our local talent made up of small british businesses.

Selling high quality goods, craft furniture, fashion and food. Regularly featuring live music and family fun Sundays, the Innovations Market was Exeter's first weekly food street market round St Pancras Church in Exeter' Guildhall Shopping area. Eat well and for less than £5. Showcasing local talent from...

Johnny Marr

Event Date: 
28/06/2013 - 8:00pm
Venue: 
Exeter Phoenix

A rare chance to see the co-songwriter and guitarist of The Smiths who was recently awarded NME’s Godlike Genius award.

Tickets £18.

www.exeterphoenix.org.uk

An evening with Lola Lamour

Event Date: 
22/06/2013 - 6:30pm
Venue: 
Killerton Estate, Broadclyst, Exeter

An evening with Lola Lamour

Enjoy an evening of vintage luxury at an open air concert with 1940's singer Lola Lamour and her blue light boys.

Be entertained by Lola Lamour's vintage glamour and stunning vocal talents. Enjoy the cheely burlesque dancers and vintage DJ. Browse stalls selling fashion of the time and visit the pop up beauty parlor.

Tickets: £18.50 adult, £10 child.

More Information: Killerton, 01392 881345.

The Monkey & Crocodile Family Show

Event Date: 
26/06/2013 - 11:00am to 28/06/2013 - 3:00pm
Venue: 
Belmont Park, Newtown, Exeter

Metta Theatre takes over Belmont Park playground with Monkey & Crocodile, featuring aerial circus, acrobatics, live music, skateboards and 100 fresh apples. Based on a classic Indian fable of friendship, betrayal and cunning, this is a show for children and adults alike. The show opens following the success of Metta’s recent production Arab Nights (at the Bikeshed Theatre) and previous family show, puppet opera The Elephant's Child (Arcola Theatre/Trafalgar Studios).

Audiences enter a playground forest to find friendly Monkey monkeying around on the monkey bars with her new...

Tea with an Architect - meet Gabrielle Omar of The Apprentice

Don’t miss the chance to get free impartial advice and ideas for your build project over a cup of tea and a slice of cake at the Magdalen Chapter Hotel in Exeter. Meet RIBA architects who are offering complimentary design consultations as part of the National ‘Tea with an Architect’ scheme founded by Gabrielle Omar, RIBA architect and previous contestant on The Apprentice . Gabrielle will join the architects and give a talk at 5.15 pm on the profile of modern architecture as part of ‘Love Architecture’. Around 10 local architects are giving their time to offer help and advice on everything...

Exeter’s Judith Hamer selected as part of Standard Life GB Women’s Team for European Championships

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Fri, 06/07/2013 - 11:55am

The Standard Life GB Women’s Wheelchair Basketball Team is ready to send the world a warning signal at the 2013 European Championships (Frankfurt, 28 June-8 July 2013) with a young team selected to build upon last year’s Paralympic success.

The current European Bronze Medallists, Great Britain heads to Frankfurt at the end of the month with Head Coaches Nigel Smith and Joe Jayaratne having combined a strong mix of experience and fresh blood to create a formidable future threat.

With an average age of 24, the team includes three new faces from that of London 2012 with 14...

St Nicholas Catholic Primary School June Fayre

Event Date: 
22/06/2013 - 12:00pm
Venue: 
St Nicholas Catholic Primary School, Ringswell Avenue, Exeter

St Nicholas Catholic Primary School's fayre takes place between noon and 2.30pm.

Entertainment includes a bouncy castle, face painting, stalls, cupcake decorating, ice-cream, barbecue, toys, drinks and much more.

If you are able to help with donations for the fayre, the school are looking for good quality toys and books, new items for the rainbow stall, new summer items for hampers, bottles of wine and boxes of chocolates; or if any businesses can donate something for the promise auction, please email Michelle Johnson aamjohnson@btinternet.com

Children at WESC Foundation say a MASSIVE "Thank You" to all of the volunteers!

During National Volunteers' Week, the children and young people at WESC wanted to extend a MASSIVE thanks to the scores of volunteers that work with WESC.

Take a look at the video and if you feel inspired to give some of your time or want to find out how you can help WESC, then please do get in touch - we are always looking for more volunteers to join our happy team!

For more information, please contact Helen Smith : hsmith@wescfoundation.ac.uk or call 01392 454 208.

Thank you.

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