Exeter Northcott Theatre is delighted to announce that antiques expert and television presenter Tim Wonnacott will join its 50th anniversary gala line-up in November.
Best known for presenting BBC One’s Bargain Hunt, Tim will be the auctioneer at the 50th anniversary gala auction where audience members can bid on some exciting prizes yet to be announced.
Tim Wonnacott first started appearing regularly on television in the early 1990’s on the BBC Antiques Roadshow. Subsequently he became a regular expert on a number of BBC antiques shows including The Great Antiques Hunt,...
An RD&E physiotherapist and three other Exeter women are set to take on the challenge of their lives by rowing more than 3,000 nautical miles across the Atlantic Ocean in record time.
Rosalind West, a Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist at the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, will be joined by team-mates student Abby Jones, Scientific Consultant Kate Salmon and Landscape Architect Kirsty Barker to take on the gruelling Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge in December 2018.
The quartet plan to row unaided across the world’s second largest ocean in less than 40 days...
Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW) is delighted to be one of the chosen charities for the Exeter City Community Trust Santa Run in Exeter on Sunday 3rd December, and is looking for volunteers to help marshal the event.
Volunteers would be needed from 8.00am – 10.30am on the day of the run which starts and finishes in Princesshay, so you can then continue the festive spirit with a bit of Christmas shopping at the Christmas market afterwards!
In addition, the charity also has ten free charity places for the run available. Sponsorship raised from CHSW runners could help to...
YMCA Exeter Job Club staff and their trained volunteers are teaming together with professionals from agencies and employers, on Wednesday 11th October at Belmont Chapel, for their Big Job Club – a day which helps to connect job seekers with employers and help with everything from CV writing to job applications.
YMCA Exeter has been offering job clubs in the community for the last eight years, but with their Big Lottery Funding coming to a close at the end of the year, the charity wants to encourage more people to make use of their all-age service while it is still available....
It comes with great excitement that The Gro Company, the UK’s leading baby sleep brand, announces the arrival of Amy Walker as Design Manager.
Amy’s appointment will see her create fluid collections with a unique and recognisable handwriting for the Gro brand that families have become to know and love over the past 17 years.
Amy brings with her over 10 years’ experience and joins the team from Lazy Jacks, a successful lifestyle brand in Devon, where she was the Senior Designer. Before that Amy worked for hugely influential brands including Reebok and Weird Fish. Amy’s...
A local digital marketing agency has hosted a Macmillan Coffee Morning, raising £200.95 for the cancer charity.
On Friday 29th September, MiHi Digital opened their doors at their HQ on the Devon / Cornwall border to welcome everyone for tea, coffee and a slice of cake.
The event was held as a part of The World’s Biggest Coffee Morning, Macmillan’s largest annual fundraising event for those facing and fighting cancer. Each year they ask people from all over the UK to host their own Coffee Mornings, with donations on the day being made to Macmillan. Since its inception in...
Two University of Exeter a cappella groups are battling on a new primetime TV show to win the chance to record an album at the famous Abbey Road studios.
Semi-Toned and the Illuminations are taking part in a new Sky One programme to find the country’s best vocal group. If successful they will also get the chance to release a Christmas single.
Sing: Ultimate A Cappella is designed to test the power and versatility of the human voice, with 30 groups using only beatboxing, harmonies, choreography to perform songs by artists from David Bowie to the Backstreet Boys.
S.E.E.D.S Dance Company. Chapters of Diagnosis “I had people saying “it’s all in your head”. Do you honestly think I want to feel this way?” A story inspired by anecdotal accounts, exploring the reality of what living with anxiety and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is really like - imagine a monkey that sits in your brain. There are potentially around 741,504 people living with OCD and serious anxiety at any one time in the UK, and Chapters of Diagnosis sets out to explore these two conditions through the eyes of three unique characters. Telling their personal stories of what it is to live...
Finding the Will in association with The Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham Bard Heads Inspired by Shakespeare’s most famous plays and with a nod to Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads, Bard Heads imagines what might have happened next in Macbeth and Hamlet. The Third Witch From The Left – What’s done cannot be undone – or can it? Meg the witch is haunted by a night she can never forget. Call Me Oz - Sweet Prince? Confirmed bachelor Osric lampoons Hamlet.
George Crocker is keen to liven up his dull life so he decides to join the Village Drama Club. What happens then turns his world upside down. Set during the Second World War this nostalgic, funny and moving story will appeal to all, from ten years and up. It is a vivid portrait of village life with all seventeen colourful characters played by one man.
Dick Shurey writing in the Stratford Herald said : “Set during the last years of world war two, what a tour de force Into the Breach turned out to be. The whole play was a delight … a lovely and very humorous play that fully merited...
