Your essential guide to What’s On in and around Exeter this weekend (10-12 February)
THEATRE
Jimeoin: Renonsense Man Friday, Exeter Corn Exchange, Exeter An evening of brilliantly observed, ever-evolving and hilarious stand-up from the internationally acclaimed star of TV shows including 'Live at the Apollo', 'Royal Variety Performance', 'John Bishop Show', CH4's O2 Gala' and 'Sunday Night at the Palladium'. Don't miss Ireland's own "Witruvian Man" - live! Over 14s. https://exetercornexchange.co.uk
Fish Eye Friday & Saturday, Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter...
The University of Exeter has launched its most ambitious philanthropic Campaign to date to reinforce its position as one of the leading research institutions worldwide.
The ‘Making the Exceptional Happen’ Campaign will raise £60 million by 2020 to support research into shared global challenges, including climate change, chronic disease and food security. The funds raised will leverage a further £100 million from research and corporate partners over this period.
The Campaign will also secure 60,000 hours from 6,000 volunteers to help enhance Exeter’s outstanding student...
Crisp Professional Development, Exeter’s long-established learning and development provider, have chosen Children’s Hospice South West as their 2017 Charity of the Year.
The charity, which supports life-limited children and their families, has 3 hospices in Devon, Cornwall and Bristol, providing respite, palliative and end of life care.
Crisp Professional Development will be offering financial support by donating money from every Open Course sale throughout 2017, but will also be actively fundraising for the charity.
Managing Director Shaun Durham said: “The whole...
Exeter and Plymouth based LHC Architecture + Urbanism has pledged a year-long programme of fundraising events in aid of the Children’s Hospice South West.
image004.jpgStaff from the award-winning architecture firm voted for Children’s Hospice South West to be the company’s charity of the year, after having designed two of charity’s hospices in the past 20 years.
The charity was founded in 1991 by parents Eddie and Jill Farwell, who experienced first-hand the urgent need for hospice care for children in the South West. Children’s Hospice South West now has three hospices...
It's seven a.m. on a chilly, dark February morning; there's ankle-deep, sugar-white snow outside and you're stuck ungracefully attempting to digest Mellow Birds Instant Coffee. And you ponder, just for a second, because you have to defrost your car, where on earth has a good, local coffee sprinted off to? And in a world where franchises such as Starbucks eats up your wallets more than Great Western Railways, it has become increasingly difficult to not become blinded by the deeply rich aroma of caramel coffee that hovers around these overpriced corporate chains. But...
During half term families can join the East Devon Countryside Rangers at Seaton Wetlands on Tuesday 14 February 2017 for a day of fun learning how to make gardens more wildlife friendly, followed by bird watching for children.
During the Wildlife Gardening event, which will take place between 10am to 2pm, one of the Countryside Rangers will demonstrate willow coppicing and refreshments will be served from the Discovery Hut. No booking is required for this event. Cost for materials: £7.50 per bird box kit, £3 for other craft activities.
We all have a dream engagement ring; that ring we just happen to find ourselves looking at on the internet every day. So, entrusting our partners to pick out that perfect engagement ring is pretty nerve-wracking experience. Although the men are choosing the ring as a promise of commitment to their partners, it is the women that have to have to wear that ring for the rest of their lives.
77 Diamonds presents “The Perfect Match”, an experiment designed to test couples to see how well they know each other, and how well they know their partner's taste in jewellery.
Leading West Country Independent Estate Agency, Wilkinson Grant & Co, will be supporting YMCA Exeter in several large fundraising initiatives throughout 2017.
This will include the annual Sleep Easy event at Exeter Castle on Saturday 4th March, the extension of an existing campaign to make special donations to the charity and through additional funding support of the charities ‘Changing Rooms, Changing Lives’ campaign.
The estate agency, which has offices in Exeter and Topsham, is entering a team into this year’s Sleep Easy, which will see around 300 people spend a...
Wonford Community Centre held an open day at its recently refurbished Phoenix Suite on Saturday. Jo Evans, community champion from the Tesco Exeter Vale store and colleagues from the store team went along on the day to hand out a variety of refreshments. The Wonford Community Centre is a charity that provides activities, clubs and events for the benefit of the local community. Since Devon Youth Services ended the Phoenix Youth Centre had been empty. The Trustees of Wonford Community and Learning Centre have now taken on the lease of the building and made improvements to the premises. The...
Exeter-based Lightfoot® is partnering with Allianz Insurance Plc to launch a new programme to encourage and reward better driving among UK fleets.
Starting this month ‘Lightfoot Fleet Driver of the Week’ will give fleet drivers using Lightfoot the chance to win a series of great prizes. Sponsored by Allianz Insurance Plc, prizes will range from weekend breaks to spa and supercar days. All drivers have to do to be eligible for the weekly prize draws is achieve their weekly KPIs with Lightfoot, encouraging a higher level of driver efficiency.
