Exeter Round Table organise Exeter’s biggest and best fireworks display with this being their 36th annual event.
Pre sales tickets are available for only £16 for a family of four and can be purchased from many outlets in the Exeter area. As well as being the largest pyro-musical charity firework display in Devon, there is also a large fair with many thrilling rides, a range of food and drink stalls and ample free parking.
The Westpoint team who work in close conjunction with Exeter Round Table have been generous once again, by donating their facilities for free. The event...
Are you a home crafter? Exeter’s Beacon Community Centre is looking for stallholders for its Christmas Fair on Saturday 10 December 12 till 3pm.
Last year’s fair was packed with hundreds of shoppers and 150 local children visited Santa!
Centre manager Richard Cummings, said: "We had a great time last year, there was a real buzz. We’ve already got 10 stalls booked and would love to hear from more local people who make high quality Christmas cards, pottery, handmade decorations, Christmas puddings, gifts or stocking fillers."
Rathbone Investment Management have made a significant contribution to one of the city’s biggest LEGO® models as part of their sponsorship of Exeter Cathedral’s Big LEGO Build. The Build is a major fundraising project to build a scale model of the Cathedral from 300,000 LEGO bricks, using a design by certified LEGO builders Bright Bricks. Visitors to the Cathedral are being encouraged to get involved, and for every £1 donated a brick can be added to the model. Staff from the firm’s central Exeter office built a LEGO “flying buttress” earlier this year under the watchful eye of the project...
Hospiscare are delighted to announce that two more of the celebrated local charity’s coffee mornings have proven very successful.
Little MarVals Preschool in Pinhoe held their Hospiscare coffee morning on 30th September. The school which caters for children aged 2-5 years, invited mums and dads and the local community to a parents’ coffee morning at the United Reformed Church in Pinhoe.
Children and parents enjoyed cake and browsing toy stalls and sharing their work with the community. An organist also played and at the end of the day,
United Fight Events, a premium event, showcasing the very best in combat sports. There has been a meteoric rise in martial arts within the last 5 years with the different arts and styles gaining huge attention.
United Fight Events currently showcases Muay Thai and Traditional Boxing and will host its first, much anticipated event, #UNFC1, on October 22nd at Riverside Leisure Centre in front of 1100 supporters.
The main event features Marcel Gaines, who has recently returned from three years of competition at the highest level in Thailand, who will be competing against Leif...
United Fight Events, a premium event, showcasing the very best in combat sports. There has been a meteoric rise in martial arts within the last 5 years with the different arts and styles gaining huge attention.
United Fight Events currently showcases Muay Thai and Traditional Boxing and will host its first, much anticipated event, #UNFC1, on October 22nd at Riverside Leisure Centre in front of 1100 supporters.
The main event features Marcel Gaines, who has recently returned from three years of competition at the highest level in Thailand, who will be competing against Leif...
South West Green Energy Awards judges have this week announced Okehampton-based biomass wood fuel distributor Forest Fuels as a top contender for their coveted Installer of the Year award.
The news follows the fastest and most comprehensive growth period in Forest Fuels’ history, which has seen the renewable energy specialist’s annual turnover grow from £7.3 million in 2015 to £15 million in September 2016 and the number of biomass installations it supplies to grow by 106%.
Organised by Regen SW – the region’s sustainable energy agency – the South West Green Energy Awards...
Organic Arts is celebrating today after being awarded a grant of £158,385 from the Big Lottery Fund.
The fund will support Organic Arts’ community garden for the next five years which gives people to opportunity to engage in a variety of garden based practical activities on the outskirts of Exeter in Ide.
It offers volunteering opportunities for anyone who wants to get involved but is particularly targeted at people with mental health issues, physical disabilities, learning disabilities and people recovering from addiction.
Your essential guide to what’s on in and around Exeter this weekend (14-16 October):
THEATRE
Pride and Prejudice Friday & Saturday, Exeter Northcott Theatre A highly praised and sparkling interpretation of one of the most loved and romantic stories of all time, this is a must for Austen fans and those looking for a fresh and surprising new piece of theatre. Fast and very funny – this chance to catch the five Bennett sisters and the whole world of Austen brought to life by just two actors is a treat not to be missed. https://exeternorthcott.co.uk
A UK exhibition tour of many ‘never before seen’ photographs of David Bowie has been extended to include a visit to Exeter next spring.
After a sell out 2016 tour, Off Beat Lounge, in conjunction with David Bowie’s official photographer, Denis O’Regan have added an extra eight locations to their 2017 UK tour of Mini dealerships, exhibiting forty photographs, many of which have never been seen by the public before, documenting Denis’ time touring the world with David Bowie. The tour will now visit the Westerley MINI showroom on Matford Park Road in Exeter for one night only on the...
