Beacon Life 2 - a snapshot of life in Beacon Heath's community centre
Boxes of baby clothes are piled high on the right hand side of my desk at The Beacon Community Centre and on my left there are two boxes of bread.
My desk, with its squeaky chair, sits in the middle of this chaos and I love it; this is a community centre in action!
Richard, our centre manager, apologised for the cramped working space but I told him that these boxes are the reason I’m here – to give a helping hand to local people. Who needs trendy, clutter free offices with sterile designer chairs...
Team Oxjam Exeter raised a magnificent £4,372.87 for Oxfam on Saturday 1st October, when 34 bands and artists played live across 3 stages at Timepiece Bar, Courtyard and Old Timers Bar in Exeter.
Exeter is just one of many town and cities all over the UK taking part in Oxjam music festivals this October.
Exents began at 2pm on the Saturday and continued rocking until 11pm; showcasing amazing talents from outstanding, local musicians including: Lionstar,
Chay Snowdon, Beaconfire, Boundless Brothers and Sadie Horler.
A free online basic skills session is being held in Exeter on 21 October 2016 to help blind and partially sighted people get online and take their first steps in using technology.
Sight loss charity RNIB (Royal National Institute of Blind People) has been holding workshops across the UK to support people living with sensory loss in getting online as part of its ambitious Online Today project.
Partner organisation Action for Blind People will be holding the workshop at Devon in Sight, Station House, Holman Way, Topsham, Exeter, EX3 OEN. The session will take place on Friday...
Health chiefs from around the South West will gather together to hear results of a ground-breaking pilot to tackle hepatitis C in the South West. Learning from this work will be used to help inform the delivery of hepatitis C services nationally.
The Tackling Hepatitis C in the South West Summit will take place on October 14 at 2pm in the Kennford and Exminster Room at the Exeter Court Hotel, Kennford, Exeter. In 2014, national charity Addaction, The Hepatitis C Trust and pharmaceutical company AbbVie formed a partnership to pilot an ambitious project to improve access to hepatitis...
Beyond the Barricade has been touring throughout the UK and Europe for more than a decade bringing the greatest songs in musical theatre to the whole country. The show visits Exeter Corn Exchange on Sunday 23 October.
Beyond the Barricade recreates, totally live, original West End and Broadway hit songs with amazing authenticity. The cast of past principal performers from Les Miserables present a blockbusting two hour show that is now established as the nation’s favourite musical theatre concert.
The show features songs from Phantom of the Opera, Jesus Christ Superstar, The...
As part of the Submariners Association initiative the sixth Blue Plaque commemorating a WWI Submariner and VC holder was placed at the Cathedral Choir School, Exeter on Saturday 24th September 2016.
Approximately 120 guests, which included the Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Devon Commodore Jake Moores OBE, DL, RN; the High Sheriff of Devon Mrs. A.M. Gilbert; the Chairman of Devon County Council Cllr. Andrew Moulding; Deputy Lord Mayor of Exeter Cllr Peter Holland; the Headmaster of Exeter Cathedral Choir School James Featherstone and members of the Sandford family, joined veteran and...
A local charity is playing a key part in an initiative which is protecting the nation’s ‘tree heritage’.
Throughout October Devon Wildlife Trust is collecting seed from a series of well-known local wild tree and shrub species including rowan, crab apple, raspberry, silver birch, honey suckle and elder. The collections are an important part of a national project to protect the UK’s trees.
The charity is undertaking the work as a partner in the UK National Tree Seed Project, which has been set up by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank, with funding from...
This October visitors to Powderham Castle will have the chance to get a glimpse of one of Devon’s most spectacular natural phenomona, the rut of Powderham’s ancient fallow deer herd.
Many will remember how the stunning deer park and its ancient trees played host this summer to 50,000 revelers at the Radio 1 Big Weekend. But outside of concerts and events, the deer park is home to a majestic herd of 600 fallow deer who roam the 200-acre deer park, which has been maintained for centuries. Indeed Coldplay’s Chris Martin famously reminded the Big Weekend crowd that it is the deer that...
Police are investigating a burglary which took place at a property in Newton Abbot where precious military medals were taken.
The incident happened between 5:10am and 6.30am on Tuesday 20 September at a home in Queensway.
The offenders gained entry through a small upstairs window and stole eight military medals in bronze, silver and gold [pictured] which are of huge personal value to the home owner.
They include campaign medals achieved from the owner’s former military service in the former Yugoslavia, Kosovo, Northern Ireland, the 2nd Gulf War and Afghanistan....
Exeter has won recognition at a number of influential awards ceremonies.
Local authorities Exeter City Council and Teignbridge District Council were singled out for their role in putting on the highly successful BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend at Powderham Castle.
Working in partnership, the two councils won the Tourism Event of the Year Award at the English Riviera and South Devon Tourism and Hospitality Awards.
Fifty thousand people attended the Big Weekend at the end of May, witnessing some of the best bands in the business, including Coldplay and Mumford and Sons....
