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Spirit of the Exe: Exe-travaganza

Event Date: 
01/08/2015 - 11:00am
Venue: 
Exeter Quay

Everybody is invited to an Exe-travaganza on Saturday 1st August at Exeter Quay on the Piazza Terracina from 11am.

Spirit of the Exe is a free festival for all the family with live music, stalls, face painting, nature walks, creative activities for all ages, stilt walkers, activities on the river and much much more.

The event will be a celebration of the estuary! It is a globally important site for wildlife, a hub of activities for people to enjoy their leisure time, an area steeped in maritime history and a place of beauty and pride for local communities.

The...

Fun Kitchen Summer Children's Workshops

Event Date: 
10/08/2015 - 4:15pm to 11/08/2015 - 4:45pm
Venue: 
Southernhay Hall, Exeter (behind Princesshay)

Are you ready for summer?

Book yourself a break and make Fun Kitchen part of your summer plans!

Drop your child off from 8.30am to begin our workshop at 9am and we will ensure an entertaining and fun filled day of cookery activities until 5.30pm at Southernhay Hall in Exeter.

You can relax in the knowledge that your child is taking part in a wide range of fun and educational cookery activities in an excellent safe and secure school environment supervised by professional teachers.

This is an enriching, exciting and educational way for children between 8 to 14...

RSPCA Big Walkies - Best Dog Walk Ever!

Event Date: 
27/09/2015 - 11:00am to 3:00pm
Venue: 
Ludwell Valley Park via Wonford Sports Centre, Rifford Road, Exeter EX2 6NF

Come and join the Big Walkies - the Best Dog Walk Ever!

Taking place on Sunday 27 September starting at Wonford Sports Centre, Rifford Road, Exeter EX2 6NF and walking either 3km or 5km around Ludwell Valley Park. Registration is £10 per dog and all money raised goes directly to your local RSPCA Shelter - Little Valley. There will be an event village and lots of fun on the day.

Join us and sign up today: http://bit.ly/1Krm0tp

It Came from Planet Exe - Family Sci-Fi Day

Event Date: 
11/07/2015 - 10:00am to 4:00pm
Venue: 
Exeter Phoenix

A one day Family Sci-Fi themed event featuring T.V. and Film actors (Doctor Who, Thor, Poldark and more) and Bestselling Author Andrew Lane (Young Sherlock and Lost Worlds).

Plus Science Fiction/Fantasy shops and comic stalls, costumed characters, live music, Board game playing, artists and fun and games and lots more!

Raising funds for Phonic FM.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/It-Came-From-Planet-Exe-A-Day-of-Sci-Fi-a...

RSPCA Little Valley Animal Shelter Annual Shelter Day

Event Date: 
28/06/2015 - 11:00am to 4:00pm
Venue: 
RSPCA Little Valley Animal Shelter, Black Hat Lane, Bakers Hill, Exeter EX2 9TA

Come along to your local RPSCA Shelter and enjoy a fun day of stalls, games and a dog show on Sunday 28 June from 11am until 4pm – all raising funds for the Shelter!

Little Valley Animal Shelter is based just outside Exeter at Black Hat Lane, Bakers Hill, Exeter EX2 9TA (just past Pocombe Bridge) and looks after abandoned or mistreated animals from the local area – dogs, cats, rabbits, ferrets, guinea pigs, rodents, birds and sometimes a few more unusual creatures!

The Shelter is not normally open to the public, so the charity’s annual Shelter Day is a rare opportunity to...

A Quiet Night In

Event Date: 
25/06/2015 - 7:30pm to 9:30pm
Venue: 
St Matthew's Church, Lower Summerlands, Exeter EX1 2JL

In our most ambitious concert so far, our ten-piece ensemble play quiet music for grand piano, strings, wind, coffee cups, bottles and other sonic delights in the lovely acoustic of St Matthew's Church (Newtown, Exeter).

Hugh Nankivell is making a new piece especially for us.

We welcome clarinettist Charlie Sheppard-Vine all the way from Glasgow.

Alex Wilson will play some of Howard Skempton's lucid piano music.

We'll also perform James Saunders' revelatory music with its different textures of quietness, create 'Artificial...

St David's Church Summer Fete

Event Date: 
04/07/2015 - 11:30am to 2:30pm
Venue: 
St David's Church, Exeter (opposite Exeter College)

Great Community Event Free Entry Fun for all the Family All Welcome On come Rain or Shine http://www.stdavidschurchexeter.org.uk/

Free foodie children’s fun in Exeter

Authored by Hospiscare
Posted: Thu, 06/04/2015 - 10:29am

Bring your children along to Exeter’s Princesshay on Saturday (6 June) between 10am and 3pm for some fabulous free foodie fun in the kitchen.

Fun Kitchen will be running cookery workshops every hour, on the hour, free to all, to celebrate the launch of Hospiscare’s Big Devon Bake Off 2015.

Children can learn new skills by getting their hands dirty and getting stuck in making some tasty treats.

The workshops will be led by double award-winning food teacher and founder of Fun Kitchen Joe Mann, who said: "Whether a child is crazy about baking, potty about pies and...

Half term family fun at RAMM

This May half-term holiday there are extra events planned for families with children at Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM).

The free bee bags and explorer bags, interactives and the World Cultures family area gallery are always available and always popular with children. On the Tuesday there will also be an opportunity to handle genuine objects from the Second World War and from Tuesday to Thursday there are special activities.

On Tuesday 26 May, parents, grandparents and carers with children under five years old can take a journey of discovery together and make...

Festival brings together the best of Devon

Scrumpstock Festival is set to become an annual event as it brings together musicians, entertainers, leisure businesses, causes, town dignitaries, community groups and food, drink and bespoke goods producers from Exmouth and around Devon for a weekend at Exmouth Rugby Club.

Brian Steffens from Dawlish has just joined the musical line-up. He is the father in law of Caz Steffens, the founder of the Snooky Trust, a charity that helps young adults in the Dawlish area, which is benefiting from the festival proceeds.

Dave Oliver of Devon’s Rattlebox Theatre, whose puppets shows...

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