Thank You Exeter! More than 100 local businesses, schools and organisation took part in our Bring a £1 Day.
You may have seen our fundraising team at Princesshay, wearing our new logo t-shirts and standing by our giant big pink collecting hat, kindly made by Brightsea Printers.
Lots of people said hello and donated a £1 and some local businesses came by to pop their staff collection into our Hospiscare hat. Children were intrigued to peer into the hat. Radio Exe and singer Jimmy Ireland joined us during the day to liven up the event.
The biggest full price Fat Face store in the UK will open its doors in Princesshay, Exeter on Saturday 17 October after extensive refurbishment and expansion programme.
Wayne Pearce, Princesshay Centre Director, says: “The new Fat Face in Princesshay will be the biggest full price store in the UK and we are looking forward to seeing the refurbishment and its new and improved layout. Fat Face has been an integral part of Princesshay since its opening in 2007 and we are proud of their success and pleased to see them expand.”
Come and join the party in Princesshay - pop your £1 into our amazing, giant pink collecting hat!
Already more than 100 Exeter businesses, schools and organisations have signed up to our fundraising event, Bring a £1 Day and will be coming along on Friday 9 October.
It's not too late to join in the fun - just organise a collection and come along to meet our staff who will be there along with Radio Exe and local musicians.
Pop your £1 into our amazing big pink collecting hat, generously made and donated by our good friends at Brightsea Printers.
Join more than 60 Exeter businesses, schools and organisations who are taking part in Hospiscare’s big fundraising event, Bring a £1 Day, on Friday October 9.
They are all keen to support the local charity which last year cared for 632 terminally ill Exeter patients and their families, with 473 people being visited in their own homes by Hospiscare nurses and 164 local people were admitted to the hospice.
Hospiscare is calling on local people to collect their £1 coins and bring them to Princesshay to put them in a giant pink collection hat.
To celebrate Exeter’s Host City status in the Rugby World Cup, Princesshay has invited eight local schools from across Exeter and surrounding villages to take part in its Rugby Team Scarecrow competition.
Each school has been designated a team which is playing at Sandy Park in the Rugby World Cup, plus England, South Africa and Wales. Pupils have been set a challenge to use that team’s colours to fashion a bright and colourful decorative scarecrow to represent their chosen team.
Andy Littlejohns, operations manager at Princesshay said: “We wanted to become involved with the...
Roy Powney, 78, from Exeter has been honing his bee keeping skills on Princesshay’s rooftop garden which is home to five hives and more than 60,000 bees.
Through Age UK Exeter, Princesshay’s Charity of the Year, Roy has been visiting the roof top garden every Thursday since April. Working alongside Jason Wallis, head bee keeper for Princesshay, Roy has been closely involved in caring for the bees which has been a passion of his from a young age.
Princesshay’s city bee project, now in its third year, continues to thrive on the roof tops of the busy Exeter shopping centre....
CTC, the national cycling charity, has teamed up with the Crown Estates as part of a series of summer events called Thrive, designed to make healthy living fun.
Thrive is coming to Exeter in September, offering shoppers a chance to have fun getting fit this summer.
The free one-day events are taking place in ten towns and cities across England from 4 July through to 5 September.
If you're new to cycling or want to gain greater confidence in the saddle, CTC will be on hand and ready to sign you up to our Bikeability courses - with 200 free places up for grabs!...
The Thrive Summer Series is heading to Princesshay this September offering shoppers a chance to have fun getting fit. The free one-day event is taking place from 11am to 4pm on Saturday 5 September as part of the nationwide tour. The Thrive team will be running activities to get shoppers moving.
The Thrive event aims to emphasise the fun side of getting fit and being active this summer. It is free for shoppers and visitors alike and a great chance to focus on healthy living, being more active, and connecting with the local community.
Princesshay will be hosting the British Heart Foundation (BHF) Bag It. Beat It. event on Saturday 5th September which urges the Exeter community to donate bags full of their unwanted items to be sold in local BHF shops.
Every bag donated will help fund life saving heart research, helping over seven million people continue to fight heart disease. Last year the BHF raised over £130 million from voluntary income alone. In the same year £115.5 million was committed to funding new medical research*. This enabled them to fund scientists at more than 40 different locations in the UK. This...
