Princesshay and Radio Exe invite shoppers and visitors to join them for a fun filled Easter inspired day out on Thursday 2nd April from 11am-2pm in Princesshay Square.
Families can take part in an egg and spoon race and try their hand at outdoor game favourites including giant jenga and noughts and crosses.
Visitors to Princesshay’s Easter garden will also have the chance to win chocolate Easter egg sandwiches from Hotel Chocolat in the egg and spoon race, a £50 gift card with Radio Exe and sample the delicious menu from wagamama.
You don’t get many World Championships coming to Exeter, but on Shrove Tuesday (Tuesday 17 February), Princesshay will host the second World Pancake Racing Championships.
Local businesses and organisations will take to the street to demonstrate their pancake flipping credentials.
The Pancake World Championship is a partnership between local Event Management company Wacky Nation and Princesshay, to add some fun entertainment for shoppers during the half term holidays and raise funds for local charities.
Teams of between two and four members will compete in heats...
Princesshay has announced Age UK Exeter as its charity partner for 2015.
Committed to supporting local charities and organisations, Princesshay will be working with Age UK Exeter throughout the year on special events and fundraising activities.
Age UK Exeter is a local charity serving local people and is part of the Age UK family. Each year Age UK Exeter connects with over 5,000 older people and directly supports 1,000 older people every week. It delivers over 30 services and activities across the city weekly and is support by over 250 volunteers.
British Heart Foundation (BHF) shops are delighted to announce that 280 bags were donated to their Bag It. Beat It. event held at Princesshay. The donated items will now go on to be sold in local BHF shops and could generate up to £5,000to help fund life-saving research.
BHF shop’s Bag it. Beat it. campaign urged the public to donate bags of unwanted items. Every bag donated funds life-saving heart research, helping over 40,000 little heroes continue to fight congenital heart disease.
Before the BHF was founded, only one in five babies born with congenital heart disease saw...
Jamie Oliver is excited to announce that Jamie’s Italian Exeter will open in February 2015.
The restaurant is situated in Princesshay with stunning views of the cathedral, and will be the first Jamie's Italian in the West Country.
A partnership between Jamie Oliver and his Italian mentor, Gennaro Contaldo, Jamie’s Italian has won thousands of fans for its delicious and affordable food and its friendly and welcoming service. The menu is based on dishes you’d find people eating all over Italy, made with care but delivered without fuss.
YMCA Exeter’s 5th Annual Santa Abseil took place on Saturday 6th December with almost 60 local people, young and old, abseiling off the Princesshay car park to help combat youth homelessness.
Fifty-seven people put on their Santa suits, an increase of over 20 participants from last year, and overcame the dizzy heights to step over the roof’s edge and raise over £4,000 to support those without safe accommodation, with the figure still rising.
One of the brave abseilers was Julia Holland, who used to manage a supported accommodation project for young homeless people in Exeter...
Ellie Greensmith, proprietor of Elk Salon in Princesshay received the New Business Award 2014 at the Devon Natwest Venus Awards on the 21st November 2014.
Elk Salon opened in Princesshay in December 2012 with a team of two offering hair styling, colouring, cutting and extensions.
The Natwest Venus Awards now in its second year in Devon, were created to recognise the role of women in business and are described as the ‘Working Women’s Oscars’.
Ellie Greensmith was nominated by her mother in law for the award and was subsequently voted for the award by the public via...
Princesshay’s Charity Christmas Festival, now in its second year aims to raise both awareness and funds for local charities.
The Lord Mayor of Exeter switched on the 30 charity Christmas trees in a celebratory light switch on event on Friday night (21 November).
The 30 Christmas trees and their lights have been donated by Princesshay for the festival and local and national charities have been invited to decorate the trees.
Each tree will have a unique and personal look which represent sthe charity that has decorated it. Visitors and shoppers can to donate money to...
Art-lovers are lining up to be part of an exciting new project that sees Exeter and its people taking a starring role in a series of artworks.
The project – TOPOS – is taking over an empty city-centre office space and through its crowdfunding campaign offers the opportunity to be part of a living landscape – digital recreations of famous landscapes - or even to commission an original piece of art.
Deborah Clark, owner of Southernhay House was one of the first to sign up. She said: “I've been bitching about the lack of a serious contemporary art scene in Exeter since I...
Princesshay’s security team are to take on a 21 hour endurance walk to raise money for Princesshay’s charity of the year Dream-A-Way starting at 7pm on Friday 21 November and finishing at 4pm the following day on Saturday 22 November.
Dream-A-Way is celebrating its 21st anniversary this year and to mark the occasion and to raise money, Princesshay’s management and security team have been actively fundraising since the beginning of the charity partnership in January.
Mike Kerswell, Security Supervisor has rounded up the troops to take part in the 21 hour endurance walk...
