Now in its fourth year, 10:10’s Solar Schools project has worked with a network of 65 schools across the country, raising nearly half a million pounds and installing over 830 solar panels.
Solar Schools helps schools raise money to put solar panels on their roofs. It offers schools a way to boost budgets, cut carbon and forge new bonds with their local community. With an extension of the project launched this month, it’s now even easier for schools to get involved.
Depending on the size of the roof and the number of panels installed, Solar Schools could save an average of £...
Devon is known for its exceptionally lovely landscape as well as its vibrant artistic community, one of the largest of any county in Britain.
For 16 days in September many of those artists will be opening their studios to the public.
Devon’s varied natural beauty, fine pubs, cafes, farm shops and seaside attractions make Devon Open Studios’ free full colour event guide a handbook for a blissful day out venturing down hidden lanes to bucolic villages, across moorland to stop in stannary towns or over cliffs to find artists by the sea.
If you want to strike success in a business meeting- offer a plate of shortbread, new research reveals.
A study of 2,000 business workers found one in four say they’re more inclined to close a deal in a meeting because of the biscuits provided, with shortbread, chocolate bourbons and flapjacks all likely to win a favourable reaction.
In fact, having the right selection of snacks was deemed more crucial to meeting success than making good small talk beforehand, the study found.
And while it's easy to take the biscuit, there are unwritten rules- waiting for the...
A leading Devon law firm has scooped a national award at the inaugural Legal Innovation Awards for its ground-breaking iPhone App for clients.
Stephens Scown LLP launched its “My Lawyer” App in November 2014 as a way of allowing clients to keep track of their cases quickly and easily while they were on the move. The App allows clients to view documents, keep up to date with costs, pay bills online and diarise key dates.
Stephens Scown won the Client Management Innovation category of the Legal Innovation Awards beating a number of larger national law firms including Pinsent...
Homebase Garden Academy student, Nicola Oakey, from Exeter, is about to build her first RHS Show garden at BBC Gardener’s World Live (11 - 14 June). Nicola, who started the Academy in September 2014, successfully submitted a design for the ‘Beautiful Borders’ category of the show. The design had to be inspired by the ‘Industrial Heritage of the West Midlands’, so Nicola took this opportunity to celebrate the amazing pottery industry that has flourished in the area, notably Spode and Wedgewood. “I can’t wait to bring my design to life”, said Nicola. “The Garden Academy visits Barnsdale...
Digital Marketer Alastair Banks, Director of Optix Solutions, will be the guest speaker at July's Networking Breakfast.
Alastair, who co-founded Optix Solutions in 1999 with an Exeter University course-mate, will be speaking about 'The Surprising Similarities between Rugby and Digital Marketing'.
The morning will begin with networking from 8.15am followed by a full English breakfast at 8.30am. Our speaker will commence at 9.00am and the morning will finish at approximately 9.45am.
Tickets for this event cost £22 and can be purchased by contacting events@sandypark.co...
Following their joint presence at last week’s Devon County Show, the South West Coast Path Association and South West Water announce they will be working together to help protect the South West Coast Path.
The South West Coast Path attracts 8.6 million visitors a year and contributes £436m to the local economy, making it one of the most popular walking routes in the country. Alongside the quality of the Path itself, it is the views and natural environment that people come to enjoy when visiting the coast. South West Water has been working hard to help clean up our coastal waters,...
AN NHS physiotherapist from East Devon has been selected to compete for Great Britain in the 2015 World Dragon Boat Racing Championships in Canada – just two years after taking up the sport.
Sue Bath, a musculoskeletal (MSK) physiotherapy team lead for the Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust, said she was ‘overweight and unfit’ when she moved to the area in 2013.
She did an internet search for ‘things to do in Exeter’, joined the Exe-Calibre Dragon Boat Club soon after and hasn’t looked back since.
Sue, 50, has raced for Exe-Calibre’s mixed and ladies crews in the...
It's been quite a season for Exeter Chiefs youngster Max Bodilly, but already the young Cornishman is targeting what he hopes will be an even bigger 2015/16 campaign.
As one of the growing number of players to emerge from the Devon club's hugely successful Academy programme, the 20-year-old back is looking to follow in the studmarks of fellow young guns Jack Nowell, Henry Slade, Dave Ewers, Luke Cowan-Dickie and Sam Hill in making the leap into first team regulars.
Certainly the Truro-born youngster has already demonstrated that he has the qualities to perform at the top...
