People suffering from dementia are being offered the chance to get out and enjoy pottering around on an allotment thanks to Age UK Exeter and Exeter City Council.
Linking Lives is a new project being rolled out by Age UK Exeter.
With funding from Age UK nationally five pilot projects across the country have been selected to try out innovative ideas that may help people newly diagnosed with dementia to live well and enjoy life.
The Exeter project allows people who have been recently diagnosed with dementia to meet up with others, share their experiences and make new...
Animal rescue organisations in Exeter are being urged to nominate themselves to receive financial support from the UK’s number one grant giving animal charity, Support Adoption For Pets.
Since being established in 2006, Support Adoption For Pets has raised over £10 million and helped over 920 rehoming centres and animal welfare organisations across the UK by awarding grants and running fundraising campaigns with Pets at Home.
The charity, along with store colleagues at the Exeter Pets at Home store, is calling on local animal charities, rescue centres and welfare...
Rachel Marshall, a 39-year-old Mortgage Adviser from Exeter will be running the London Marathon on 26 April dressed as a lobster, to raise money for national deafblind charity Sense.
Rachel who has named her lobster Loulou, said: “People often ask me ‘Why a Lobster?’ and to them I say ‘Why not?’. I was looking for a costume as at last year’s marathon I felt so jealous of the spectacular response people in costumes get and when I saw Loulou I couldn’t help but smile. Other people smile when they see her too and that can’t be bad!”
Exeter City Football Club has agreed to become a partner to Exeter Pound. Discussions have begun to explore how the club will take the local currency at St James Park.
Gill Westcott, Chair of the Board of Directors of Exeter Pound said: "Exeter City Football Club is a key player in the community. We will be delighted if the Exeter Pound can be used at the club."
Stagecoach has also agreed to become a partner to Exeter Pound. Parallel discussions have opened as to how people might pay for their bus fares in Exeter Pounds.
Recreational users of coastal waters such as swimmers and surfers are at risk of exposure to antibiotic resistant bacteria, according to new research published this week.
In the first study of its kind, scientists at the University of Exeter Medical School have assessed the amount of water ingested during different water sports, and combined this with water sampling data to estimate people’s exposure to bacteria resistant to antibiotics.
Using data gathered across England and Wales in 2012, they estimated that over 6.3 million water sport sessions resulted in one type of...
TSB is pleased to announce Nightstop Devon as the Bank’s first Local Charity Partner for Exeter. The partnership was unveiled on Monday 30th March, by Bank Manager Raj Panesar who presented the charity with a £100 donation from TSB to kick-start their Partnership in Exeter.
Instead of having a centrally chosen Charity of the Year, TSB Partners across Britain are empowered to recognise local causes which share the Bank’s passion for helping local communities thrive.
Nightstop Devon was nominated locally for the work it does in the community of Exeter and the surrounding...
From tomorrow (1 April) a new service will introduce a significant change in victim care in Devon and Cornwall (IoS), with the establishment of a police-based victim care unit (VCU) and a network of support service providers.
Rosie, a sexual abuse survivor, who lives in Cornwall, said: “When I heard about the new victim hub it actually made me smile. To be able to put the power back into the victims lives, taken away from them through whatever’s happened, is such a magnificent step into recovery. I feel if it happens sooner in their journey, rather than later, what we will end up...
Classpeople, the leading independent education recruitment specialists in the South-west today announced the appointment of new compliance officer, Lauren Thompson. The move has been made to tackle constant changes to legislation such as the recent introduction of Disqualification by Association (DBA) meaning that a teacher or practitioner can now be disqualified from work if living or working in the same household as an individual that has been disqualified.
Lynis Bassett, Classpeople Director, explains: "We take our commitment to safeguarding very seriously and have always made...
The challenges faced by blind and partially sighted people in busy city centres will come under the spotlight in Exeter this week.
Tracy Wilson and her guide dog Mardle will take leading councillors and key officers on a tour around Exeter city centre on Wednesday (1 April ) to demonstrate the difficulties faced by those who have sight difficulties in an urban environment.
Tracy, who is the Eye Clinic Liaison Officer at the West of England Eye Unit at the RD&E Hospital, said: "Every day blind and partially sighted people face real challenges navigating streets that most...
We’re counting down towards April 23rd, children everywhere are putting on their Iron Man masks and wearing their Hulk gloves. The release of The Avengers: Age of Ultron is a huge event in the movie (and real) world and it is likely to become the highest grossing superhero movie of all time, beating its own previous instalment The Avengers which took a mammoth 1.5 billion at the box office in 2012.
Here in Exeter it will be screened first at the Vue cinema at one minute past midnight on April 23rd, that showing has now started selling tickets and they are already going fast....
