Local community invited to book their places on free crafts/fitness/wellbeing/community events and activities run by East Devon and Honiton Town Council, culminating in a big screen film Bookings are now open for East Devon District Council and Honiton Town Council’s Honiton Events Week (25-31 May 2019). This week-long celebration of Honiton’s wonderful parks, nature reserves, arts, community and fitness centres, which are supported by dedicated services provided by East Devon, will give local people the chance to try new experiences, meet council staff and to find out more about the...
Since its launch in 2014, RGB Building Supplies’ Well Built Community Fund has supported 28 charities, schools, projects and community groups by donating £1,000 worth of building materials every other month. The builders merchant is delighted to be bringing it back for another year and is inviting groups from the Exeter area to get in contact.
For its first giveaway of the new campaign, RGB would like to hear from groups that are keen to improve part of their community. Perhaps an outdoor space is rundown and deserves to be turned into a community garden, or maybe a local building...
Darlington actress, Jade Byrne, heads off on a special UK tour this year as Pricks, a medical play (with a difference) about Type 1 Diabetes, takes in a dozen dates from Hexham to Exeter Phoenix (on 16 May) and a few in-between.
At 33-years-old Jade has been an actress for nine years (appearing in the likes of Inspector George Gently, Casualty and Mount Pleasant), and a Type 1 diabetic for the past 30 (just ask her stage companion, Dennis the Menace, he’s been there from the beginning).
An urgent, yet funny, new, one-woman show sees Jade tell a warm, engaging and uplifting...
One of the UK’s highest regarded family law teams is continuing to expand. Stephens Scown LLP’s Exeter family team has seen its workload increase by 70 per cent over the last 10 years and it has just recruited its latest team member.
The team’s latest recruit, Kai Whicker has joined the employee-owned firm as a solicitor. His previous role was at a leading Hertfordshire law firm, where he specialised in complex and high net worth divorce. The team, which is based in Exeter, now has 24 members including five partners.
Stephens Scown’s family law team advises clients on a...
A mini festival of arts & disability at Exeter venues, 22-27 April
Venues across Exeter will feature the work of disabled artists during The Possible Arts Festival .
Organised by CEDA(Community Equality Disability Action) in partnership with Exeter venues, the mini festival includes an exhibition, theatre performance and drop-in workshops for disabled and non-disabled participants.
The festival will showcase some of the work created during CEDA’s Arts Council funded projects working with professional and emerging disabled artists and creating opportunities for...
Patients on the Acute Stroke Unit at the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust are now able to relax in a new, upgraded garden.
Work began on the garden in Autumn 2018 on the Acute Stroke Unit, otherwise known as Clyst Ward, to convert the area from a space that was not easily accessible or beneficial to the recovery of patients, into an area which improves overall wellbeing and that patients can enjoy. The garden is now easily accessible from the ward with a wide range of brightly coloured plants in raised flower beds for patients, staff and visitors to enjoy.
Join the Devon & Somerset Fire & Rescue Service Concert Band for an evening of music from films and musicals to celebrate their 25th Anniversary. Also featuring the DSFRS Corps of Drums.
Tickets which are £6 are available through our website www.fireserviceconcertband.co.uk or will be available on the door.
A bucket collection will be taken at the end of the concert in aid of the Firefighters Charity (Charity No. 1093387)
The Devon General Society and Stagecoach South West are teaming up to commemorate 100 years of bus travel in the region.
The Devon General Omnibus and Touring Company started bus operations in South and East Devon in 1919, with the first route between Exeter and Torquay still going strong today. To commerate a century of bus travel, and celebrate this landmark anniversary, the Devon General Society and Stagecoach are delivering a programme of exciting local events.
Paul Jenkins of the Devon General Society, said: ‘’The Devon General was formed in 1919 before the age of mass...
Once again, passionate gardeners around Exeter, Mid and East Devon are opening their gardens for Hospiscare from May through to August. Pick up your Open Gardens booklet today from Hospiscare shops and other outlets, and start planning which wonderful plots you might visit. There is often the chance to enjoy delicious tea and cakes to compliment your visit too. To find out more please visit - https://www.hospiscare.co.uk/events/open-gardens-2019 or call 01392 688020
Can you love someone who represents everything you hate in the world?
The world is in chaos. Hazel, a doctor, and Archer a space shuttle engineer fall in love. Archer’s work creating shuttle engines, when unsuccessful, has terrible repercussions on people’s health, leaving Hazel to deal with the results. What is the cost when the one thing powerful enough to let them leave the planet could also completely destroy it?
Fissure, written by local playright Hattie Collins is at Exeter Phoenix on 4 & 6 May.
