A leading housebuilder has contributed around £2 million towards a new school in Exeter.
Charles Church South West has revealed it has handed over the hefty cheque to Devon County Council as part of its Great Woodcote Park development off Admiral Way.
Trinity Church of England Primary School is being built in the Newcourt area of the city and is due to open in September. Without the considerable contribution towards education, it would have been unlikely that this school would be delivered.
Construction started in February this year and the new school building is...
Devon County Council’s adult education service Learn Devon is celebrating after maintaining its Good rating from Ofsted, following an inspection on 28 February and 1 March.
Over the two days, HM inspectors met with managers, tutors and other staff, visited lessons, talked to learners and reviewed key information such as evidence of safeguarding and reports on learners’ satisfaction with their courses.
In his report, HM Inspector Steve Tucker praised the service’s “clear focus on improving the lives of disadvantaged and vulnerable people in Devon.”
First held in 2006, the Exeter Contemporary Open is one of the UKs most prominent regional contemporary art competitions, culminating in an annual exhibition at Exeter Phoenix, the South West’s foremost multi-artform venue and exhibition centre. Exeter Contemporary Open provides an important national platform for contemporary visual art with an emphasis on supporting new and emerging talent alongside more established artists.
Open to all contemporary artists working in any medium who live in the UK, works for the exhibition are selected by a panel of specialists, which in the past...
For the 16th year running and with support from South West Water and On Tap Water, the talented young musicians and singers from Exeter School will perform a special concert to raise funds for international charity WaterAid.
All proceeds from the concert, which takes place at St Michael's Church, Heavitree, from 7.30pm on Wednesday 26 April, will go directly to WaterAid projects in Zambia, helping some of the country's poorest communities gain access to clean water and safe sanitation.
The concert will feature school ensembles including Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra...
From the moment Murray Lachlan Young bounds onto the stage, hair wrapped in a towel, dressing gown flapping, you know you’re in for a good time. His poetry is funny, observational and entirely silly. His audience banter is even funnier. And with Young, audience participation for both children and ex-children (as he calls us) is neither awkward nor embarrassing, just fun.
An innovative and ground-breaking poetry show written and performed by Murray Lachlan Young, one of the UK’s foremost performance poets BBC 6 Resident poet and a regular fixture on BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Live etc;...
