Your essential guide to What’s On in and around Exeter this weekend (10-12 February)
THEATRE
Jimeoin: Renonsense Man Friday, Exeter Corn Exchange, Exeter An evening of brilliantly observed, ever-evolving and hilarious stand-up from the internationally acclaimed star of TV shows including 'Live at the Apollo', 'Royal Variety Performance', 'John Bishop Show', CH4's O2 Gala' and 'Sunday Night at the Palladium'. Don't miss Ireland's own "Witruvian Man" - live! Over 14s. https://exetercornexchange.co.uk
Fish Eye Friday & Saturday, Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter...
This year, former X factor winner and gold-selling artist Sam Bailey is delighting fans up and down the country on her Sing My Heart Out Tour and on 6th May, she will be wowing audiences at Torquay’s Princess Theatre with her powerhouse vocals and support from local singer Miracle Chance
Following a successful second album of the same name, Sam is back with her 32-date Sing My Heart Out tour, stopping at some of nation’s most prestigious live music venues, including Princess Theatre.
Speaking about her new tour, Sam says “For me, nothing is more rewarding than getting the...
Leading UK expedition and logistics company Across the Divide ( https://www.acrossthedivide.com/ ), which has organised expeditions around the world and provided logistics and planning support to charities and corporates raising £92million for charity, celebrates its 20th anniversary this month. In that time, Across the Divide has provided medical support for CBS TV's Survivor Series and helped Helen Skelton run and kayak for Comic Relief. It helped Ben Fogle and James Cracknell ride from Edinburgh to London, and even Sir David Attenborough has reached out for the firm’s expert support. It...
Unbelievably, this will be our 10th annual beer festival and it gets bigger and better every year.
This year we've got 22 real ales on offer (as well as a couple of ciders and a ginger beer), a fantastic line-up of live music all day and of course some tasty hot and cold food to soak it all up. Yeoford is on the Exeter-Barnstaple train line ((only 20 mins from St. David's), so there's no need for anyone to drive and everyone can join in the fun.
It's only £3 entry, which includes a souvenir glass and all proceeds go towards the Yeoford Community Association.
The University of Exeter has launched its most ambitious philanthropic Campaign to date to reinforce its position as one of the leading research institutions worldwide.
The ‘Making the Exceptional Happen’ Campaign will raise £60 million by 2020 to support research into shared global challenges, including climate change, chronic disease and food security. The funds raised will leverage a further £100 million from research and corporate partners over this period.
The Campaign will also secure 60,000 hours from 6,000 volunteers to help enhance Exeter’s outstanding student...
Crisp Professional Development, Exeter’s long-established learning and development provider, have chosen Children’s Hospice South West as their 2017 Charity of the Year.
The charity, which supports life-limited children and their families, has 3 hospices in Devon, Cornwall and Bristol, providing respite, palliative and end of life care.
Crisp Professional Development will be offering financial support by donating money from every Open Course sale throughout 2017, but will also be actively fundraising for the charity.
Managing Director Shaun Durham said: “The whole...
Exeter and Plymouth based LHC Architecture + Urbanism has pledged a year-long programme of fundraising events in aid of the Children’s Hospice South West.
image004.jpgStaff from the award-winning architecture firm voted for Children’s Hospice South West to be the company’s charity of the year, after having designed two of charity’s hospices in the past 20 years.
The charity was founded in 1991 by parents Eddie and Jill Farwell, who experienced first-hand the urgent need for hospice care for children in the South West. Children’s Hospice South West now has three hospices...
Leading independent education recruitment specialists Class People are helping to raise awareness of the teaching profession this week, by taking part in Barnardo’s ‘Hat Day’. The charity’s aim is to encourage young people to use their imagination to be whoever they want to be, whether it be a fireman, an astronaut - or a teacher. With their extensive work with Barnardo’s Children’s Centres, Class People are keen to show their support in new ways to help the worthwhile cause. As providers for supply teachers and early years practitioners across the South-West, South-East and Midlands,...
This month marks the start of the Red Triangle Campaign, which aims to eradicate the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM).
The national campaign will run until International Women’s Day on March 8 using a symbolic small, downward facing red triangle to denote solidarity against FGM.
Solicitor Hannah Myers from The Family Law Company, explained the background: “FGM is any procedure that involves the injury to, or partial or total removal of female genitalia for non-medical reasons.
“It isn’t pleasant to think about, but the practice – which is predominant in...
We all have a dream engagement ring; that ring we just happen to find ourselves looking at on the internet every day. So, entrusting our partners to pick out that perfect engagement ring is pretty nerve-wracking experience. Although the men are choosing the ring as a promise of commitment to their partners, it is the women that have to have to wear that ring for the rest of their lives.
77 Diamonds presents “The Perfect Match”, an experiment designed to test couples to see how well they know each other, and how well they know their partner's taste in jewellery.
