RGB Building Supplies’ Well Built Community Fund has been giving away £1,000 worth of building materials every other month to various different groups since its launch in May 2014.
Now the builders merchant is asking Exeter based charities and projects that support the homeless to nominate themselves to receive the grant.
With a 165-year history, RGB’s Community Fund is a way of giving something back to the community that has been such a support to them.
So, if a group needs materials to update a shelter, make repairs to a building, or perhaps help to create a new...
Exeter City Council’s Housing Revenue Account stands to lose nearly £8m as a result of the cut in Council rents imposed in George Osborne’s recent budget.
Having agreed a rent formula with councils two years ago that was designed to allow them to plan their housing finances with some certainty for the next ten years, the Government has now scrapped this agreement and instead imposed four years of rent cuts.
This will wipe £7.9m from the budget the city council uses to provide services to its tenants and invest in their homes.
The Manson’s Guitar Show (MGS), is back….. with a TWANG, at the Corn Exchange Exeter on Saturday 3 October 2015. The event, sponsored by Rocks Organic brings to the South West the industry’s leading brands, including Marshall, Fender, Ibanez, Orange, Vox, Laney, Mark Bass, Yamaha, Cort, Aguilar, Taylor, Faith and a selection of the UK’s prominent independent companies to showcase a magnificent array of all things guitar. All exhibition stands sold out in record time, and tickets to the event are expected to follow suit. So book now to enjoy a day that promises to be a guitarists dream....
Leading local advice charity, Exeter Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB), has announced the extension of its successful apprenticeship scheme.
The charity, based in Dix’s Field, launched its first apprenticeship scheme in April 2014 when for the first time it recruited two Business Administration and Customer Service apprentices through Exeter College.
Steve Barriball, Chief Executive of Exeter CAB, said: “Both apprentices have exceeded our expectations. The experience for us has been a very positive one. Jenny and Vicki have found challenges in their first year, but they have met...
It will be five years on 10 August since Adam succumbed to bowel cancer.
The charity set up in his name to raise awareness of bowel cancer in the young and help promote a healthy lifestyle through football continues to work hard to achieve its aims.
Since we began we have helped over 5,000 children through supporting PowerChair football in Devon, Downs Syndrome football in Devon, FA Junior Football Leaders Awards in Devon, Somerset and Herefordshire. We have also supported over 100 junior football teams in all of the three counties Adam played in.
The pedestrian who died following a hit and run incident on the A380 in Newton Abbot on Sunday 26 July has been identified.
The victim has been named as Gareth Robert Toms, a 30-year-old from Paignton, who was also known as Frank Hunter.
Police were called at around 1.30am following reports of a collision involving a pedestrian on the A380 Torquay Road near the junction with Aller Brake Road.
Prior to the incident, police had received reports of a man walking in the road, from the direction of Penn Inn roundabout.
Police in Exeter are appealing for witnesses after a 19-year-old man was assaulted in the St Thomas area of the city.
The victim was assaulted by two males, believed to be teenagers, as he walked passed them in the subway at Cowick Street on Sunday 19 July at around 5.30pm.
One of the suspects pushed the victim to the ground and then jumped on his back while he lay there.
The victim, from Exeter, did not suffer any serious injuries but was left feeling shaken by the unprovoked attack.
The suspects are described as white males, aged between 15 and 18. One of...
Dawlish Air Show organisers have announced that the world’s only airworthy de Havilland Sea Vixen will be displaying at Dawlish Air Show later this month.
This Sea Vixen is the only airworthy aircraft of its type in the world and symbolizes a hugely important time in the history of British naval aviation, representing the high speed strike aircraft of her era– the Scimitar, Sea Vixen, Phantom and Buccaneer.
The Sea Vixen FAW1 entered service with the Fleet Air Arm in 1959 replacing the Sea Venom and was the first British aircraft to be solely armed with guided missiles,...
Research by Scottish start-up Create eLearning shows that as much as £56 billion is being lost in the UK every year to replace staff who leave their jobs due to poor training. The firm is hoping to change that with a software platform that allows training programmes to be condensed and distributed around an organisation.
Create eLearning, which is based at Entrepreneurial Spark in Glasgow, has picked up dozens of clients in Europe and the US since it started selling in earnest at the end of last year, and firms typically save between 35% and 60% on their training. And with 40% of...
We are encouraging individuals and businesses to allow staff to wear a football shirt to work on Monday 10th August to remember Adam, and to Text STAN09 (that’s zero nine) £3 to 70070 – or an amount of your choice.
