The Hospiscare Team

Generous auction-goers make Hospiscare fundraising total soar

Authored by Sue Cade
Posted: Tue, 08/06/2019 - 8:18am

Generous buyers at Chilcotts most recent sale helped swell ongoing fundraising for Hospiscare to over £16,500.

Each sale day the auctioneers invite the Hospiscare team to take over the kitchen at the Silver Street Saleroom near Honiton Community College, to sell tea and coffee, snacks and cakes made freshly by Hospiscare volunteer Mary Bolshaw and her team, with every penny of profit kept by the charity.

At the July Antiques and Interiors sale, Liz and Duncan Chilcott launched celebrations to mark the company’s 15th anniversary by providing free refreshments for buyers...

Caroline Hall Guild Member drawing a textile pattern

Local craft centre transforms gallery into working studios

The Guild craft gallery in Bovey Tracey is to be a new venue for the annual Devon Open Studios this year. During 7th -29th September, six Guild Members will showcase their work and be present at the centre, demonstrating their craft, chatting and letting people have a go – all in the UK tradition of local artists opening their doors to the public.

For locals and visitors it’s a unique opportunity to hunt out artists in beautiful, unexplored Devon as well as buy art direct from the creator, chat or try a technique themselves.

They can find all this at the Guild’s Riverside...

Exeter’s disabled drivers get on the road with the Motability Scheme

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Tue, 08/06/2019 - 6:40am

More than 2,700 disabled motorists, carers and their friends and families attended One Big Day Exeter at Westpoint on 27 July 2019. The event showcased a wide range of vehicles available for disabled people, and offered visitors the chance to discover all they needed to know about worry-free motoring with the Motability Scheme.

Visitors explored a showcase of over 100 vehicles from leading manufacturers including Ford, Audi and Hyundai, plus, Wheelchair Accessible Vehicles (WAVs) and a range of vehicle adaptations, powered wheelchairs and scooters.

One Big Day provides a...

Boyzlife return to Exeter

Authored by Sam Richards
Posted: Mon, 08/05/2019 - 11:32pm

BOYZLIFE (Brian McFadden & Keith Duffy of Boyzone) are back on tour and heading to Exeter Lemon Grove on Sunday 22nd September 2019!

Boyzlife brings together members of two of the biggest boybands in history, Boyzone and Westlife, to perform a whole host of their biggest chart hits.

Brian McFadden enjoyed 12 UK and Ireland number ones as a member of Westlife, including a record breaking seven top spots in a row. The band also boast four number 1 albums and over 30 million record sales in total. Since Westlife, Brian has enjoyed international solo success, including a UK...

BTS bring the Soul back to Vue

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Mon, 08/05/2019 - 10:18pm

South Korean pop sensations BTS are back at Vue Exeter and they are bringing the soul. Following their landmark ‘Love Yourself’ tour, BTS return to the big screen with ‘BTS Bring the Soul: The Movie’.

After the success of their 2018 movie ‘Burn the Stage: The Movie’, with worldwide pre-sale orders reaching nearly 1 million, it’s no surprise the global sensations are back for more.

Arriving on screen at Vue on 7th and 8th August, BTS tell their own stories from a rooftop in Paris, having just completed the European leg of their tour. From performing to an army of fans to...

Oneserve secures coveted place as a finalist in the global Software as a Service Awards

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Mon, 08/05/2019 - 9:25pm

Oneserve is delighted to announce that it is a finalist in the prestigious 2019 Software as a Service (SaaS) Awards, securing a coveted place in the shortlist from amongst tough global competition.

The SaaS Awards is an international awards program which celebrates SaaS providers who are changing the game with their innovative software solutions and commitment to excellence. The SaaS awards is now in its fourth year and saw over 400 entries from across the globe including the US, Canada, Australasia, EMEA and UK.

Oneserve is shortlisted in the Best SaaS for Productivity...

Exeter Contemporary Sounds present music by Reich Belshaw Bach & Kraftwerk

Event Date: 
17/08/2019 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Exeter Library

Exeter Contemporary Sounds present a concert of ground breaking classical contemporary pieces featuring live music, recorded sound and film footage.

Steve Reich - Different Trains (Exeter based composer) Simon Belshaw - Between the Moon and the Earth and pieces by Bach, Michael Nyman and Kraftwerk performed by Barbara Degener - ‘cello, Andrew Gillett - viola, Julie Hill - violin and Emma Welton - violin

The pieces explore themes surrounding the Apollo moon missions and international train journeys.

Alongside the live string quartet, film footage and recordings will...

Evening of Mediumship with Stephen Holbrook

Event Date: 
05/10/2019 - 7:30pm to 9:30pm
Venue: 
Exeter Spiritualist Centre

I am mainly clairaudient – in other words, instead of seeing any kind of visual imagery I hear voices, which are sometimes in my head and sometimes as if a person is standing next to me whispering in my ear. These voices can be crystal clear or they can be rather muffled, but either way I know they are the voices of people who have passed on from this life to the next. The information that is given to me, which can sometimes seem rather trivial to an ‘onlooker’, is always so personal to the recipient of the message – because of that, there is no doubt in my mind as to who these voices...

Hugh Dunford Wood Guild Member wallpaper stomping in studio

Devon Open Studios: exhibition and maker events

Event Date: 
07/09/2019 - 10:00am to 29/09/2019 - 5:30pm
Venue: 
Devon Guild of Craftsmen

From 7 - 29 September, Devon Guild’s Riverside Gallery is a venue for the Open Studios 2019, showcasing craftwork by six of its Members.

Scaffolding about to come down at Castle Drogo. Credit NT Tim Cambourne

National Trust starts to unwrap Castle Drogo as scaffolding comes down

Scaffolding which has enclosed the National Trust’s Castle Drogo for nearly six years has started to come down, as the project to make the castle watertight progresses, however there’s still work to be done both inside and out.

Whilst the project continues, some scaffolding will remain on a smaller scale for final works to complete around the bottom sections of the castle walls. Visitors over the summer will be able to see the exterior slowly being unwrapped as the first phase of the scaffold ‘strike’ to remove the main bulk progresses. It’s expected to take about six weeks to...

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