Rainbow Living is very excited to announce the charity has been selected by Exeter Golf and Country Club as the Golf Captains’ Charity of the Year for 2018/19.
Over the next 12 months Exeter Golf and Country Club is aiming to raise £10,000 for Rainbow Living, which is a local volunteer-run charity providing accommodation for adults with learning and other disability. Fundraising has already commenced with the Golf Dinner and Dance event raising £1,000. Many more fundraising events are planned throughout the year, including raffles, auctions and coffee mornings.
Seaton will be kick starting its Christmas celebrations on Saturday 1st December with the return of its Christmas Carnival, light switch on and festive markets. The day will start with the Seaton Eats Boutique and Seaton Artisan Market both taking place at Windsor Gardens. To continue the celebrations into the evening, Seaton will host its annual light switch on, Christmas Carnival and late-night shopping bringing residents a full day of Christmas fun. Seaton Eats Boutique will be at Windsor Gardens next to the Christmas tree from noon to 8pm. For those looking to get into the Christmas...
Recycle Devon’s new Reuse page went live this week and is one of the most comprehensive online resources on reuse, repair and upcycling in the UK.
The launch follows the anniversary of the worldwide Repair Café movement last month which saw hundreds of enthusiastic residents flock to Devon’s numerous Repair Cafes. Repair Cafés are free meeting places where people can bring their broken possessions to be fixed by expert volunteers instead of buying new. The new page ensures that everything you need to know is in one place including links to where to find your local Repair Café and...
On Tuesday 4th December, the Topsham Christmas Shopping Night comes to the town with a spectrum of independent shops including an evening market, festive entertainment, special offers, promotions and in-store activity.
Free to attend, shoppers can warm up with a host of hot dishes and drinks, enjoy an array of live festive music and Christmas goodies and gifts to buy, all in a special ambience on the Christmas lit High Street and Fore Street, leading down to Topsham Quay.
A new volunteer group, Love Topsham, formed from residents and traders in the town to help keep the...
Meet santa, have some mince pies, cake, mulled wine and listen to the lovely Liberty Sisters! A truly fun event for all the family, all in aid of the Lord Mayor's Charity SSAFA Devon.
The Exmouth Players present “Alice!”, a play adapted and directed by Nick Lawrence based on the famous books of Lewis Carroll, with original music and musically directed by Ian D Crew at
The Blackmore Theatre, Bicton Street, Exmouth on the following dates and times:
• Sat 8th & Sun 9th December at 2.30pm
• Tues 11th – Friday 14th December at 7.30pm
• Sat 15th & Sun 16th December at 2.30pm
This is a family orientated version of Alice’s adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-glass. Many of the much-loved characters from the Lewis...
Top wedding suppliers from across the south west came together for a prestigious awards ceremony at Rockbeare Manor, outside Exeter.
The venue played host to 175 guests who were attending the south west regional finals of the Wedding Industry Awards – the only regional and national client voted awards in the wedding industry.
The evening recognises the huge wealth of talent available in the wedding industry across the region, ranging from venues, photographers, caterers, hairdressers and everything else in between.
It was the first time that this beautiful venue,...
The Donkey Sanctuary has won a gold award in the prestigious 2018 Devon Tourism Awards. The International animal welfare charity, based in Sidmouth, picked up the award in the ‘Large Attraction of the Year’ category at a ceremony held at the Highbullen Hotel, Golf and Country Club, near Umberleigh yesterday (Thursday 22 November). John Crouch, visitor engagement manager at The Donkey Sanctuary says: “We are over the moon to win a Gold award in the Devon Tourism Awards. This is the first year that we have entered the awards and to come away with a Gold is truly amazing. Devon is in an...
Paignton Zoo Environmental Park has become the only institution in the UK to keep a rare and special type of South American toad. The Devon zoo is now home to around 30 harlequin toads, Atelopus spumarius, after adding more individuals from Manchester Museum to its existing group. Atelopus is a genus – a group of species – of small, attractive true toads from Central and South America. Atelopus are just a few centimetres long, with narrow pointed heads, smooth skin and beautifully-coloured patterning. They live on the tropical rainforest floor and in the leaf-litter near streams; breeding...
If it seems like your child’s school just can’t find a good science teacher, it isn’t just your opinion. UK schools are experiencing teacher shortages and the situation seems to be aggravating.
The problem has been building for years because teacher development and retention hasn’t been a high enough priority until several recent reports revealed the severity of the problem. Let’s take a deeper look at the hard data coming out in recent reports on the teacher shortage and the reasons behind it.
