Energy company E.ON is offering under 13 football teams in Exeter the chance to get themselves kitted out for free with the launch of its new ‘Power Kicks’ competition. Winning teams will receive 15 full youth kits in sizes and colours of their choosing. This new scheme is part of E.ON’s commitment to supporting the communities where many of its customers live and its employees work. There is no requirement to be an E.ON customer to take part, and entries can be submitted by football clubs or school teams via the E.ON website between 9th and 30th October 2017. Michael Lewis, E.ON’s Chief...
On Thursday 19 October, arts venue and charity, Exeter Phoenix, will launch the You Make Exeter Phoenix fundraising appeal to raise £60,000 for major refurbishments.
The buzzing arts centre is getting a face lift and exciting new contemporary art gallery facilities thanks to funding awarded by Arts Council England for an exciting new capital project. This summer, it was announced that Exeter Phoenix would receive additional capital funding for a specific project to invest in gallery spaces and improve visitor facilities. The Arts Council agreed to invest £187k towards the £244k...
West Country accountants and financial planners Old Mill have moved up five places in Accountancy Age’s Top 50+50, reflecting the fact that they had another highly successful year. The Top 50+50 is published each year by leading industry publication Accountancy Age. It is based on fee income and is seen as one of the definitive lists of the UK’s leading accountancy firms. Old Mill, which looks after more than 5,000 private and business clients from its offices in Exeter, Melksham, Wells and Yeovil increased fee income by 9 per cent in just a year, taking its total fee income to £18.11m....
Just over a year after opening, Tickety-Boo in Ottery St Mary has reached the finals of the prestigious Devon Tourism Awards.
The awards attracted 205 entries with 76 finalists with Tickety-Boo in the final three of the Café / Tearoom of the Year category.
Home-cooked food, local sourcing and value-for-money have combined to make the café a popular choice not just for local people but visitors to East Devon.
Tickety-Boo’s bespoke play kingdom gives children the opportunity for rainy-day play, with affordable menu options tailored around smaller appetites making the...
Local independent adoption agency and charity, Families for Children, are appealing for potential adopters to come forward who will consider adopting a sibling group. If adoptive families cannot be found soon then it is likely that these brothers and sisters will be separated.
New research published today to mark National Adoption Week (16-22nd October) says that 57% of the children in the South West waiting for adoptive families are brothers and sisters in groups of 2 or more. Figures from national adoption information service, First4Adoption, based on the latest government...
Most managers and businesses these days are aware that keeping employees feeling positive is a great way of improving efficiency, morale and, in turn, productivity. It isn’t brain science; employees who have the means to work effectively and take proper breaks, and whose loyalty has been won over, are the best employees you could ask for. If you have any problems with either productivity or an atmosphere that isn’t conducive to productivity then read on to find out these four benefits you can offer your employees, and how it’ll increase satisfaction.
Two randomly selected Devon teachers attending this year’s Farmwise Devon event at Westpoint, Exeter, have won free places to take part in the campaign's first teacher training programme on food and farming.
1,400 children from 32 schools attended this week's event, sponsored by Mole Valley Farmers. Children were taken on a journey from field to fork, enjoying practical and hands on tasks through 12 educational zones including Beef, Fruit, Forestry, Dairy and Arable.
Farmwise Devon educates primary school children about where good food comes from. Now in its fifth year, the...
Humbug! Brand new Christmas show set to delight audiences in Exeter's newly re-opened St Nicholas Priory.
Award-winning film and theatre company, Wandering Tiger, are staging Humbug! their brand new Christmas show at Exeter's historic St Nicholas Priory from Thursday 14 – Sunday 24 December 2017.
Inspired by Charles Dickens’ classic ghost story ‘A Christmas Carol’, Humbug! will be the first public event to take place in over two years in the recently restored medieval priory, which is just off Exeter's Fore Street.
Humbug! will transport audiences back in time to...
An on-call firefighter at Danes Castle will be taking part in the Trans-America Bike Race in June 2018 to raise money for the Fire Fighters Charity and Wooden Spoon Devon.
The race involves cycling 4,300 miles across 10 US states in around a month.
Brian Murray retired as Chief Fire Officer from Highlands and Islands Fire Service in 2010 after a 30-year career, having served in numerous brigades and at the Fire Service College.
After moving to Exeter in 2013, Brian joined the on-call crew at Danes Castle. He said: “I could not resist the challenge as I had always...
An Exeter-based accountancy firm is continuing to build international links after helping to organise a successful trade mission to China.
Two partners from PKF Francis Clark, which has eight offices across the South and South West, gave presentations on doing business in the UK to an audience of 140 Chinese businesses.
Andrew Killick, Head of Corporate Finance, and Martin Aldridge, Business Services Partner, were accompanied by Yanwen Huang from PKF Francis Clark’s Poole office who helped with language and cultural translation.
