A local company who raise funds for a children’s cancer charity have teamed up with Exeter Chiefs to make a day to remember for local families who have been affected by cancer.
Adopstar, an advertising company based in Cullumpton, are a corporate partner of CLIC Sargent, the UK’s leading cancer charity for children and young people. Now the company have gone that extra mile by setting up a special day for local families at Premiership champions, Exeter Chiefs.
11 families, who have all been supported by CLIC Sargent, went along to Sandy Park for exclusive behind the scenes...
Staff from Barratt Homes in Exeter have completed one of their most ambitious charity challenges – a skydive over the South Devon countryside.
Thirteen brave souls from the housebuilder’s regional division in Exeter completed the challenge to raise money for the Exeter Foundation.
“We wanted to do something together to raise money for our chosen charity and all the departments worked together on the fundraising,” said skydiver Kimberley Heywood-Cann.
“It was a completely unreal experience with some really nervous so everyone did fantastically well to overcome their...
Workspace provider Regus is offering free business lounge access at its centres in Devon for World Car Free Day on Friday 22nd September. The initiative is designed to help professionals avoid a car journey into work, and instead work from a professional environment within walking or cycling distance from home.
World Car Free Day encourages motorists to give up their cars for a day in favour of walking, cycling or using public transport and hundreds of cities and towns across the globe are expected to mark the occasion.
Unnecessary carbon emissions, wasted time and loss of...
Exeter star Henry Slade says the Chiefs are well aware rivals Wasps will be out for revenge when the two sides lock horns in Sunday’s Aviva Premiership clash at Sandy Park (3pm).
In the first meeting between the two since last May’s Premiership Final at Twickenham – which the Devonians won 23-20 after extra-time – again there is little to choose between either club ahead of this round four encounter.
Last Friday’s 41-10 victory for Rob Baxter’s side at Worcester Warriors lifted the Chiefs back to the summit of the division, a spot they held onto following the weekend...
Lidl UK has announced that its new Exeter RDC, which is due to open this November, will create up to 500 full and part-time jobs for the South West.
Recruitment has already begun as the company aims to recruit local talent for a number of different roles, including warehouse operatives and desk clerks, kitchen assistants and porters to work in the catering team, with jobs currently being advertised on the company’s careers website.
Lidl UK currently has a 20,000 strong workforce across England, Scotland and Wales. In October 2015 the supermarket became the first to...
The tennis world will always have that news that will leave people wondering. It could be a huge upset is taking place where someone that is ceded at number 50 or 100 is walloping someone within the first 5. It may be a new comer beating the hell out of a multiple grand slam winner. In all these, the only thing that gains is the suspense and the glamorous nature of the game. If everything becomes predictable, the beauty of the game will be lost. So, all these are actually welcomed.
However, the news coming from India seems to be the most current upset, and it says that two of the...
“Delighted” YoungMinds confirmed as charity partner
The Maynard School is once again delighted to be hosting and organising the fantastically popular Exeter Art Show from Friday 20 – Sunday 22 April 2018 and all lovers of art are being urged to put the date in their diaries now to avoid disappointment!
With over 150 locally and nationally recognised exhibitors, including Royal Academicians (RAs), and free entry to the general public, this is one of the largest art exhibitions of its kind in the West Country. The Show always includes a vast choice of media and The Maynard...
Alzheimer’s Research UK (ARUK) has announced more than £500,000 in funding for researchers at the University of Exeter Medical School to advance understanding of how dementia affects the brain.
Announced on World Alzheimer’s Day (Thursday September 21), the charity is investing a total of £577,000 in three leading researchers, to look at different aspects of the cause and progression of dementia.
Professor Clive Ballard, Executive Dean of the University of Exeter Medical School, and a leading dementia researcher, said: “Dementia is key area of our research focus at Exeter,...
Young audiences in Crediton and Tiverton are in for a treat, as Devon-based theatre company Above Bounds bring their hugely popular children’s theatre show - The Ugly Duckling & Other Tales – to Crediton Arts Centre on Saturday 23 September at 3pm and TCAT Tiverton on Saturday 30 September at 2pm. Have you ever felt like you just don’t fit in? Do you think people look at you strangely? That’s exactly how the Ugly Duckling felt before he learnt one very important lesson. Paddle off to Crediton or Tiverton and experience a children’s...
Hospiscare@Home, the new service bringing the expertise of the hospice into the home for residents in and around Budleigh Salterton, Exmouth, Lympstone and Woodbury, has received touching feedback about one of the first patients to use the service.
Earlier this year, Katie, who lived on her own in East Budleigh, was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour and given the prognosis that she had 3 months left to live.
Her best friend Alice explains further: “We knew at the end of 2016 that something wasn’t quite right. Katie and I have been best friends for years but I live...
