Free Parkour Taster Sessions

Event Date: 
29/05/2015 - 10:00am
Venue: 
Exeter Sports Academy

For the first time this year Exeter's Street Motion Freerunning Academy are running a morning of free taster sessions in Parkour & Freerunning. If you have never done parkour/freerunning with us before and want to find out what all the fuss is about, now is your chance to find out!

If you have not been to a Street Motion class before, participation is free.

Limited availability so book early to avoid missing out. – Scroll down for on-line booking form.

Available time slots: 10am – 10:45am, 11am – 11:45 am or 1.30pm – 2.15pm

Suitable for all ages...

Align your culture, leadership and strategy - Business Breakfast - Sampson Hall - Thursday 21st May - Southernhay House

Event Date: 
21/05/2015 - 7:30am to 9:00am
Venue: 
Southernhay House Hotel

Does your culture influence your organisations leadership style?

Do you take your culture into account when designing your future strategy?

A business that aligns its culture with its leadership and strategy is one that is destined to succeed particularly if it is also in tune with the environment it exists within.

This session will allow you to understand the importance of culture, leadership and strategy to your business and the benefits that aligning them will bring to your business in terms of competitive advantage.

You will see return on investment as...

Align your culture, leadership and strategy - Business Breakfast - Sampson Hall - Thursday 21st May - Southernhay House

Event Date: 
21/05/2015 - 7:30am to 9:00am
Venue: 
Southernhay House Hotel

Does your culture influence your organisations leadership style?

Do you take your culture into account when designing your future strategy?

A business that aligns its culture with its leadership and strategy is one that is destined to succeed particularly if it is also in tune with the environment it exists within.

This session will allow you to understand the importance of culture, leadership and strategy to your business and the benefits that aligning them will bring to your business in terms of competitive advantage.

You will see return on investment as...

Sandy Park b2b Breakfast - 15th May2015

Event Date: 
15/05/2015 - 8:00am to 9:45am
Venue: 
Sandy Park Conference & Banqueting Centre Sandy Park Way Exeter, Devon, EX2 7NN

The guest speaker at the May b2b Business Breakfast is Phil Sampson, founder of Sampson Hall Ltd.

Former Royal Marine Phil is an expert strategist who has a deep understanding of strategy, leadership and organisational culture and how they influence organisational development.

Sampson Hall have successfully delivered Strategy and Governance packages into over 400 businesses both large and small, local and international and have worked in both the public and private sectors. Sampson Hall are proven experts in delivering Cultural Change through Strategy and Leadership and...

Rainbow Run

Event Date: 
13/06/2015 - 1:00pm to 4:30pm
Venue: 
Exeter Racecourse

Get showered with every colour of the rainbow in the UK’s craziest 5k!

Fancy taking part in a 5k run with a difference? Rainbow Run is not a race or about speed or fitness; it’s about celebration, having crazy fun with friends and raising a smile for your local children’s hospice.

Exeter’s Rainbow Run will take place at Exeter Racecourse on Sunday 13th June 2015. All runners dress in white and as they reach the ‘Rainbow Zones’, they are showered with fluorescent powder paint – reaching the finish line covered in 5 different colours. Participants are able to run, jog or walk...

Why Not? What If?

Event Date: 
28/02/2015 - 7:00pm
Venue: 
Studio 36, St Leonard's, Exeter

Studio 36 in the unlikely setting of an artist’s studio in St Leonards, Exeter, will host a lively tongue in cheek performance by skilful musicians, song writers, poets, & artists of various kinds challenging authoritarian notices on Saturday 28 February.

Do Not Do This! Watch Out for That! No guns, drugs, biking, ball games, jumping from bridges, dogs, parrots or balloons. Look out too for lethal electrics, biting donkeys, vertical drops, heavy seas and submerged objects!

These notices which have inspired the ‘ Why Not? What If?’ event have poured in from family and...

Fairies found in Exeter!

Authored by mrowl
Posted: Tue, 02/17/2015 - 7:46am

Are there fairies at the bottom of your garden?

Maybe not, but Exeter's Fizz Photography have created a magical wonderland in their studio that will have you rubbing your eyes in disbelief.

Award winning photographer Jill English is now offering a Fizz Fairy photo session at her luxury studio in Bowhill House Exeter.

Jill says: "Every little girl has a Tinkerbell just wanting to escape, and we have so much fun the children pretty soon forget I'm taking their photos".

It makes for a fab fun fairy experience, and the photos are so natural,...

Highbullen Hotel appoints Ronnie Orr as Resort Director

Authored by SophyNorris
Posted: Tue, 02/03/2015 - 11:08am

3rd February 2015. Highbullen Hotel, Golf and Country Club is today announcing the appointment of Ronnie Orr as Resort Director.

Ronnie is already in post, having joined the team in November, and is focused on developing all aspects of the guest experience throughout the Resort as plans to grow the existing business continue.

Since being bought by new owner and property entrepreneur Frank Chapman in 2013, the hotel has undergone a significant transformation, with £5 million being invested in improvements across the estate.

All 37 rooms have been modernised and...

Snap up tickets for TEDxExeter 2015

Now in its fourth year, it is expected to be more popular than ever. Last year all 460 tickets for the event were snapped up in a week. This year, organisers expect them to go even faster.

TEDx is a programme of local, self-organised events licensed by TED and made possible by local volunteers who want to engage their communities. The organisers have brought together an inspiring range of speakers who will take the long view in their talks. “We aim to take the long view back into the past, and explore how it has shaped the world we now live in,” said Claire Kennedy, licensee &...

Cyclists donate over £6000 to Foundation

Over £6,000 has been raised for the Exeter Foundation by a group of nine cyclists, who cycled approximately 300 miles around the borders of Devon.

The Tomahawk Tour raised a total of £12,271, which has been split between the Exeter Foundation and Exeter Youth Rugby.

Foundation XV member South West Communications Group (swcomms) played a major role in the Tomahawk Tour, which took place between the 3rd and 6th of September.

The company’s managing director Harry Langley helped organise the 300-mile event and two swcomms’ employees, Dave Maskill and Timm Sharples, were...

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