Celebrate with a free cuppa and a cake at The Beacon, Exeter’s dynamic community centre as we mark our first birthday and a hat trick of successes tomorrow. (Fri May 6)
The volunteer team which runs the centre in Beacon Lane has three reasons to be happy.
• The first successful transition in Exeter of a former county council youth centre, the Knight Club, into a vibrant community centre for Beacon Heath.
• The start tomorrow of its first community weekly Friday drop-in, during May there is a free cuppa and cake on offer.
Exciting news folks! We’re planning a month of celebrations here at The Beacon Community Centre and we’d love your help to make this happen.
We’ve got three great reasons to celebrate at Exeter’s dynamic community centre based in Beacon Heath. The Exeter Foodbank has just agreed to establish a weekly food bank distribution session here and it’s opening on our first birthday – Friday 6 May. Plus, we’ve got a fab new logo which means we can finally get rid of the awful banner at the door entrance and put up a proper sign.
So here’s where you come in lovely, Exeter Daily...
Beacon Nursery, a day care nursery in Beacon Heath are looking forward to welcoming families across Exeter to their easter fayre on Saturday, March 19th 10am - 2pm.
The fayre will have something for everyone from Easter Hunt to Glitter Tattoos and more.
Jonathan Cordery who is Social Media Officer at the nursery says this " It will be a family fun filled day with plenty of activities for children, its also an opportunity for families who are looking for childcare to see what we offer, our staff will be happy to show you around our nursery. An environment where children learn and...
More than 150 children queued to see Santa at a Christmas fair held in Beacon Heath over the weekend.
It was worth the wait as they entered Santa’s Winter Wonderland of magical lights and snow at the Beacon Heath Children’s Centre, while next door in The Beacon Centre there were lots of Christmas stalls, carols by the Hospiscare Choir and a café.
Stalls included Devon Refugee Support, the Labour Party cake stall, Hospiscare, Traid Craft, Willowbrook School and the Campaign for Eastern Fields.
This was the first public event to be held at The Beacon, new community...
Exeter’s newest community centre, The Beacon, is holding its first public event this Saturday 5 December – a Christmas fair.
Come along and see all the months of hard work that the Beacon Vollies (you’d call them volunteers) have put in. They have sorted, cleaned, painted and even put up a new ceiling at The Beacon, which was formerly the Knight Club in Beacon Lane.
They have created a warm, light welcoming space to hold community events, private functions, meetings and already a number of local organsiatons have started using...
We started decorating Exeter’s newest community centre over the weekend and boy does it look better already!
The blue walls have been painted a bright, welcoming white – we’ll get some artwork up there soon, from local people of course, to give it a bit of colour.
We’re doing this again next weekend, there’s still a lot to do, so we’ll be putting on the music, loading up our paintbrushes and enjoying a bit of playful banter as we roll up our sleeves and get stuck in. Come and join us, it’ll be fun!
“We’d had a great time all working together and the main hall now...
Come and join a decorating blitz of Exeter’s exciting new community centre - The Beacon.
Volunteers are spending four days next month transforming the former youth centre into a welcoming space for all ages. We’re calling it The Beacon Blitz – you can sign up for just four hours or more on September 18/ 19 and 25/26.
“We’d love people to come along and help spruce the place up and make it more welcoming,” said Richard Cummings, centre manager. “Previously the building, called The Knight Club was a youth centre but now we want to open it to everyone and create a community...
A donkey-mad grandmother has knitted her 100th toy donkey in aid of The Donkey Sanctuary. Dorothy Harrison, from Beacon Heath, Exeter, started knitting the toys after picking up a knitting pattern on a visit to The Donkey Sanctuary in Sidmouth in 2011 and enjoyed knitting the donkeys so much she set herself the challenge of knitting 100. She says: “I’m quite chuffed really to have done something for something worthwhile. I did the first one and after that I thought, I could do 100 easily.
“I’ve seen some others that other people have made but my granddaughter says that mine are the...
On 29 and 30 July, members of Exeter Youth Squad took part in a sponsored 24-hour famine to raise money for Exeter-based charity St Petrock’s.
The group of 13- to 19-year-olds are raising awareness of homelessness in and around the city as part of a community action project devised by the young people themselves over the past few months.
After identifying homelessness as a key issue in the local area, they decided to hold the sponsored 24-hour famine, which involved participants not eating for a whole day.
Amber Lovelock, a member of the Youth Squad, felt that the...
