This Saturday hundreds of runners will tackle the 5km course at the National Trust’s Killerton estate to celebrate the fifth anniversary of parkrun and will be baking a birthday cake to mark the occasion.
Killerton was the first National Trust property to work with parkrun to host the popular 5km run.
The free run takes place every Saturday at 9am, and the number of runners has grown from 44 at the first Killerton parkrun to over 370 on the busiest ever day. The parkrun organisers hope to break the record this week as the event reaches its five year milestone.
Come and join the trail around Heavitree of stall holders selling a range of items from preloved items to specialist craft and superbly yummy baked goodies. This is a wonderful way to get to know your neighbourhood and your community as a social event with the potential to find hidden treasure on the stalls as you go!
Join us at http://www.jumbletrail.com/event/EX12PH2015
Come along to your local RPSCA Shelter and enjoy a fun day of stalls, games and a dog show on Sunday 28 June from 11am until 4pm – all raising funds for the Shelter!
Little Valley Animal Shelter is based just outside Exeter at Black Hat Lane, Bakers Hill, Exeter EX2 9TA (just past Pocombe Bridge) and looks after abandoned or mistreated animals from the local area – dogs, cats, rabbits, ferrets, guinea pigs, rodents, birds and sometimes a few more unusual creatures!
The Shelter is not normally open to the public, so the charity’s annual Shelter Day is a rare opportunity to...
Jamie Oliver helped a nine-year-old Exeter girl create a very special birthday for her terminally ill dad.
Katie Cowell wrote to the celebrity chef saying she and her dad were big fans and could he help make her dad’s birthday one to remember. Jamie immediately sent a signed copy of his latest book Comfort Food personalised to the family.
“Katie was so excited when the book arrived and wanted to give it to her dad Chris straight away but she agreed to wait until his birthday today,” said mum Clair.
Chris is a Hospiscare patient so when Katie decided she wanted to...
Can you believe it?! Otton's Haberdashery turns ONE on Saturday 11th October!
Pop in and see us in the shop for fun, have-a-go workshops running all day. Try your hand at scrappy fabric bunting, a washi tape flag garland, and button heart decorations! And of course, plenty of cake for all...
We're open 10am to 5.30pm as usual - see you there!
A woman from Woodbury near Exeter who lost her husband to a brain tumour one year ago has visited local coffee shop Coffee#1 in Princesshay Shopping Centre, Exeter, to say a big thank you to staff who are currently helping raise funds for Hammer Out, the South West’s only brain tumour charity, through the sale of charity gingerbread men.
From August 4 to November 2, each time a Gingerbread man is sold for £1 in Exeter’s Coffee#1 shop or any of the award-winning coffee chain’s 34 other shops in the South West and South Wales, a 50p donation will be made to Hammer Out, which supports...
Teas and coffees and cakes will all be on offer at an Autumn Bazaar organised by Headway Devon’s centre in Exmouth.
The event will take place from 10.30am-2.30pm on Thursday 31st October at the Open Door Centre on Church Street.
Centre manager, Diana Russell, says, “Events like this are a great way for us to raise funds for the centre and let people know about the vital work that is going on right here in the local community.
“Our cake sales are always popular in Exmouth and we’re very grateful to all the members of the public who come in to see us to escape the...
It's baking nicely............The BIGGEST cake event the South West has ever seen, coming March 2014 to Westpoint, Exeter , bringing with it a whole host of exhibitors offering the latest in cake, baking and decorating supplies.
Featuring demonstrations, baking workshops and displays from industry professionals as well as hands-on events and competitions for the enthusiastic amateur to the skilled cake decorator.
There will also be a number of very familiar faces joining us at the evnt - keep an eye out for more details soon!
A life-sized penguin cake has been made to mark a conservation charity’s tenth birthday.
The special cake, in the shape of a macaroni penguin, celebrates the first decade of Living Coasts, Torquay’s coastal zoo and aquarium.
This feat of culinary engineering is a 7-tier reinforced fruit cake smothered in marzipan and icing. It is some 60 cm (2 ft) tall and weighs around 15 kg (33 pounds). It was created by Hallett’s the Bakers, the leading South Devon craft bakers, who supply the Living Coasts cafe.
Helen Hallett, who made the cake, said: “I built a tower of fruit...
