The third annual Xpression FM Charity football match is taking place on Sunday 23 March. The match is being held on the Rubber Crumb at the University of Exeter Sports Park and will feature a team of pundits from the University’s radio station taking on a team of Student Guild Staff and Athletics Union Sports Team Members.
The event will raise money for the Adam Stansfield Foundation, a local charity set up in honour of the former Exeter City striker who tragically died of bowel cancer in 2010. Last year the event raised over £2,000 for the foundation and the organisers hope to...
The third annual Xpression FM Charity football match is taking place on Sunday 23 March.
The match is being held on the Rubber Crumb at the University of Exeter Sports Park and will feature a team of pundits from the University’s radio station taking on a team of Student Guild Staff and Athletics Union Sports Team Members.
The event will raise money for the Adam Stansfield Foundation, a local charity set up in honour of the former Exeter City striker who tragically died of bowel cancer in 2010. Last year the event raised over £2,000 for the foundation and the organisers...
Cafe at 36 are organising their fourth quiz night to be held at St James Park on Friday 21st March 2014. Come along and join in the fun, teams of up to 5 people may enter and the fee is £3 per person.
All proceeds raised go towards Age UK Exeter to help support vulnerable older people in Exeter and prevent social isolation.
There'll be a licenced bar, and a Ploughman's Supper if you're feeling peckish.
It's a great night out and very social!
£3 per person and winning teams of each round during the evening will get receive an Uglibun to...
Entries are now open for the UK’s craziest, most colourful sponsored 5k event for all the family – the Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW) Rainbow Run at Exeter Racecourse on Sunday 8 June.
You can run it. You can walk it. You can even skip it.
However you choose to do it – the organisers guarantee you will cross the finishing line a vision of colour and wearing the biggest smile.
Just make sure you wear a white t-shirt, and clothes you don't mind getting messy because as you pass through the five paint stations, you will showered with different coloured powder...
With spring finally pushing through the last remnants of winter, St Paul’s Church in Honiton is set to play host to a Spring Violin Recital on Wednesday 19 March at 7.30pm.
The event, sponsored by Gilbert Stephens Solicitors, will feature Devon violinist Marie Langrishe. Marie is 19 and lives near Honiton. She started learning the violin aged 7, and continued musical studies whilst studying at Maynard School in Exeter, where she led both the school orchestras and the school quartet for a number of years.
During this time she gained Distinction in her Grade 8 violin, played...
A Devon conservation charity is coming to the aid of a native species under threat from its bolder American cousins.
The Whitley Wildlife Conservation Trust, based at Paignton Zoo, has teamed up with the Environment Agency and Buglife – The Invertebrate Conservation Trust to help the white-clawed crayfish.
The white-clawed crayfish (Austropotamobius pallipes) is one of the largest freshwater invertebrates in the UK but is under threat of extinction in the wild because of the introduced American signal crayfish, which out-competes its British counterpart for food and carries...
Members of a local gym teamed up to help Paignton Zoo’s orang utans.
A group from Winners 2000 Fitness in Paignton worked in heavy mud to build a new climbing frame on one of the islands used by the great apes.
Emily Rogers from Paignton Zoo said: “They made light work of the huge task. There were more than twenty large wooden poles that needed erecting on the island and the team worked amazingly well together in very difficult conditions.”
The 16, who gave up their free time to help the charity, conquered the task three hours ahead of schedule. As a thank you they...
Almost 200 members of the public have signed up to be a part of this sponsored sleep out on Saturday 15th March at The Guildhall Shopping Centre, Exeter.
Event organiser, Sophie Hodge, says “we are overwhelmed by the support of the community. So many people have come together to make a difference in the lives of homeless young people and I just want to take this opportunity to say a massive thank you to each of them.”
Radio Exe are the media sponsors, helping to host the event on the night. Thomas Westcott and Gilbert Stephens have sponsored Sleep Easy and Barclays,...
This year Living Coasts, Torquay’s coastal zoo and aquarium, is celebrating fish in all their forms. Fantastic Fish is a year-long event promoting sustainable fishing and a greater awareness of just how great fish are. There will be fish trails, fish talks and fish arts and crafts.
Clare Rugg, operations manager at the charity, said: “Some fish species are part of the collection - others are food! Fish are amazing, vital, beautiful and useful.”
The Living Coasts aquarium has a collection of fish from local waters, from the mangrove regions of the world and a collection of...
Men and women in the South West are being called on to clear out their cupboards, dig through their drawers and donate any unwanted items to TK Maxx’s fundraising campaign for Cancer Research UK - Give Up Clothes for Good.
Give Up Clothes for Good is the UK’s largest and longest running charity clothing collection partnership. Since 2004 the campaign has raised £13.5 million for Cancer Research UK, with over £9 million for research into children's cancers.
People are being urged to drop off their unwanted clothing, accessories and quality homeware in the special boxes...
