Saturday 22 October 11.00am - 3.00pm Price: Free for RSPB Child Members, £3 per Non-Member Child
If you could design your very own wildlife garden, what would it look like? Would it have a pond? Would it have flowers? Would it even have a bug hotel?
Well, come on down to Bowling Green Marsh hide this half-term, get stuck into the mud and build your very own mini garden with us! Go searching around our brand new wildlife garden for inspiration and learn from our friendly volunteers how easy it is to give nature a home.
M&S and Action for Children, a not for profit organisation that provides pre-school and nursery care, are calling on local people to roll up their sleeves and Spark Something Good in a week of volunteering that will positively impact 24 projects at the heart of the community in Exeter and Plymouth.
On Saturday 10 September, we are calling on volunteers to help us create two exciting gardens for the babies at Exeter’s Beacon Nursery and the children at Cedars Pre-School. The gardens will help the children’s development as it provides various opportunities to learn and explore...
M&S and Shekinah, a charity that provides opportunities for people in recovery, are calling on local people to roll up their sleeves and Spark Something Good in a week of volunteering that will positively impact 24 projects at the heart of the community in Exeter and Plymouth.
On Friday 9 September, we are calling on volunteers to help us sort and pack food items for people who are experiencing poverty and homelessness. The work of the project will also provide Shekinah with a new stock room, with more space for upcoming harvest festival donations which will help to support...
Following the phenomenal success of the concert last Christmas which raised nearly £10,000 for CLIC Sargent, on Friday 9th December, La La Choirs will again perform ‘CLIC for Christmas’ at Exeter Cathedral.
For the second year, the event includes running a Devon-wide secondary school choir competition with the winning school choir claiming a featured spot in the concert on the night. Entries were invited from secondary schools all over Devon. The standard of entries was excellent and the panel had a tough job whittling them down to the three finalists.
Paignton Zoo Environmental Park has launched an online In Memoriam book for people with a special affection for the Zoo. And the first names in the book are those of two very special people.
Sylvia and Tony King were long-time Zoo supporters and volunteers. Their son Alan, also a volunteer, recalls: “My father’s parents were keen on the Zoo. They knew Philip Michelmore, who was Herbert Whitley's friend and successor. We were all members of what was then known as the Peacock Association in the late ‘60s. My father started to volunteer after he retired in the late 1980s. He was...
Development Officer appointment set to reach out to people in rural communities National charity The British Polio Fellowship has announced the appointment of a new Development Officer for the South West of England region. Rebecca Colpus joins the charity with over 20 years’ experience in the third sector with a brief to expand and develop on the charity’s existing services in the region and reach out to those members in rural communities. Rebecca’s selection comes on the heels of the appointment of Tara Anderson in Scotland and both job roles underscore The British Polio Fellowship’s...
Zoo keepers at Living Coasts in Torquay are using a hi-tech DNA test to discover the sex of newborn chicks more quickly.
The test, using cells from inside the shell of a newly hatched egg, has been developed by a company called Avian Biotech of Truro, Cornwall.
Senior Living Coasts keeper Amy Fitzgerald explained: “You can use feathers to do the test, but you have to wait until the birds have their full plumage - for penguins this is normally about 12 weeks. All we have to do now is send off pieces of dry eggshell. DNA is extracted from the vascular material lining the...
A Devon business has come to the aid of a local wildlife charity with a donation of white goods.
Sparkworld, based at Heathfield Industrial Estate, Newton Abbot, delivered a heap of domestic appliances to Paignton Zoo, which is a registered charity. The gift included fridges, freezers, microwave ovens and kettles.
Paignton Zoo’s Jenny Paton said: “These items will help hard-working animal staff and the people who support them, like our in-house vet team and our volunteers. We are extremely grateful to Sparkworld for supporting us in this way.”
Exeter Chiefs are throwing their sizeable weight behind the forthcoming ‘Exeter Foundation Charity Walk’ which has been set up to support a minimum of 20 local charities and organisations.
The annual 10-mile sponsored walk, which will start and finish at Sandy Park, takes in a flat and scenic route around the River Exe Valley and is open to keen or social walkers, who are aged 12 years or over.
Helping to raise funds for the club’s official charity, the event will be held on Saturday, May 31st at 10.30am.
Building on the success of previous years, once the walk has...
Over the week commencing 28 April 2014, Ashfords LLP staff cycled an impressive 1,687.31 miles in order to raise donations for their chosen Charity of the Year, Children's Hospice South West (CHSW). CHSW are the only organisation in the South West to provide care for children with life-limiting conditions outside of a hospital environment.
Exercise bikes were placed in the receptions of Ashfords' Exeter, Taunton, Bristol and London offices and staff cycled in half hour stints throughout the day all week. On the final day, Ashfords moved its cyclathon challenge to...
