Local writer Clive Essame is working with charity CEDA (Community Equality Disability Action) to develop an exciting play set in the African wilderness. The play is about acceptance and is told by the characters all of which are African animals.
The play Impisi will be performed at Exmouth Pavilion on March 12th at 7pm.
Clive writes about disability, difference and acceptance using different African animals to bring the tale to life. Clive is passionate about helping to create a society that is knowledgeable about disability and creates a level playing field for all....
EXE-ARTS is a new programme created by not for profit arts organisation Superact to provide opportunities for people in Exeter to try out different art forms.
The sessions will be held at Exeter Community Centre, 17 St. David’s Hill Exeter, EX4 3RG and take place from 6:30pm – 9:30pm on the following dates:
March 4th Pottery with Patsy Lang March 11th Graffiti Art with Miss C, (Cleo Heard) March 18th Fabric Art with Felicity Shillingford March 25th Lantern making with Emma Brogan
Sessions cost £3 towards materials and refreshments or £10 for all four sessions. You...
EXE-ARTS is a new programme created by not for profit arts organisation Superact to provide opportunities for people in Exeter to try out different art forms.
The sessions will be held at Exeter Community Centre, 17 St. David’s Hill Exeter, EX4 3RG and take place from 6:30pm – 9:30pm on the following dates:
March 4th Pottery with Patsy Lang March 11th Graffiti Art with Miss C, (Cleo Heard) March 18th Fabric Art with Felicity Shillingford March 25th Lantern making with Emma Brogan
Sessions cost £3 towards materials and refreshments or £10 for all four sessions. You...
Community groups in Honiton came together in impressive numbers for an event organised by a partnership of organisations, led by East Devon District Council, at the Beehive Centre in Dowell Street.
The Honiton Together discovery day featured a number of opportunities for groups to share experiences and best practice, discuss the future of community initiatives in the town and, for some, to pitch for funding through a ‘Dragons’ Den’ session.
Honiton Together received funding from central government to support local people and organisations to: • Feel that positive local...
An old people's warden service threatened with being axed because of a funding shortfall looks set to be saved by Exeter City Council.
Devon County Council recently announced that it was withdrawing funding for the warden service for residents in older persons' accommodation because of pressures on its budget.
But the City Council - who manage the accommodation - has stepped in with an offer to fund the service after residents said how much they valued the support.
The warden service provides support to residents living in older persons' accommodation, carrying out...
It was smiles all round on last week as residents turned out in force to support an apple tree planting event arranged by East Devon District Council.
The orchard idea is aimed at creating a more interesting and stimulating environment on a patch of land behind the community centre at Bidmead, Littleham, with local people feeling they have an involvement in the plot.
Tools, gloves and refreshments were provided and there was a real family atmosphere as mums, dads and children from tots to teenagers came along to dig holes and plant the saplings in an area of spare grassland...
A funding project bringing together county, district, town and parish councils is kickstarting community projects across Devon and hopes to do more in 2015
The 'Town and Parish Fund' or TAP is the name given to the initiative whereby Devon County Council allocates £1 per elector per annum and district councils contribute 10p per elector, totalling around £600,000
This money is available for towns and parishes to join together to apply for funding that can make a difference to their communities.
Well over half a million pounds was allocated to a huge range of...
An Exeter charity has just set a new record in its work to prevent good food from being wasted and to support local community organisations across the city.
Devon and Cornwall Food Association, based in South Street, rescued over six tonnes of edible produce in December 2014, bringing the total saved last year to over 26,000 kilos.
Through its work with volunteers, in-date foodstuffs which are destined for landfill or incineration are collected daily and stored temporarily.
They are then re-distributed to dozens of community groups which support some of the most...
The Young at Heart Club is a for men and woman who are 50 years young or more.
You are welcome to go along if you like music, games, quizzes, fascinating talks, bingo or just meeting people and making new friends.
The club gives people the opportunity to have fun in a relaxed environment. Meetings are every Friday from 1.30pm-3.30pm at St Sidwell’s Community Centre, Sidwell Street, Exeter.
The programme for the next few weeks is as follows:
A new community photography exhibition was launched last weekend at a celebratory event held at the Glorious Art House on Fore Street, Exeter.
The launch marked the start of the ‘Our Lives, Our Community, Our Voice’ project’s first photography exhibition.
The project, which has now run three courses in Exeter, provides participants with access to photographic equipment in facilitated workshops. It is managed by the Olive Tree Association/Devon Grapevine in partnership with Exeter-based social enterprise Meridian RAW and is funded by The People Health Trust.
