No doubt you've eaten lots of chocolate by now, so why not work it off with our Eggs-minster marsh challenge?
Meet us in the Exminster Marsh car park, behind the Swan's Nest pub and we'll set you on your way to some wild challenges. Complete all the tasks and the kids will win treats.
Our nature reserve is alive with wild activity at this time of year and our friendly guides will help you make the most of your visit, as well as help you in your challenge!
So what could be better? Nature, excercise and prizes! You may want to bring your wellies, too...
Don't make any plans for the weekend until you've checked out our guide to what's on in and around Exeter:
THEATRE
All Our Yesterdays Friday, Barnfield Theatre, Exeter All Our Yesterdays is one of the biggest shows of its kind in the UK, taking the audience on a breathtaking musical journey through the 40s, 50s, 60s, and finally into the some of the beautiful harmonies of the 1970s. Shows at 2.30pm and 7.30pm. Tickets £14, £13 conc. www.barnfieldtheatre.org.uk
HMS Pinafore Friday & Saturday, Northcott Theatre, Exeter One of the most popular G&S operas,...
Local businesses are supporting Hospiscare’s Easter Egg-stravaganza by raffling luxury Easter Eggs to raise money to help people living with a terminal illness in Exeter, mid and east Devon.
Many businesses have already started raffling their Eggs, including the University of Exeter.
Alison Ramsden, Communication Manager for Campus Services at the University of Exeter said: “We are delighted to be supporting Hospiscare with their Easter Egg-stravaganza. We have seven eggs out in total across our campuses in various locations from our Family Centre to student residences and...
While most young people have been thinking of Easter eggs and Easter bunnies, students at the Centre for the Creative Industries at Exeter College have been welcoming their special Easter gift – that of a life-sized Gorilla sculpture.
The Easter arrival is Exeter College’s support for Paignton Zoo’s celebration of 90 years of conservation, aimed at engaging communities with a mass exhibition of public art to raise awareness and funds to help the Cross River Gorillas of Nigeria –t he world’s most threatened species of gorilla and in danger of extinction, and marks the culmination of...
Easter is the time for moving away from death to seek new life in unexpected ways and in unexpected places. In Christian terms, no longer is the love of God confined to the past but rather opens out to embrace the future. Yet there are ways in which the future can be found in the past.
Older cultures remind us of the importance of thinking in cycles. Time is not a linear concept but a repeated experience. This is, of course, the ongoing lesson of Nature and the message of calendars. What goes around comes around.
A few weeks ago I was privileged to meet and listen to two...
The Diocese of Exeter has been tweeting the whole passion story, from Palm Sunday, and will continue until sunrise on Easter Sunday. The story has been rewritten for tweeting in the first person and from Jesus’s perspective and will be sent out in ‘real time’ throughout Holy Week. Canon Andrew Godsall said: “The idea with tweeting the passion is to help people relate to a familiar story in a contemporary way. Jesus used contemporary phrases all of the time. He wanted to make people sit up and listen so he used provocative words. Sometimes people got the wrong end of the stick – and maybe...
Storytelling is magic. Especially when it brings strange and wonderful objects to life. On 30 March you can hear talented performer Wilf Merttens tell tales about the unusual objects on show in the Devon Guild’s current exhibition,‘Transplantation’. Wilf, who ‘tells poems, brings legends, jumps about’ - has won awards for his vibrant performances (Storyteller of the Year 2009, Bristol Storytelling slam prize) which entertain young and old alike. On Easter Saturday he will draw inspiration from the pieces of contemporary narrative jewellery displayed in the Guild gallery until Sunday 21...
You'll find something to keep the whole family amused in our round-up of events taking place over the Easter holiday:
Killerton Estate, Broadclyst
28 March-15 April: Easter egg trails - Follow the Easter egg trail around the garden and claim your chocolate prize, 11am-4pm daily. £2 per child includes a chocolate egg.
29 March: Burrow Farm on the Killerton Estate is celebrating the launch of their farm shop’s new range of products by holding a family fun day. This free event will be open from 10am till 3pm and there will be something for everyone including a...
Several thousand passengers are expected to fly from or into Exeter Airport over the Easter period, with outbound travellers on Thursday’s Thomson flight likely to be enjoying the warmer weather in Sharm el Sheikh with temperatures over 30 degrees.
Many of the outbound passengers over the Easter week will also be seeking the sun in the Canaries or mainland Spain, and the first of Exeter’s new Barcelona flights will be departing on Sunday.
Matt Roach, Exeter Airport’s managing director said: “We are very pleased with the bookings for our busiest period of the year so far,...
Exeter Racecourse’s Family Day on April 2 looks set to be one of the best free days out for children during the Easter holidays. And with two adults tickets available for just £15, it’s without doubt one of the best value for money days there is.
There are stacks of things for children to enjoy, including a behind the scenes tour of the racecourse, a running race down the home straight on the race course, face painting, a quiz, the chance to go on an equine simulator and pretend you’re a jockey and question and answer sessions with some of the country’s top jockeys.
