Gina Awad, Project Lead of the Exeter Dementia Action Alliance, and 40 staff including seven GPs from St Thomas Health Centre, spent their Saturday morning cycling from Exeter to Exmouth and back again all in aid of raising funds for dementia.
They were inspired following a Dementia Friends information session delivered by Gina, who also volunteers as a Dementia Friends Champion in Exeter, and arranged this event to support her fundraising. Together they have raised approximately £2,300.
Gina’s hour long interactive talk triggered Health Centre staff to join in with her...
A Dementia Awareness Session, given by Gina Awad, was organised as part of staff training at St Thomas Health Centre.
This event was a huge success with staff coming away feeling inspired and motivated to help with promoting Dementia Awareness. Dementia touches many people and our staff wanted to show support for those who live with, or care for, people with Dementia. The staff at St Thomas see the effect that Dementia has on people's lives every day and we were moved to help Gina, who is our local Dementia Champion, with her quest to raise awareness and funding by trekking The...
Exeter's new photography studio is launching a calendar with a difference.
This will not be a selection of saucy kiss me quick poses, rather a celebration of everything that is good about Exeter, and in particular those people that are the lifeblood of the community, the carers, the volunteers, the school dinner lady.
There's one in every road, and without them most of what we take for granted wouldn't exist - or function half as well.
There will be a whole host of people associated with the calendar but Dana Mulligan at Cartridges Solicitors in St...
St Thomas Library are holding a Local History Day on Wednesday 21 January from 11am-4pm.
There will be a speedway memories display and video footage, a real Falcons bike on display, a St Thomas memories display, churches of Exeter photos, a famous personalities display, a rolling slideshow, and pop-up talks as well as the opportunity for people to bring their own photos to show the St Thomas Local History Group.
Local author and historian Tony Lethbridge said: “St Thomas Library Local history open day last year was such an outstanding success we thought we would run it...
Devon and Cornwall Rail Partnership and First Great Western are working together to improve Exeter St Thomas station and are looking for local residents to join in this improvement drive.
The Friends of Exeter St Thomas Station will help plan murals for the station platform walls and some greenery on the platforms and get involved in planting and watering.
The first meeting of the new Friends group will be on Tuesday 13 January at the Riverside Christian Centre, 13-14 Okehampton Street, Exeter, EX4 1DU. Coffee and cakes will be available from 4pm, and the meeting will start...
Cadet Adam Brooks, 16, from 2469 (Exeter St Thomas) Squadron, Air Training Corps, recently competed in the South West region Swimming Championships, winning a gold medal for coming first in the 100m individual medley.
Not content with his gold medal, he also won a silver medal in the 50m butterfly as well a bronze medals as a member of both the 4x50m medley relay team and the 4x50m freestyle relay team.
Adam has been a member of the Air Training Corps since October 2011, when he first joined 2469 Squadron as a junior cadet. Since then he has progressed to senior cadet and...
St Thomas Gospel Choir have won a national award for "Contribution to the UK Gospel Music Industry" in the choir catagory of the PraiseTek Gospel Music Awards 2014. Each year, these awards acknowledge the work of various singers, musicians, choirs, rappers, bands and media personnel working in the UK gospel music scene.
Choir director, Kathy Rufolo and her fiance, Dale Hurrell, who sings bass in the group, went to London to receive the award on behalf of the choir with nearly 50 members.
St Thomas Gospel Choir was established in 2006 and has grown steadily over...
Three men from London have been given ASBOs preventing them from entering Devon or Cornwall. On the 7 October Devon and Cornwall Police were successful in obtaining ASBOs against the three individuals. They are Youseff Addow aged 28 years, Deeq Juni aged 33 years, and Issa Juni aged 25 years (all pictured).
The ASBO secured prevents the three men from entering the Counties of Devon and Cornwall for the next five years.
All three men are currently serving substantial prison sentences for offences committed in London. Application for an ASBO against all three men was applied...
Around 1,200 streetlights in residential streets in St Thomas and Exwick will be converted to part-night lighting this week (Thursday 8 May). Streetlights previously on all-night will be switched off from about 12:30am to 5:30am, before coming on again until dawn. The change is the latest phase of Devon County Council’s controversial programme to reduce costs and carbon emissions, having already converted over 44,000 residential street lights across the county. Lighting on the main roads and busiest routes, including Exwick Road, Okehampton Street, Redhills and Kinnerton Way, will remain...
Pandora Munoz has won first prize in a design a Doctor Who monster competition run by St Thomas Library.
The library, situated in Church road, Exeter, hosted an award event presenting Pandora with an upgraded version of the design she created.
The monster was redrawn and coloured by Simon Brett a local artist who works for the longest running scifi magazine in the world, Starburst. He presented Pandora with a framed original of her creature: ‘The Soul Stealer’.
Simon was impressed, saying: "Its inventive design and fascinating back story with special powers would...
