Devon Wildlife Trust is today celebrating the news that it has received a £13,340.00 funding award from SITA Trust for its project "Meadows for Everyone". Hay meadows are one of England’s rarest habitats. On Dartmoor, after many years of decline, there are now hopes that these spectacularly colourful landscape features could be on the verge of a real renaissance. A Heritage Lottery Fund project is promoting better management for surviving meadows, and a number of owners are cooperating to establish new flowering grasslands on private land. The Meadows for Everyone project will complement...
Strange Weapons - an evening with Garth Hewitt - Garth Hewitt, troubadour, gospel singer and protest singer in concert at Crediton Parish Church, raising money for www.amostrust.org
Drawing on his extensive catalogue of songs old and new, Garth sings songs of struggles and hope, regrets and homecomings. Touring for 40 years Garth has visited areas of poverty, conflict, deprivation, and disaster, prioritizing friendships with local people and bringing them encouragement, but always returning to Europe and the US with personal stories bringing to life media headlines, keeping...
Maternity services at the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust received a good set of results in the latest national survey.
A questionnaire was sent by the Care Quality Commission in the summer to all women who gave birth in February 2015.
Responses were received from 160 mothers who used the RD&E. Maternity services are provided by the Trust at Wonford Hospital, Okehampton, Tiverton and Honiton.
A score of 9.1, towards a maximum of 10, was given to questions about the mums’ labour and birth experiences. The RD&E staff were rated highly at 8.8, and...
Exeter’s only green Father Christmas will be visiting Cricklepit Mill on Sunday 6th December for a day of family fun.
The annual Christmas celebration at Devon Wildlife Trust’s historic mill is only a few minutes’ walk from the High Street and offers families a chance to take a break from the shops and get creative with Christmas crafts!
Christmas at Cricklepit is being held on Sunday 6th December from 11am – 4pm and is a day of free family activities.
Visitors will have the chance to have a go at willow weaving and making natural Christmas decorations ready to hang...
Gail Richards, Northern Devon Healthcare Trust’s vocational and young workforce lead has been named NHS Inclusivity Leader of the Year by the South West Leadership Academy. This is in recognition of her work in engaging and developing learning disability interns across the Trust.
Gail has been a key influence in establishing and delivering a number of workforce programmes that support young and less advantaged people, many of whom would not normally consider a career in health or social care. Many of these people have gone on to fulfilling careers within the Trust.
Tiverton based London Devonshire Trust Limited, have been listed as the ninth fastest growing company in the Westcountry.
In a report, Fast Growth 75, compiled by accountants KPMG and Lloyds bank, the Group, which specializes in asset management, energy, property development and house-building, has climbed three places since last year in the who’s who for businesses who have grown and expanded, created jobs and wealth in the region.
Employing 147 people with a turnover of £30million, the company have interests in commercial and energy related property developments and own...
Members of the public are invited to an exhibition of clinical research currently being undertaken by clinicians at the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, the leading research hospital in the South West Peninsula.
The event takes place on 5th November from 11.30am-1pm in the Research Innovation, Learning and Development (RILD) building on the hospital’s Wonford site. It will include a chance to view presentations on the exciting developments in clinical care currently being investigated by RD&E teams and an opportunity to meet with clinicians to discuss their work....
A project which is working to secure a future for one of Europe’s most endangered bat species has been awarded £707,000 of National Lottery funding.
The Devon Greater Horseshoe Bat Project, which has received the grant via the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), will now work for the next five years across the county to secure the long term future of one of the rarest animals in Northern Europe. The project is being led by the conservation charity Devon Wildlife Trust in a partnership involving 18 other organisations.
The project’s manager is Ed Parr Ferris: "We’re delighted to...
FIVE successful projects launched by the Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust were showcased at one of the industry’s biggest awards events.
The Trust was a multiple finalist in the HSJ Value in Healthcare Awards, which recognise and reward outstanding efficiency and improvement by the NHS.
The Exeter Community Nursing Centre, Exeter cluster pharmacy team and orthopaedic department at North Devon District Hospital were shortlisted for the event at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London.
Also in the spotlight were ComPAS, the Trust’s community patient administration...
The Dissenters Graveyard in Exeter will be open to visitors next weekend
Between 11am and 4pm on Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th September vistiors will be abel to see work in progress to reverse the ravages of time and vandalism and what more needs to be done, view a collapsed underground vault and the entrance to an intact underground vault, inspect transcribed copies of many of the grave inscriptions and read short biographies of some of those buried there.
Theatrical performance tours on the theme of Dissent in Exeter will terminate at the graveyard at approximately 12...
