Exeter City Futures has launched a brand new initiative, called Net Zero Heroes which aims to celebrate local individuals, families and groups of people who are taking action on the climate and helping to deliver the city’s Net Zero Exeter 2030 Plan. Net Zero Heroes has been launched for #EarthDay – a global awareness campaign to drive positive action for the planet.
Throughout the pandemic, residents, families and workers have come together as a community, changing their habits, buying local, pooling resources and supporting the more vulnerable members of the community....
I have worked as an environmental journalist and climate communicator for many years. Climate change concerns me greatly, as I care deeply for all life on this planet and I have two young daughters who will one day inherit the world we have created. Effective climate action is imperative, and it begins at a local level.
Although I have worked on a national and even global scale advocating for climate action, local community has always been at the heart of what I do -it’s where I started out and I am on the committee of a local community group and have been a school governor for...
Exeter City Football Club players Jake Taylor, Matt Jay and Nigel Atangana took a break from training to support a massive community effort to provide food for Exeter’s most vulnerable children and their families.
Exeter CITY Community Trust, in partnership with Exeter City Futures, has undertaken the huge task of assembling substantial parcels of food, personal care products, and energy vouchers for around 550 vulnerable families in Exeter and Cranbrook.
Funding of £50,000 for the initiative has come from Devon County Council as part of its winter grant scheme. Exeter...
Inspired by cycling to and from school - come rain or shine - with his young granddaughter, Exeter businessman Mick Green has developed a new initiative to inspire others to join them.
The Cycling Whatever The Weather campaign has been backed by local cycling charity Ride On – Cycling for All and Exeter City Futures and sponsored by Exeter solicitors Cartridges Law.
Mick, who only took to the bike in the first lockdown in March, said he wanted people to consider cycling as an alternative to driving wherever possible. He added: “As a previously ‘diesel polluting school...
Exeter’s Tesco stores have joined a city-wide effort to contribute food and gifts to children and families in critical need of support this festive season.
It is estimated that more than 700 families in the city may go hungry this Christmas. Tesco has responded by donating to a local Christmas Hamper campaign to provide the vital support families need.
Ian Dyer, Store Manager at Tesco Exeter Vale, said: “In what has already been a challenging year, it’s important that we do whatever we can to make sure children and their families do not go hungry this Christmas. We are...
Exeter City Futures has announced the appointment of their new Managing Director, Andrew Hardwick.
Having previously worked as Regional Stores Director for Tesco (Westcountry), Andrew brings 20 years of senior executive management experience across retail, hospitality, leisure, and not-for-profit sectors.
Andrew takes up the role from Liz O-Driscoll, and joins following the curation and publication of the Net Zero Exeter 2030 Plan . As the new Managing Director, Andrew’s focus is to ensure Exeter City Futures delivers effective collaborations that facilitate Exeter’s...
EXETER’s pledge to make the city carbon neutral by 2030 after declaring a climate emergency will be explored at a special conference next month where organisers are calling on business and the community for support.
A wide range of speakers will explore the fields of Energy, Mobility, Sustainability and Capability at the event at Exeter City Football Club, which is free and open to all to attend.
Achieving the goal of a carbon-neutral city can only be achieved with city-wide collaboration and support and the City Council, who declared the climate emergency, have been...
A major festival will take place next year to engage the whole city in developing a shared roadmap for a carbon neutral Exeter.
Exeter City Futures is working alongside Exeter City Council to develop a programme of activities for the Carbon Neutral Festival.
Achieving a carbon neutral city will require the involvement of individuals, communities, businesses and organisations all working together.
The City Council has given Exeter City Futures the responsibility of coordinating a city-wide plan (roadmap) to how the city can work towards achieving the ambitious...
Exeter will strive to become a carbon-neutral city in just over a decade in an ambitious new vision adopted by the City Council.
Councillors recently backed a motion recognising the scale and urgency of the global challenge from climate change, and accepted that the City has a duty to act “quickly, collectively and concertedly” to avoid the worst of the predicted outcomes.
The bold commitment was made today (Friday 15 March) on a day of environmental protests across the country. Cllr Rachel Sutton, Lead Councillor with responsibility for the Low Carbon Task Force, met with...
Exeter City Futures - an independent Community Interest Company that is bringing local government, citizens and the private sector together to tackle Exeter's biggest challenges - have announced a new 12-month campaign, ‘Everyone’s Exeter’, to tackle air pollution in the city following the launch of the 12 Goals for Exeter.
The announcement comes following recent research that found that air pollution is killing more people every year than smoking.
‘Everyone’s Exeter’– launching next month – aims to raise awareness and orchestrate change around transport and energy...
