Specialist insurer Ecclesiastical is giving away another £1million to charities with the return of its Movement for Good awards.
In 2019 more than 2,300 kind-hearted Devon residents voted for over 140 charities across the region.
Last year saw an amazing 98,000 people around the UK support the Movement for Good awards in total, with over 7,000 charitable causes up and down the country receiving votes. The 500 winning charities were picked at random from those nominated.
This year 500 more charities will each receive £1,000 during the first phase of the campaign,...
A leading Devon law firm has produced a series of guides to help businesses during coronavirus. Stephens Scown LLP’s covid-19 guides cover how businesses can survive and thrive, key legal issues businesses should not forget about and considerations before hibernating a business.
“Although we are starting to understand how the UK may come out of lockdown, there is a very long way to go and lots of challenges ahead for Cornish businesses. There is so much information out there for businesses, but it can be quite overwhelming to access what is relevant,” says Richard Baker, Stephens...
Volunteers from the University of Exeter have teamed up with the local community to build thousands of disposable face shields, to help protect frontline NHS workers during the COVID-19 epidemic.
The team from the College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences (EMPS) have assembled around 2,000 face shields for the local healthcare community, including the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital.
The volunteers, who are PhD students, researchers and professional services staff, collaborated with a consortium of local businesses to make the face shields in a specially...
Exeter cartoonist Ross Hendrick has recently completed his latest work, a comic book which humorously yet thoughtfully documents the struggles with social anxiety.
Ross, who has previously worked for such publications as The Beano, Viz and the Express & Echo, is the creator of a popular webcomic called Socially Awkward Misfit. The protagonist is a character called Sam (an acronym of Socially Awkward Misfit) who is loosely based on Ross's own life.
The webcomic deals with issues relating to anxiety, depression and introversion, and has become popular with people from all...
Football fans can relive the 30th anniversary of Exeter City’s historic 1990 league title win as part of a new online exhibition.
St James Park may be closed but people can still celebrate sporting success virtually thanks to the exhibition, hosted on the website Grecian Archive, a partnership between the University of Exeter, the club and supporters’ trust.
As part of the National Lottery heritage funded project, the ECFC museum team - who work in collaboration with colleagues from the University’s College of Humanities and Digital Humanities Lab – have put materials...
Stagecoach bus workers right across the country have joined together to create a special video to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day. Bus drivers, engineers, managers, cleaners and many other employees feature in the tribute video covering Forces’ Sweetheart Dame Vera Lynn’s wartime anthem “We’ll meet again”.
Staff from across 16 Stagecoach depots came together to sing a line of the famous song to recognise and pay tribute to all those who fought so hard on the front line during WWII. The depots involved were:
Despite such uncertain times having a major impact on the high street, an Exeter kitchen retailer is harnessing the latest technology to overcome the challenges posed by a global pandemic.
The Kutchenhaus store is providing virtual appointments and using its new online 3D planning and design tool to create kitchens remotely for local customers until COVID-19 government restrictions are lifted.
Nigel & Samantha Dilley co-owners of the store, are introducing new ways for its customers to view, design and order its contemporary ranges produced by parent company, Nobilia...
Exeter DJs can play their part in dance music history this weekend by playing a set for the world’s largest ever simultaneous live stream DJ event in aid of the Last Night A DJ Saved My Life (LNADJ) COVID-19 Emergency Appeal.
Local DJs can broadcast their ‘Set For Love’ - the brainchild of the LNADJ charity - to help raise money for those suffering from the impact of coronavirus in Africa and other developing countries.
The 72-hour extravaganza will draw together an expected collective of thousands of DJs across the globe and is being backed by music industry...
More than 1,800 trees were planted across Devon during March through two initiatives offered by Devon County Council. The County Council, in association with the UK’s leading woodland conservation charity The Woodland Trust , offered a limited number of packs of sapling trees via the Devon Ash Dieback Resilience Forum website . Landowners from 40 sites across the county took up the offer to plant a mix of native broadleaved trees through the scheme to create new tree clumps and copses. The free packs provided a mix of oak, rowan and birch trees as well as guards and canes to protect them...
Spending time in the garden is linked to similar benefits for health and wellbeing as living in wealthy areas, according to a new large-scale study.
Research conducted by the University of Exeter and the Royal Horticultural Society charity, published in Elsevier’s Landscape and Urban Planning , analysed data from nearly 8,000 people collected by Natural England between 2009 and 2016. The research, conducted with funding from Innovate UK and NIHR, found that people who spend time in the garden are significantly more likely to report general good health, higher psychological...
