Exeter Eagles BMX Club welcomes a new defibrillator thanks to a generous donation from award-winning housing developer, Burrington Estates New Homes.
The volunteer-run BMX club based in Marsh Barton, Exeter holds race events throughout the year with up to 200 riders competing on race days. The club is a hub for the local community, welcoming over 9000 visitors a year.
The donation from Burrington Estates means the club can offer further assistance and peace of mind to the riders and spectators at the club. Heart health is extremely important to the Exeter Eagles with club...
One of the region’s transport experts has warned that a ‘cultural shift’ in our attitude towards on-road transport is needed if Devon is to become a net-zero county.
Nik Bowyer is a member of Devon’s Net-Zero Taskforce and Chair of the South West region of the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation.
The institute represents those who plan, design, build and manage transport and transport infrastructure in Devon and across the UK.
Nik says one of the main challenges of decarbonising Devon is the emphasis that planners and society as a whole have placed...
‘Naked’ otter sculptures were unveiled at a special event today to mark the next exciting steps of Dartmoor National Park’s Moor Otters arts trail 2020. The event held at Bovey Castle, and hosted by Dartmoor National Park, gave artists the opportunity to collect their sculptures so they can start transforming them into stunning individual works of art. At the same time, businesses and supporters were able to learn more about how the funds from Moor Otters sponsorship and sales will go towards important conservation projects so people connect with Dartmoor and care for it in the future....
EXPERTS at a south Devon home care company are offering elderly and vulnerable people in the county free advice on keeping warm in the coming winter months (2019/2020).
Guardian Homecare says it is extremely important for those with reduced mobility or who are aged 65 and above to keep warm and to have a well-heated home this season.
Catherine Porter, who manages Guardian Homecare’s teams working in the Exeter area, says: “We’re offering our free advice as expert carers to ensure that Devonians keep warm this winter. For starters, the minimum a home should be heated to is...
Young people spending Christmas in an Exeter hospital will be given special presents to open on Christmas morning thanks to a nationwide campaign organised by The Laura Crane Youth Cancer Trust.
Cancer does not take time off over Christmas and so the charity’s Christmas appeal ‘Fuel the Sleigh’ aims to spread a little cheer to young people forced to spend the holidays in hospital away from their family and loved ones.
All gifts are wrapped by volunteers and then delivered to around 500 young people being treated at the 43 hospital units nationwide. Last year a staggering 1,...
GREEN teenage champions are targeting Exeter’s parks, school streets and supermarket parking to pick-up thousands of harmful cigarette butts.
Environmental-aware dynamic duo Daisy Norris and Jack Eynon will be out and about across the city over the next few weeks to collect the discards and help clean our spaces. Their first pick-up will be in Heavitree (where Jack lives) on the morning of 7th December, with a second planned for 27th December, and more in the new year.
The community-conscious pair are looking for sponsors to support them, with all funds going to a once-in-a...
A campaign to encourage more people in Exeter to vote in next week’s General Election has paid off with nearly 8,000 extra voters signing up.
Exeter City Council said that reminders to encourage people to register to vote had prompted a flood of registrations in the lead up to last week’s deadline.
John Street, the City Council’s Electoral Registration & Returning Officer, said: “We have added 7,938 electors to the Exeter Constituency in the last few weeks and another 410 to the part of the City which is within the East Devon constituency.
A dedicated team of Christmas volunteers have spent over 3,000 hours creating a range festive displays and decorations bringing to life this year’s theme, which has taken inspiration from the well-known poem by Clement Clarke Moore, ‘Twas the night before Christmas.’
It’s all thanks to a dedicated team of volunteers at the National Trust’s Killerton, near Exeter, who start planning the theme, design and decorations at the start of each year.
Throughout 2019 the team have been busy creating festive decorations including stockings to hang by the fire in the Drawing Room and...
At a recent meeting on the grounds of Starcross Bowling Club, Brian Adams representing both the Masonic Lodge of Union who meet at Starcross and the Salem Masonic Lodge meeting in Dawlish presented the club president Eileen Martin and the club captain Simon Whittle with two cheques totalling £750 to enable the club to purchase a defibrillator.
A Defibrillator is a lifesaving device which will restart the heart when a sudden cardiac arrest strikes and restore the normal rhythms of the heart.
Freemasons try their best to be at the heart of their community by helping local...
Charities that enhance and often saves the lives of Devon people have received £50,000 to continue their amazing work.
The supermarket chain is marking its Centenary year with two special Bags of Help funding rounds, with a huge £100,000 funding pot in Devon.
The first of these special rounds concentrated on groups delivering health and wellbeing benefits. In first place, Devon Air Ambulance Trust has been awarded £25,000. In second place, HeadsUP Mental Health Awareness Limited has been awarded £15,000. In third place, Pete's Dragons has been awarded £10,000.
