Ronin, a community programme participant from the award-winning Premiership Rugby HITZ education and employment programme, was recently awarded the HITZ Young Achiever Award 2024 at the annual HITZ awards ceremony.
Honoured for overcoming a range of challenges and working the hardest to progress on his journey in education, training and developing life skills to increase his chances of employment, Ronin will now be celebrated during Community Weekend Round 7 of Gallagher Premiership Rugby (29th Nov - 1st Dec).
For 18 year old Ronin, from Broadclyst, Exeter, it has been a...
Cranbrook Education Campus, (CEC) part of the Ted Wragg Trust , has welcomed a new therapy dog this term.
Her in-school training commenced with visits during the summer holidays to familiarise herself with the environment followed by some shorter sessions meeting staff and finally in the final week of the last half-term, 'Meet Aurora' sessions with each individual class.
Aurora, who is staff member Mrs Edingham's 4-year-old cockapoo, has officially started her role as a therapy dog in the primary phase of CEC. Following her basic training, Aurora is currently enrolled in...
Our Streets Now is an organisation dedicated to ending public sexual harassment (PSH). After five years of campaigning, Our Streets Now has achieved legislative change through the Protection from Sex-Based Harassment in Public Act 2023, as well as developing culture change in schools, higher education, sports and on the high street.
Our Streets Now will be attending Exeter Reclaim The Night on 5th of December between 4.30 pm and 6.15 pm as part of our wider work during the 16 days of activism against gender-based violence. We would like to invite a member of your team to join one...
Wynstream Primary School in Exeter, part of Education South West , has hosted a Gabrieli Roar workshop this month for three other schools, ahead of their performance at Exeter Cathedral on the 9th of December.
Gabrieli is a choir and period instrument orchestra founded and led by Artistic Director Paul McCreesh. They perform and record choral, vocal and instrumental repertoire from the renaissance to the present day and have cultivated an international reputation for excellence, innovation and ambition. They offer first-class performance opportunities to young people through...
Devon & Cornwall Police has joined forces with staff at Devon Highways to put their best foot forward and send festive shoeboxes full of useful items to places where they will make a real difference.
Link to Hope is a registered charity, who have been sending shoeboxes at Christmas time since 1992. Boxes filled with goodies and donated to the appeal will go to the poorest people in Ukraine, Moldova, Bulgaria and Romania.
Items collected include toiletries, gloves, scarves, hats, travel size games (for example playing cards), colouring pens and writing pads,...
National Tree Week is being celebrated in Devon this week (until Sunday 1 Dec) with an announcement that Emergency Tree Funding granted by the Woodland Trust has been extended to help Devon County Council's Free Tree Scheme this winter. Since the County Council first piloted its Free Tree Scheme in 2019, it has funded the planting of more than 50,000 trees across the county as part of ongoing efforts to meet its carbon net zero targets by 2030 and to replace trees lost to Ash Dieback. The Emergency Tree Fund (ETF) has played a vital role in contributing to that figure over the past three...
Exeter-based strategic marketing firm Optix Solutions has unveiled its latest innovation: a free marketing assessment tool designed to help businesses evaluate their current marketing efforts and uncover opportunities to enhance their strategy, generate leads, and boost sales.
Developed by Growth Director Ali Newton-Temperley and Director of Strategy Thomas Haynes, the tool combines their extensive expertise to deliver actionable insights for businesses of all sizes.
Newton-Temperley explained: "With increasing pressure on businesses to maximize their marketing budgets, the...
Residents at Collegiate UK’s Exeter student accommodations this year donated over 4,000 bags of items to The British Heart Foundation (BHF), raising an impressive £85,239 for the charity this year alone.
The resident donations made through October 2023 to September 2024, totalling over 32,000 kilograms, were collected as part of BHF's "Pack for Good" campaign, demonstrating the continued commitment of Collegiate UK to supporting this vital cause. The campaign is designed to encourage students to donate good quality, unwanted items such as second-hand clothes, utensils, electronic...
As part of the development of the cycle route, the road will be completely resurfaced between Quarry Lane and Ludwell Lane, with high friction surfacing also applied in specific areas. Rifford Road will be closed during the resurfacing which will be delivered in three phases. The first section will resurface from the junction with Quarry Lane to the junction with Lethbridge Road between Monday 2 December and Friday 13 December. Exact dates for the remaining sections are yet to be decided, but it is expected that work from Lethbridge Road to Woodwater Lane will be carried out in January or...
Foresight Group (“Foresight”), a leading FTSE 250 listed private equity and infrastructure investment manager, has announced the launch of an evergreen fund dedicated to investing into growing companies, across all sectors and transaction types, throughout South West England (“the Fund”).
Cornerstoned by Devon Pension Fund, the Fund will target smaller equity investments in established, promising companies with growth potential across the South West of England, including Bristol, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Oxfordshire, Somerset and Wiltshire.
