“Please don’t visit friends and family in our hospitals if you have Covid or other illnesses” – that’s the message from Devon’s NHS, as the number of people in hospital with Covid-19 remains high.
Many of the restrictions brought in to reduce the spread of Covid-19 in the community have come to an end, but people are still required to wear a mask in health settings and are being asked to wash and sanitise their hands.
And anyone with symptoms of Covid-19 or other illnesses that can spread easily, such as flu or norovirus, is urged not to visit patients in hospital....
Devonshire Freemasons together with The United Grand Lodge of England (UGLE) has awarded more than £4.7m through four Covid-19 relief programmes, focusing on community support, food support, domestic abuse, homelessness and mental health.
Covid-related donations from Devonshire Freemasons began in 2020 and since then they have contributed for a total of £4.7m to help those in need. The donations are being used to help communities in various critical areas, including foodbanks, support for unpaid carers, personal protective equipment (PPE), schools, mental health,homelessness,...
The COVID-19 pandemic has been difficult for everyone, and particularly those working to protect Devon’s most vulnerable residents.
Now, as the second anniversary of the first lockdown approaches, the Social Care Day of Remembrance and Reflection, this Thursday 17 March, gives us the opportunity to honour the vital work the social care sector has done to keep people safe and well, and to remember the people working in social care who we have sadly lost during pandemic.
People in Devon are encouraged to take part in the day by displaying the county’s flower, the primrose...
On a recent visit to The Mint Methodist Church in Fore Street, Exeter, Andy Vodden Assistant Head of the Devonshire Freemasons met Mark Richardson the Foodbank Manager to present him with a certificate denoting the £4000 grand made to them from the Devonshire Masonic Benevolent Fund together with the Masonic Charitable Foundation (MCF).
When discussing the work undertaken by the foodbank Mark told Andy that most of their donations of food and cash came from the public and supermarket collections, they serve between 150 and 200 families every week for which they need around two...
UK Theatre have announced that it is continuing its nationwide Love Your Local Theatre campaign, which offers National Lottery player’s 2-for-1 theatre tickets, until the end of April.
Exeter Northcott Theatre is now offering National Lottery players 2-for-1 tickets to April performances of The Rise and Fall of Little Voice , Jeremiah and Steve Knightley: Songs from the West . This is in addition to the theatre offering this promotion for March shows 40 Years of Phoenix Dance , Elizabeth I: Virgin on the Ridiculous and Footprints .
Up to 1,435 new Cranbrook homes, a second neighbourhood centre and a primary school could be built under freshly proposed plans, submitted to the council this week.
An outline planning application, put forward by Persimmon Homes, also includes 10 serviced pitches for gypsies and travellers, the creation of public open space, allotments and land for a cemetery along with a range of other infrastructure to support the proposed development.
East Devon District Council (EDDC) has now launched a consultation on the plans which form an important part of the planned expansion...
The Farms, Estates and Rural Land team at national law firm, Foot Anstey LLP, has launched a podcast series called 'Experts in the Field' focused on tackling hot topics, such as succession planning and environmental, farming and landowner issues.
The 'Experts in the Field' series will feature experienced advisors from across the law firm, as well as an array of experts on specialist matters, including Alex Stevens from the National Farmers' Union, Clive Beer from Savills, and Hannah Mazrae from Saffery Champness.
The team at Foot Anstey has recorded a variety of sessions on...
With England rugby players still operating with COVID restrictions during the Guinness Six Nations, O2’s 5G mobile network was able to project Ellis Genge, Jack Nowell and Henry Slade as 4k holograms to surprise a group of schoolchildren with a ‘world first’ virtual rugby PE lesson.
Since the outbreak of the pandemic in 2020, England Rugby players have had to operate under COVID restrictions, meaning that they have been unable to meet fans and the British public in person.
So ahead of England’s crunch game with Ireland at Twickenham on Saturday 12 March, O2 teamed up...
The popular game-based learning programme SplashLearn has announced the second UK edition of its massively popular SpringBoard Maths Challenge. The maths competition is a calendar marked event and is highly anticipated by teachers across the US and Canada. TheSpringBoard Maths Challenge 2022 is open to all classes from Year 1 through Year 6 in the UK and will run from March 1 - May 8, 2022.
Participation in the challenge, which is free , is designed to give teachers and schools the opportunity to engage their primary school students through fun maths challenges aligned to the...
Foot Anstey has advised Integrity360, an August Equity portfolio company, on its acquisition of Caretower, as part of its pan-European expansion plan. The transaction involved the acquisition of Caretower's UK and Bulgarian businesses.
Emma Clayton, Associate, and Matt Stoate, Head of Corporate and Private Equity at Foot Anstey led the multi-disciplinary team from Foot Anstey that advised on the acquisition.
Integrity360, the cybersecurity specialist, is backed by private equity house August Equity, and has offices in Dublin, London and New York. Its team of security...
