The Isca Ensemble will be celebrating its Tenth Anniversary in 2013. The Ensemble started as a small string group specialising in performances of Rennaisance and early Romantic repertoire. It rapidly grew into a full Chamber Orchestra with added woodwind and brass with a corresponding expansion of repertoire.
We are thrilled that Richard Jenkinson (lead cellist with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and member of the Dante String Quartet) has accepted our invitation to join us for this very special event. He has been a great friend and supporter of the Ensemble for many...
Exeter Cathedral will host its second Saying Goodbye service this month, to help parents who have lost babies in pregnancy through miscarriage, still birth or other trauma, and in infancy.
The first such service was held last year in Exeter, and since then 22 services will have been held in other towns and cities.
Andy Clark-Coates established the services with his wife Zoe after the couple lost five children themselves. Andy said: "We have had amazing attendances at services with people who have lost babies last week and last month, sitting next to peoplewho lost 60 years...
Music at St Michael's: Evening Recital Series - Betts
A new music recital series starting this autumn at St Michael’s Church, Mount Dinham, Exeter.
All recitals are FREE OF CHARGE, and they include a wide variety of types and styles of music performed by professional/semi-professional musicians, young performers, local musicians and others.
Recital Programme:
Wednesday December 11: Exeter Chorale (music by Exeter composers)
Wednesday January 15: Emma Graham and Liz Grier: Harpe Noire (music for two harps)
Latest technology brings Newton Abbot church into 21st Century and maintains its character.
When St Paul’s Church in Newton Abbott was looking for a solar PV solution to reduce its carbon emissions it wasn’t a simple challenge, as its Grade I listed status meant that any alterations had to fully maintain the character of the 19th century church.
The modern look of standard solar PV panels had already been turned down by planners, so when the church’s architects (LSN Architects) suggested solar slates, they approached Exeter-based SunGift Energy who designed a 4 kWp system...
David Pett who took on a pioneering ecumenical role to support rural churches in West Devon is off to pastures new.
The ecumenical rural development officer role, which was funded by the Methodist Connexion and the Exeter Diocese, has now come to an end after three years. David has found a new job as regional officer for Dairy Co covering the whole of the South West working with cattle and sheep farmers.
David said: “The last few years have simply flown by. I have greatly enjoyed meeting so many people who are very keen to work alongside their communities and make a...
The St David's Church annual Summer Fete will be held on Saturday 6 July from 12 - 2.30pm, in the churchyard just off Hele Rd, Exeter.
Come and hear The City of Exeter Railway Band play a selection of popular tunes.
Join in the fun, we have lots of stalls to browse and buy from, games to play, a Grand Draw, refreshments, delicious lunches, bunting and a bouncy castle. Free entry - all welcome!
The fete will go ahead rain or shine, moving inside the church in the event of bad weather.
For more information: www.stdavidschurchexeter.org.uk
It is sad to note that as we may enjoy the sights and sounds of Spring around us, our natural history is in serious trouble. That is the conclusion of the recent State of Nature report published by a coalition of leading British conservation and research organisations.
Scientists working side-by-side from 25 wildlife organisations have compiled a stock take of our native species – the first of its kind in the UK. The report reveals that 60% of the species studied have declined over recent decades. More than one in ten of all the species assessed are under threat of disappearing...
A project to help unite a mission community has raised nearly £3,000 for the diocese Sand Dam Lent Appeal. This now takes the total to £8,874.
“I’m absolutely thrilled!” said the Revd Chas Deacon, Diocesan Companion Links Mission Officer. “This will help us to make a good start towards assisting water security in the Thika Diocese in Kenya. There’s a lot to be done!”
The Five Alive Mission Community was the first mission community to be created in the Exeter and undertook the fundraising project to promote unity. Simultaneously they also followed a Lent course called, ‘...
The Bishop of Exeter is to ask all church communities to pray for farmers and farming communities this Sunday 5 May.
He has been supported by the United Reformed Church. South West leader Revd David Grosch-Miller is issuing a similar call to prayer this week.
Farmers are facing a crisis now that is as every bit as bad as the foot and mouth epidemic in 2001, said Bishop Michael.
Bishop Michael arrived as bishop of the Diocese of Exeter shortly before the foot and mouth crisis, a time that left a deep mark on his ministry, he has said.
The Department of Education has formally approved the orders to allow the first schools to join the Diocese of Exeter’s new Multi Academy Trust.
The Trust, named St Christopher’s, has been set up by the diocese to enable it to support schools which are becoming academies.
The Diocese of Exeter has 130 church schools across Devon, which educate around 22,000 children aged 4-18. The vast majority of church schools in the diocese (85 per cent) are rated by Ofsted as good or outstanding.
The Trust’s mission statement says: “The St Christopher’s Multi Academy Trust will...
