The volunteer committee which runs the outdoor swimming pool in Topsham was delighted to hear today that the pool will be receiving a grant of £25,000 from the Coastal Recycling Community Fund.
The grant will go a long way towards funding a new roof and solar heating for the community pool, which launched its campaign to raise £100,000 for much needed renovations at the beginning of this season.
Andrea Veale of Topsham Pool said: " We’re delighted and extremely grateful to the team at Coastal Recycling. Their grant will enable us to install renewable energy in the form of...
Coastal Recycling has awarded seven community grants, totalling £55,650, to organisations across Devon who aim to enhance community spaces, improve biodiversity, cultural facilities and places for outdoor recreation.
The grant funding, administered by national charity GrantScape, will support a variety of projects, including improving access at Exeter’s brain charity Headway, a brand new clubhouse facility for Bideford BMX and renewable energy heating for Topsham Community Pool.
Grants are being made to the following organisations:
Staff from the East Devon Homes Community Development service at East Devon District Council did an outstanding job organising the Littleham Community Festival, which took place on Saturday 14 May.
This action packed event proved a hit with local residents, with around 240 people of all ages turning out to take part in a wide range of fun activities. Funtasia Entertainment provided an outdoor skittle alley and a fun-fair style stall with plenty of prizes. Professional magician and illusionist Romeo Diamond mesmerised his audience with non-stop entertainment, while the Devon Youth...
Bluebird Care , an Exeter and East Devon based home care provider have awarded a grant of £500 to the Exmouth & District Community Transport Group (EDCTG) to support them in providing transport to the Exmouth Dementia Carers Support Group .
Bluebird Care has been working hard to support community groups across Exeter as well as providing a daily care service to local residents living in their own homes.
The award winning home care provider awarded the Community Grant to the EDCTG after receiving numerous applications for their £500 Grant from voluntary organisations...
SUNDAY 12th JUNE, we are mixing up our Yoga brunch a little!
This month the Yoga Brunch will be held at the stunning Court Barn at Highfield Farm in Topsham!
We will start the morning with a dynamic Yoga session, moving with ease, creating space in our bodies, allowing the body to move softly with no tension, no stress, no competition.
We will follow our session with a delicious homemade brunch. Brunch will be gluten, dairy, wheat & refined sugar free. Think homemade granola, with coconut yogurt or almond milk and organic berries, avocado on rye bread, nut...
The Yoga Brunch is returning to Exeter! After such wonderful feedback from our first Yoga Brunch in Exeter I just had to run it again!
SATURDAY 21st May starting at 10:15AM we are going to explore and move the body through a super fun dynamic flow which will challenge yet ease your body into movement.
Open to guys and girls, Yogis, non-Yogis, never stretched before to stretch every day people, come and start your weekend off with movement, smiles and meeting new awesome people!
Our dynamic flow session lasting just over an hour will be held in the Exeter Community...
Celebrate with a free cuppa and a cake at The Beacon, Exeter’s dynamic community centre as we mark our first birthday and a hat trick of successes tomorrow. (Fri May 6)
The volunteer team which runs the centre in Beacon Lane has three reasons to be happy.
• The first successful transition in Exeter of a former county council youth centre, the Knight Club, into a vibrant community centre for Beacon Heath.
• The start tomorrow of its first community weekly Friday drop-in, during May there is a free cuppa and cake on offer.
A new renewable energy league table reveals which counties have the most solar panels installed across England and Wales. The South West comes out top, with Cornwall taking first place and Devon hot on its heels. The renewables industry is an important source of jobs, with more than 10,000 in the South West, including 2,800 in the solar sector. There are 120,000 people employed in the industry across England and Wales. The league table is published just after Plymouth’s largest solar array went online. Constructed on a former landfill site in Ernesettle, energy generated from the 4.1MW...
Vanessa Cobb from Vanessa Cobb Professional Development talks about creating shared value (CSV) within your business or organisation.
She discusses how the divide between business and community has been bridged and how CSV is a strategy that can result in new market development, higher staff engagement and unlocking natural leadership potential within the team.
Vanessa explains how shared value is 'created now by philanthropy or good PR but when a business makes a connection between it's commercial goals and the needs of the communities in which it operates'.
Schools in Crediton have joined together in a major arts project and will display their creations in a special ‘pop-up’ exhibition in the town after Easter.
Pupils from Landscore Primary School have been working on a project using mosaics as well as teaming up with students from Queen Elizabeth’s Community College’s art and English department to make prints.
Children from Haywards Primary School have been using ceramics in their project.
All their creations will go on show with other work in textiles and photography by older people in the town at an exhibition...
