A seasonal celebration of the hand-made, showcasing over 50 of the UK’s best contemporary designer-makers working in a variety of craft media. With a range of prices to suit everyone, MAKE 2015 is an excellent opportunity to buy an individual piece of craft this Christmas. In addition to the exhibition our shop has everything you need to decorate your home and choose the perfect gift as well as seasonal cards, wrapping and decorations. Also join BBC Get Creative's 'Hey Clay' campaign, with free porcelain modelling on 5 December.
Smiggle, Australia’s most colourful stationery brand is set to open its doors in Princesshay on 30 October 2015.
The new store will be located at the Bampfylde Lane entrance to Princesshay off the High Street offering bright and bold stationery, bags, lunchboxes, accessories, gadgets and more.
Smiggle prides itself on delivering original and fun products for children, from pencils and pens, to backpacks, lunchboxes and drink bottles, and ‘must-have’ gadgets and gizmos.
Wayne Pearce, Princesshay Centre Director said: “Smiggle is a fun new brand offering something...
The biggest full price Fat Face store in the UK will open its doors in Princesshay, Exeter on Saturday 17 October after extensive refurbishment and expansion programme.
Wayne Pearce, Princesshay Centre Director, says: “The new Fat Face in Princesshay will be the biggest full price store in the UK and we are looking forward to seeing the refurbishment and its new and improved layout. Fat Face has been an integral part of Princesshay since its opening in 2007 and we are proud of their success and pleased to see them expand.”
The FORCE Cancer Charity shop in Heavitree will partially re-open on Friday October 2.
The award-winning shop in Fore Street has been closed since August 21 for essential refurbishment work.
Contractors have been carrying out renovations including new roofing, some structural work, total rewiring and redecoration.
They have completed work on the furniture and book section of the shop, which will be re-carpeted early next week and re-stocked with a variety of items in time to welcome customers again on Friday.
Waterstones is proud to host Peggy Harris who will be talking about and signing copies of Life on A Dartmoor Scrapyard - the Later Years. The event is on Thursday 9th July with doors opening at 6.30 for a prompt 7pm start.
Tickets (limited availability) are priced at £2 and can be purchased in the shop.
Local charity Hospiscare has officially received the £1,000 left in a bag outside one of its city shops.
Amy Broadway, deputy manager of Hospiscare’s flagship Fore Street shop handed the cash over today to Hospiscare nurses at the Dryden Road hospice.
Police released the cash after nobody came forward to claim it.
Six weeks ago £1,020 was left in a large bag, containing a purple quilt, just by the front door a few minutes before staff arrived to open up in the morning.
Hospiscare staff nurse Megan Woodman, who received the cash, said: “This is wonderful news...
The British Red Cross is today (Thursday 30 April) launching ‘Shop Drop for Nepal’ to give people another way to donate to its Nepal Earthquake Appeal.
The Red Cross is appealing to people to clear out their wardrobes and cupboards and donate their unwanted clothes and goods to their local Red Cross shop.
Funds raised from the sale of the items will aid the organisation’s life-saving work in Nepal. The Red Cross appeal has now topped £3 million but much more is needed.
People wishing to help can drop off their goods at their nearest Red Cross shop, and explain they...
Exeter-based independent retailer Queenstreet Carpets and Furnishings, based in Alphington, announces it has signed the lease on a second store in Topsham which is to open on the 1st May.
The expanding family-owned business was founded by the late Malcolm Dixie and his wife Nikki in 1968 and was originally based in Queen Street, Exeter. Today the independent company is run by brothers, Gary & Mark Dixie who signed the new lease for a second shop located on The Strand in Topsham. The ‘Old Gaol’, a listed building located opposite Topsham’s quay area, was formerly known as ‘...
Hospiscare has received another mystery donation – this time £1,020 was left outside its flagship store in Exeter’s Fore Street.
The money was left in a large bag, containing a purple quilt, just by the front door a few minutes before staff arrived to open up in the morning.
Last Christmas Hospiscare, Exeter’s local end of life charity, celebrated receiving £3,450 after cash was left in two carrier bags outside its Cowick Street shop and just last month Hospiscare received another mystery donation of £140 in notes, this time through the post, to the same store.
East Devon District Council’s Leader has welcomed the opening of a new pharmacy for residents of Cranbrook.
The new facility is located within the Younghayes Centre, the community building that was completed soon after the first cluster of homes was built at Cranbrook, and is the latest in a series of firsts for the new town, which is rapidly taking shape.
Councillor Paul Diviani said: “I’m delighted that the long-awaited pharmacy is now open for business. It will be much more convenient for Cranbrook residents to get their prescriptions from a local pharmacy, as well as...
