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Plymouth Boat Club expands after successful first year

A Plymouth business, which has combined boating with the shared economy concept, has expanded after positive results from their first year.

Yacht Haven Quay, a Plymstock boatyard which is home to the UK’s largest ‘indoor marina’, launched the Plymouth Boat Club in April 2018 offering members a low cost way to get access to a brand new and professionally maintained motorboat.

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Transforming Marsh Mills Roundabout into the Mayflower Forest

The Mayflower Forest has taken another step towards reality with the release of the stunning final designs.

Over 1000 new trees for Marsh Mills roundabout are in the plans which aims to create a world-class first impression of the city for visitors and residents alike for years to come.

The Mayflower Forest is a key part of The Road to Mayflower project, a volunteer led...

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Theatre Royal Plymouth taking action on climate change

Theatre Royal Plymouth are committed to promoting environmental sustainability and reducing its carbon footprint. Over the last year TRP have introduced a number of initiatives to take action on climate change.

Instead of sending redundant theatre sets and props to landfill, TRP is looking at ways to recycle them into new projects. Recently, 30 sets of small stairs that were made in...

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Plymouth children sea changes thanks to National Lottery

Groundbreaking pilot mental health project gets backing for another year.

A TRAILBLAZING mental health project to help excluded youngsters get back into full time main-stream education spearheaded by Britain’s Ocean City social enterprise Beach Schools South West is being backed by the National Lottery.

Beach Schools South West’s revolutionary Sea-ing Changes project was...

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Girlguiding Plymouth take on the Astor 100 Challenge

Girlguiding from across the whole of Plymouth and the Lord Mayor, are coming together to take on the Astor 100 Challenge in Central Park on 5th May.

Girls and women from across the 4 divisions, Plympton, Plymouth East, Plymouth West and Plym will each be sponsored to take on 100 repetitions of an activity.

The women and girls, aged from 5 to 80, get to choose any activity they...

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The Box acquires work by four contemporary artists as part of national fig-futures project

Eight works by four contemporary artists have been acquired for The Box for its permanent collections thanks to a national project that’s been testing a unique approach to curating and collecting.

Over the past 12 months fig-futures has been touring the UK, taking 18 artists to four different locations and giving them the opportunity to exhibit their work a week at a time.

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Racegoer feedback leads winter developments at Newton Abbot ahead of season opener

The finishing touches to Newton Abbot Racecourse’s extensive winter re-development programme are being made ahead of the start of the new season at Newton Abbot on Easter Saturday 20 April.

Listening closely to feedback from racegoers over recent years has led the focus of the annual re-development programme.

One of the biggest areas to be developed is the Course Enclosure...

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Children’s Hospice South West needs volunteers

Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW), which runs Little Harbour children’s hospice in St Austell, has been celebrating the work of its dedicated community volunteers while searching for more to join.

A few weeks ago the hospice ran its annual Friends Group Conference. This event gave various members of Little Harbour’s fundraising team and care team the opportunity to thank community...

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Nurse Intervention Pilot showing signs of improving cardiac care

A nurse-led improvement project in Derriford Hospital’s Emergency Department is changing the way patients with cardiac conditions experience urgent care.

The three-month pilot, devised by the Heart Failure Nursing Team, is examining the impact that earlier intervention from a specialist nurse could have on the outcomes of patients attending the Emergency Department with either heart...

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Pentillie Revs Up for Defender Day

There's a host of exciting and interesting activities planned for Defender Day at Pentillie Castle this year.

New for 2019 is a unique Toylander Course, which will feature built to scale mini versions of Defenders, battling it out across a shrunken course.

There will also be talks from Land Rover adventurers, including Gary Parkinson and Julia Hobday, and Mike Andrews. Mike was...

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