From Monday 10 August BBC Radio in your area is calling on listeners to nominate their Make a Difference Superstars to celebrate people who have been going above and beyond during the Covid-19 pandemic. Some of the stories will feature on air in a special programme on Friday 11th September and a judging panel will select two Make A Difference Superstars from each of the nine BBC local radio...
Devon’s schoolchildren have shown how much they care about the countryside by entering CPRE Devon’s 2020 Art and Writing competitions in their droves. This year the Devon branch of the countryside charity CPRE received more entries than ever before and from all corners of the county.
In both competitions, held throughout the months of lockdown, primary schoolchildren demonstrated how...
The NSPCC’s crucial prevention work in the city tackling child sexual abuse is set to benefit from a grant of almost £400,000.
The children’s charity’s Together for Childhood programme has been awarded £389,284 from the National Lottery Community Fund, providing three years of funding to support with its community activity.
On Wednesday, SAVE food hub volunteers saved the 4,000th food item from going to waste since the community group began working in March. The date also marked marked the first occasion of the partnership with Seaton Town Council and local Community Interest Company Re:store as SAVE started working from the Council’s Marshlands building
They collect and share edible, in date food with...
Traditional seaside entertainment enjoyed by families a century ago is set to return to Britain’s beaches as pierrot performers get ready to perform again following the lifting of the ban on outdoor theatre.
The socially-distant performances for small groups, sitting at an appropriate distance, will include Punch and Judy, a flea circus, music, comedy, circus skills and games such as...
Plymouth based Project Plan B Director Tim Cross has long been a spokesperson on sustainable textiles solutions for the workwear and PPE markets – but C19 has amplified that passion. He is urging designers and product developers to think about products’ end of working life – with the motto ‘protect others, protect the planet.’
“Nearly 90% of UK workwear already ends up in landfill or...
TV presenter and Alzheimer’s Society supporter Ruth Langsford is urging people across the South West to step out in support of the charity.
The UK’s leading dementia charity is calling on 3,112 people across the region – a combined number that attended last year’s Memory Walks in Bristol, Cheltenham, Plymouth and Bournemouth – to take part in a very different version of its most...
Thelma Hulbert Gallery (THG) has selected the 60 local artists, creatives and organisations to complete the final stage of the rejuvenation of a section of the Exmouth seafront, known as the Abode of Love .
Earlier in the month the Exmouth community, including artists and creatives, were asked in a local call out to share how they wanted to shape Exmouth’s creative journey.
A THIRD of kids in the South West have said that Harry Potter still takes the wand as most beloved character from a book – despite him being introduced to the world all the way back in 1997.
Other characters who topped the list include The Gruffalo and Roald Dahl’s Charlie Bucket – which makes sense considering Roald Dahl also takes one of the top spots as children’s most loved...
