Community News & Updates
April 23rd is 'Take Our Daughter's or Son's To Work Day' Could you teach your child/children valuable life lessons and have them join you in your North Devon workplace for a day?
- 13th April 2015
National Gardening Week 2015 aims to encourage everyone to get involved in gardening as an on going hobby - or for the first time! Running from 13th - 19th April 2015 - get your hands dirty and get stuck in!
Are you over 50? Do you live alone? Do you have a disability? Do you have limited Mobility? If you do then you may qualify for a FREE home fire safety check and a FREE smoke alarm test.
It's been eight years since National Butchers Week was founded, Meat Trades Journal wants to promote the skills of butchers throughout the UK. How have they done this? By making the week exciting and setting up various activities that get people more involved with their butchers.
As part of its 'Building Better Communities' project, Jewson is offering communities across the country the chance to win a share of a £100,000 prize which can be spent on anything from a new roof for their village hall, to a much needed coat of paint for a long-forgotten public space. Does your North Devon community need a boost?
- 11th March 2015
A scout group in North Devon is making an urgent appeal for help to raise funds for their new scout HQ. The 5th North Devon Scout Group, based in Bishop’s Tawton, needs to raise £30,000 to build its new HQ on the groups existing site at the base of Codden Hill.
- 9th March 2015
RED NOSE DAY 2015 is back on Friday 13th March! Make your face funny for money! If you have got a face, get loads of ways to make it funny and raise loads of life-changing money.
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is providing funding to help organisations in the UK host an Armed Forces Day event this summer. National Armed Forces Day which this year falls on Saturday 27th June 2015.
World Thinking Day is a day of friendship, advocacy and fundraising for 10 million Girl Guides and Girl Scouts around the world.
- 12th February 2015
Would you like to attend The Prince’s Trust Explore Enterprise Course, running in Barnstaple on 24th – 27th February at Barnstaple Fire station.
The Prince’s Trust Explore Enterprise course is a four day exploration of the skills and requirements a person will need to become self employed.