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- 24th November 2014
As the Festive Season approaches and the Christmas preparations begin, the question of ‘real’ or ‘artificial’ Christmas trees is an evergreen debate. Here we provide the pros and cons to both sorts of trees!
- 17th November 2014
Christmas lights are lights used for decoration around Christmas. The custom goes back to the use of candles to decorate the Christmas tree in upper-class homes in 18th-century Germany. Christmas trees displayed publicly and illuminated with electric lights became popular in the early 20th century.
- 28th October 2014
Wednesday 29th October is the UK's first official National Employee Motivation Day. A nationwide study, commissioned by Argos for Business, has revealed that over half of British workers are unmotivated at work.
- 20th October 2014
The younger generation, particularly, may be interested to know that this is not about I-pods, Mac's and I-Pads! It's is a day to recognise the wealth and variety of apples available in the United Kingdom. The day was first started in 1990 by Common Ground in Covent Garden.
- 13th October 2014
As one of the regular sponsors of Barnstaple’s annual Foodfest, Johns of Instow and Appledore will be bringing the award winning ‘From Barrel to Bottle’ to the event this year. Now in its seventh year, Foodfest 2014 will take place on Sunday 19th October 2014 at Barnstaple’s Historic Pannier Market.
- 15th September 2014
The Great British Beach Clean is launched once again this September! Why? Because the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) knows that the coast is a single environment of its own that needs extra special focus! The beach clean weekend is into its 21st year and all the information collected is made into useful data for the Big Weekend survey.
- 9th September 2014
On Thursday 11 September & Saturday 13 September St Anne’s Arts & Community Centre will be open for special events. Learn about the history of St Anne’s stone by stone with a free lunchtime lecture from architect Jim Gardner, followed by free drawing classes led by local professionals Quay Drawing. For this year’s Heritage Open Days we are delving into the building itself, thinking about how it’s put together in comparison with modern buildings and finding out what makes St Anne’s special.
- 21st July 2014
On Saturday 2 August St Anne’s Arts Centre will be hosting a day of free World War 1 themed activities.
Cancer Research UK's Race for Life is a series of 5 kilometre or 10 kilometre women-only events, which are raising money for research to help beat all 200 types of cancer sooner! Barnstaple's Race for Life starts adjacent to the Tarka Tennis Centre car park.
St Anne's Chapel sits in a green, pedestrianised precinct in the centre of Barnstaple. The Chapel is a Gothic building, thought to date predominantly to the early 14th Century, although there are no records to prove or disprove this. North Devon Moving Image (NDMI) is looking for local people to get involved with an oral history film making project about St Anne's Chapel in Barnstaple.