From the District Council’s website: Green Flag awards for three of East Devon’s much loved green spaces 13 August 2018 East Devon District Council’s Seaton… Read More »Connaught Gardens, Sidmouth given the Green Flag award for the 15th year running
Ottery one step closer to becoming an accredited plastic-free town. Council back motion to make Ottery a plastic-free town
The events pages highlight next Saturday’s big event in Sidmouth: Sidmouth Food Festival The Herald gives a little more: Kennaway House hosts the Sidmouth Food… Read More »Third annual Food Festival @ Kennaway House
The Transition Town Network has just sent out this to all TTs: Transition Network – our new Purpose!
A great project from the 10:10 campaign, now called Possible: Powering Parks Parks are the perfect place to take kids to play, enjoy a quiet… Read More »Installing heat pumps in parks to generate low carbon heat
Last month, the Observatory got some really good news: The District Council supports the Norman Lockyer Observatory with a £50k loan to build a new… Read More »Sidmouth astroscouts are over the moon that works can start on observatory extension – as the SVA supports the Norman Lockyer Observatory with a £20k grant to build a new classroom
The Sidmouth Repair Café will be having its first session next month: Sidmouth Repair Café launches – and looks for repairers! Sidmouth Repair Café Meanwhile,… Read More »10 Stories of Transition in the US: The Spread of Repair Cafés
As reported by Transition Exmouth, the wonderful ‘Rhubarb and Runner Beans’ blog has now got a regular column in the Exmouth Journal: … Read More »“Everyone can make a difference” > Exmouth’s eco-friendly-living blogger
We are finding it more and more difficult to get by, as reported by the Exmouth Journal: More people in East Devon struggling to pay… Read More »Personal insolvency on the rise in East Devon
Waiting for an allotment has been an issue for some time now – as this piece from the Futures Forum of February 2014 shows: Allotments… Read More »Five-year waiting list for Sidmouth allotments
The District Council has been advertising its annual get-together for volunteer and community groups taking place next month: Voluntary organisations and community groups invited to… Read More »Working Together for the future of East Devon 2018 conference > book your place!
The Herald reports on a Sidmouth business which continues to win awards – and which is very much a local concern: They use local people… Read More »Four Elms Fruit Farm wins gold at Taste of the West
The Bromley Times reports from Sidmouth: Bromley scout group fights against litter at Sidmouth beach The Sidmouth Herald reports from home: A visiting scout group… Read More »A 2-minute beach clean during the Sidmouth Folk Week
Sidmouth, like other East Devon towns, is haemorrhaging shops: Sidmouth loses another high street shop And like other East Devon towns, it seems to be haemorrhaging… Read More »Sidmouth loses another high street bank
The silly season has begun: Tractor stolen from Sidmouth’s Donkey Sanctuary recovered in IRELAND Meanwhile, Devon Live interviews the CEO: Fact checking the myth that… Read More »Donkey Sanctuary annual report > it is not the richest charity in the UK!