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Torquay’s Other History: The Newton Abbot Workhouse Scandal of 1894

Workshouse

The Newton Abbot Workshouse was home to those those unable to provide for themselves through extreme poverty, and a series of abuses to those vulnerable people

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B&B in Devon in modernist style

Kaywana Hall

Devon is home to some excellent B&Bs and not all of them are traditional

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Organisations you should know: Community Cooperative

Community Cooperative

Torbay’s Community Cooperative grew out of the council’s aim to privatise Babbacombe Downs, but its aims are the opening up of local democracy truly available and accessible to everyone

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Five minutes with… 5 profiles of the region's top food and drink producers

Iain Thompson

Iain Thompson of the Deli Shack, is an expert on the region’s top food and drink. He profiles some of the producers in his Five Minutes With… articles in his column on the Devon Week. Here are some of them

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Sit on it! Haldon Hill journey reimagined on a deckchair

Jacqueline Hammand's deckchair

Artist Jacqueline Hammond’s painting of Mum’s Drive Home, over Haldon Hill from Teignmouth to Chudleigh, has been recreated on an artprint deckchair

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Translation service for an increasingly multicultural Devon

Multilingua Devon

The social enterprise translation service Multilingua in Exeter plans to expand its business activities by 20% per annum over the next four years.

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Social enterprise car washing and valeting service has nationwide aspirations

Future Clean

Future Clean, a car washing and valeting service from Exeter-based social enterprise, Pluss, is rapidly expanding across the country

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