People-Centred Economic Development puts the human element into profit

The People-Centred Economic Development, based in Gloucestershire, has been redefining profit for in human terms. Jeff Mowatt from the company spoke about the social business

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Find the funding opportunties you need for your next new project

You know how it is when all the cupboards are bare, and you’ve got so many projects you want to pursue but for a little lolly (that’s money to you). We know that feeling only too well. Well, here’s some funding opportunities that have come across our desk

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Culturally homogenized Devon debate over on D+CFilm

A few things over on D+CFilm have caught our eye this week, not least South West Screen’s notion that naming something after a Devon myth alienates people from up-country.

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Devon County Council up for green Ashden Award for RE4D scheme

Devon County Council is up to win £30,000 for its Renewable Energy for Devon scheme in the local authority section of the famed Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy 2009, which take place in London on Thursday, June 11.

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Art and food at The Cattle Market Café, Tavistock (updated)

Heather Smith reviews The Cattle Market Cafe, Tavistock

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Kids, keep the car at home and Walk ‘n’ Talk to school this week

It’s day two of Walk to School Week, and this year’s theme, Walk ‘n’ Talk, is giving rise to a Devon County Council competition to design a cartoon journey to school which features a speech bubble conversation. It all sounds like a great photo-story opportunity to the former ‘Jackie’ readers in the PRSD offices.

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Exeter natural paint firm in running for environmental award

The Exeter firm Nutshell Natural Paints are up for an Award for Environmental Responsibility.

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Devon community hospitals to introduce new recycling initiative

Hospitals in Devon are set to introduce a recycling initiative that will reduce the NHS’s carbon footprint.

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Parade’s on in Exeter to mark the start of the Summer Festival

The parade’s on!

A parade, which will also celebrate Lammas, will mark the start of Exeter Summer Festival, and incorporate large-scale sculptures, banners, masks and music from schools and communities throughout the city.

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Mila Oshin from Exeter-based band Drunk With Joy – uplifting downbeat electronica

Exeter-based electronic pop combo Drunk With Joy are in the last 20 of the Red Stripe Awards. We caught up with the enigmatic Mila Oshin to talk her about joy, gigs and how music makes nothing else matter

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The Torbay Bookshop shortlisted for independent bookseller award

Our bookworm buddies at The Torbay Bookshop have been named one of the top independent booksellers in the country again.

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Colin Shaddick picks up third place in Great British Eccentric awards

In the competition to be the most eccentric person in Britain, it can be fair to say there are no losers, or more accurately, Barnstaple’s “splendidly eccentric poet” Colin Shaddick came in a strong third, so he got a trophy and a place won a place on the podium, beating back the likes of

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Book reviews from Sarah Clarke of the Torbay Bookshop

Those South Devon book lovers down a the Torbay Bookshop have yet again been shortlisted for the Independent Bookseller of the Year award. Sarah Clarke, of the already award-winning shop, dropped us a line of some of her latest reads.

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Dawlish art cafe grant of £26,000 looks at The Lawn venue

The possibility of creating an arts cafe in the heart of Dawlish is being investigated to the tune of £26,000.

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