East Devon shines at regional small business awards
Come along to a day of history and culture next Saturday in Honiton
District council by-election to be held next month
More than 60,000 free meals given to East Devon families
Masterplan for Clyst Valley Regional Park up for national award
News and updates:
East Devon shines at regional small business awards
The Economic Development team at East Devon District Council have been awarded the prestigious ‘best in the West’ title for its support for the local small business community – as well as making the shortlist in the national awards category.
Over 250 councils nationally entered the inaugural Local Government awards run by the Federation of Small Businesses and the £2.1m Innovation and Resilience Fund scooped the ‘Future Ready’ category prize. Judges were impressed by the success of the scheme in helping businesses emerge from the pandemic, recover and deliver innovative projects of value to the district’s economy and local employment. East Devon also made the shortlist for the ‘All Round Small Business Friendly’ award for our EastDevonly campaign.
Sue Wilkinson, FSB Development Manager for Devon, said she was delighted that East Devon had won one of the four regional awards on offer: “The team at East Devon work hard to support small businesses and I am absolutely delighted that this work has resulted in them winning the FSB South West ‘Future Ready’ category and being recognised for their work in the ‘All Round Small Business Friendly’ category too. It’s a fabulous result especially considering huge number of councils they were competing against!”
Come along to a day of history and culture next Saturday in Honiton
You are invited to come along to an afternoon of music, dance, food and history to mark the 50th anniversary of the British Ugandan Asians’ arrival at Heathfield Resettlement Camp in Honiton, Devon.
Want to learn even more about the history of the 1600 Asians who were housed for 6 months at the former army camp?
Pay a visit to the exhibition at the Thelma Hulbert Gallery in Honiton, now on until the 29 October 2022.
District council by-election to be held next month
A by-election is to take place on Thursday, 10 November 2022 for a new councillor to represent the Newton Poppleford and Harpford ward of East Devon District Council.
The vacancy has arisen following the death of Cllr Val Ranger, the vice-chair of the council, who died on August 2 after a battle with cancer.
Three candidates are standing:
Chris Burhop (Independent) - the current chair of Newton Poppleford Parish Council
Paul Carter (Conservative)
Caleb Early (Labour)
The winning candidate will serve for six months, as the whole council will be up for election in May 2023.
More than 60,000 free meals given to East Devon families
Hundreds of East Devon residents have been given more than 60,000 free meals in the past year thanks to a council-food provider partnership with Fareshare.
It comes as part of a special project which not only helps to reduce unnecessary food waste, looking after our environment, but it also helps families, from all walks of life, to reduce shopping bills.
Masterplan for Clyst Valley Regional Park up for national award
We are thrilled to announce that our 25-year masterplan to turn Clyst Valley Regional Park into a wildlife haven, has been shortlisted in finals for the ‘Excellence in Plan Making’, as part of the Royal Town Planning Institute Awards 2022.
Due to the bad weather today, our community day in Honiton with free pizza, cost of living support and a big spruce up has been re-scheduled for next month.
The event will now be taking place on Thursday, 24 November 2022.
A free climate change event is being held in East Devon next week
Practical solutions for a transition to a low carbon economy
This session, led by industry experts, will help demystify this emerging trend and give you some practical suggestions for taking your business forwards.
You will gain lots of advice and support helping you to take the first step towards a low carbon economy. Find out what is coming down the line, learn from case studies and hear about the funding situation.
If you want to stay up to date with the latest news about grants for East Devon businesses, or other news about business opportunities, funding and training, you must subscribe to East Devon Business news
Latest news and newsletters
East Devon District Council also produce regular newsletters and news on different topics, in the last week we have issued the following which may be of interest:
Over the next week the following East Devon District Council meetings are taking place. Any public meetings will be streamed live to the Council’s YouTube channel, and in the event of difficulties these will be streamed on our Facebook page instead.
As we approach the winter season with Halloween, bonfire night and Christmas, we get more food waste than at any other time of the year.
The best thing to do with food is to eat and enjoy it, however, even the most diligent shoppers and best cooks will always have some unavoidable food waste.
To make recycling your food waste easier and cleaner, line your caddy with any plastic bag; residents tell us that bread bags and the liners to cereal packets are their food caddy liner favourites!
Please make sure you use your blue food caddy to recycle your unavoidable food waste. It is a very valuable resource which, once collected, we use to generate green energy and produce bio-fertiliser for farms.
Join over 30,000 people using our smartphone app and get simple personalised collection reminders, the latest collection updates and tell us about a missed collection.
Our Creative Cabin is teaming up with the Blackdown Hills AONB for Half Term art activities at the Ferne Animal Sanctuary. For details on admission prices, please visit Ferne Animal Sanctuary.
Join photographer Sam White in his camera obscura in the THG Garden. Climb inside the camera obscura tent to discover how a camera really works and create your own family portraits.
Friday, 28 October, drop in 10.30am-12.00pm. Free!
This month’s creative session for under 5’s and their parents/carers will have a Halloween theme.
Wild East Devon
Come along to our winter remedies workshop
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Medicinal Herbalist Maggie's workshop aims to enable an understanding of why and how we get ill in the winter, how a herbalist’s approach to treatment differs from that of conventional medicine, and which plant medicines can be made at home, in order to help prevent us getting ill, or to ease symptoms if we do
The workshop will include practical demonstrations of three simple remedies that can be taken for colds and flu, and there will be tastings, information sheets, recipe sheets and a list of useful books and online resources.
To keep in touch with the Wild East Devon Team follow them on Facebook and Twitter
New winter fire safety campaign from Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service
We have just launched our winter fire safety campaign called ‘Save safely’ – read our news article about the campaign. We’ve created this campaign in response to the cost-of-living crisis, to encourage people to think about fire safety when it comes to saving money.
We’re focusing on three main things to help keep people safe.
1. Check smoke and carbon monoxide alarms.
You should have working smoke alarms on every level of your home, and a carbon monoxide alarm in every room where fuel is burned (this includes gas cookers, open fires, and log burners).
2. Use heaters safely.
Keep them at least one metre (3.3ft) away from everything. Never dry clothes on heaters.
3. Avoid using candles.
If you must use them, put them in proper fire retardant holders, and keep away from anything that could catch fire.
We plan to send out our next bulletin on Friday, 28 October 2022.
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