Community & Society

Stories about Community & Society

A Flow Orchard wassail in full swing

SUNDAY 22 JANUARY 2023

Flow Orchard wassail

Traditional music and song, story and celebration with apple juice and cider round an open fire.

TREWS WEIR ORCHARD

Extinction Rebellion Exeter activists at Cambridge Circus in London in 2021

TUESDAY 10 JANUARY 2023

Extinction Rebellion 100 days campaign

Exeter event is first step towards April gathering of 100,000 people in Parliament Square.

CLIMATE ACTION HUB EXETER

Exeter City Council expected to increase council housing rents

Exeter City Council is expected to impose a 7% rent and service charge increase on council housing tenants – the maximum allowed – at a meeting on 10 January.

City council to receive £1.3 million homelessness prevention grant

Exeter City Council has been allocated a £1.3 million share over two years of a £654 million government homelessness prevention grant.

Lottery graphic

Council lottery operator to take cut from local charitable donations

Decision to promote gambling as “incentivised giving” plays down risks without assessing potential impacts or evidencing claimed benefits, disrupting relationships between community and voluntary sector organisations and supporters.

Striking nurses at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital

Historic nurses strike goes ahead after government refuses to negotiate over pay

Royal College of Nursing members out in force at Exeter NHS trusts alongside colleagues across the country as recruitment crisis threatens profession.

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