Community & Society

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Exeter Seed Bank seed swap envelopes

SUNDAY 2 MARCH 2025

Exeter Seed Swap 2025

Third annual event also includes hands-on activities, stalls and displays with talks on composting, welcoming wildlife and community medicine gardens.

SIDWELL STREET

Aerial view of Wonford community learning centre and sports centre

Plans for unfunded £7 million Wonford community hub redevelopment approved

Exeter City Council approves own planning application to demolish, rebuild and part-refurbish existing community and sports facilities beside Ludwell Valley Park.

International Womens Festival 2025 keyframe

SATURDAY 15 MARCH 2025

International Women’s Festival 2025

A free one-day festival celebrating women with live music, art, workshops, panel discussions and more.

EXETER PHOENIX

Our World from Space events collage

SATURDAY 15 FEBRUARY 2025

Our World from Space

Exeter Science Centre hosts a day of hands-on satellite science.

EMMANUEL HALL

Woodcut illustrating an execution by burning at the stake

SATURDAY 1 FEBRUARY 2025

History Book Festival

One-day event with talks from four Devon historians and stalls from local heritage organisations.

MINT METHODIST CHURCH CENTRE

Mark Kingscote and Alison Hernandez

Deputy police and crime commissioner Mark Kingscote resigns five months after defiant appointment by Alison Hernandez

Resignation follows appointment of third Devon & Cornwall Police chief constable in eighteen months after suspensions of Jim Colwell in November and Will Kerr in July 2023.

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