News and reports about events and community in and around Totnes in Devon
An article about the Free Conversations Movement caught my eye recently, so I had a quick look at the website. I decided not apply to join, but that simple idea of giving anyone the opportunity to have a chat appealed to me and I decided to give it a go on my own. I floated…
19th November 2021 Recently a petition requesting that the Town Council should not allow the Awakening Conference to take place in the Civic Hall which they administer arrived in my email. After researching a number of the speakers I felt sufficiently concerned to add my name to the petition. I was not alone. As well…
South Hams residents experiencing financial hardship can now get help with paying essential bills through the Government’s new Household Support Fund. For more information and to apply to the Household Support Fund click here. The new Household Support Fund is designed to provide rapid short-term financial support for people who don’t have enough money to buy…
11th November 2021 Just as the 26th Conference of Parties (COP26) in Glasgow comes to a close, where world leaders have pledged to take action on climate change, local charity Transition Town Totnes is ramping up its efforts to help residents adapt and face the challenges ahead. Transition Town Totnes (TTT) has been successful in…
10th November 2021 RGB Building Supplies has selected Totnes-based Sirona Therapeutic Horsemanship as a finalist in its Surprise Supplies giveaway and it’s now down to a public vote to see if it is one of two charities chosen to receive £1,000 worth of building materials. Sirona provides equine-based therapeutic and educational activities to disadvantaged, disabled and excluded young people in order to increase…
Brighten Up Your Week! Totnes artist Fiona Green has a new free-to-view exhibition on that’s accurately called ‘A Passion for Colour’. Adelaide Daws visited her to get the lowdown for the Pulse. Visit the exhibition in one of 2 central Totnes locations from the 14th to 26th October for a welcome blast of colours that these…
A local group of people inspired by the Climate Emergency Centre network are in the process of establishing a Climate Change Response Centre in the middle of Totnes. It will be a place that hopes to inspire, educate & enable the community to respond effectively, intelligently & creatively to climate & ecological breakdown at a…
XR experts share their knowledge and work in Europe’s first Immersive Dome in Market Hall, Plymouth, UK XR21 present their first Immersive Arts Symposium in partnership with Real Ideas, Plymouth University, Plymouth Arts, Plymouth City College and Falmouth University. The Symposium is aimed at producers, filmmakers, gamers, VR and installation artists and students who…
Exeter-based landscape artist Kath Hadden will be giving Devon CPRE the benefit of her expertise this autumn to help find the county’s most talented young landscape artists. Devon CPRE, the local branch of the countryside charity, recently launched a new competition to find Devon’s Best Young Landscape Artist 2021 Budding young artists up…
Whatever Happened To … … the mass movement Labour Party that from 2015 exploded into life tripling membership and winning the votes of 2/3 of those under 40 to get behind the Green Revolution, Wealth-Sharing and Pro-Peace policies that Jeremy Corbyn brought to the fore? … huge crowds of fired-up suddenly hopefuls, unexpectedly invigorated after…