This month, our friends at Exeter Live Better have been talking about ‘Innovation’. It’s a big word, innovation, and can mean so many things. What does innovation mean? For some people, particularly those in the business world, innovation might mean finding new ways...
What are we talking about? Last week we launched #ShareYourMoves, a summer ‘campaign’ to encourage people to share photos, videos and stories about what kind of physical movement they do, day to day. The campaign is a conversation starter, an invitation to think about...
#ShareYourMovesWe are asking people from Exeter and Cranbrook to join in with our campaign #ShareYourMoves, to get an area wide conversation going about what makes it easier to move more, day to day. It’s been a challenging year and many of our lives and daily habits...
Live and Move are working with a local artist and two local schools on the collaborative Bridge Arts project. Students will have the chance to see their work displayed permanently on one of the city’s bridges from this summer. Willowbrook Primary School and St James...
Les Bright of the Exeter Ramblers has written this week’s blog, telling us how walking in the local area has kept him and his wife, Jane, going through a tough year. Photo of Jane, walking down College Lane to Ide – will she beat the rain? Life-saving activity?...
Live and Move are working with Exeter City Council and Devon County Council to find out if there are any improvements Newtown residents would like to see in their area. We want to hear your view, so we can design improvements that will increase the ways you can...
Photo from Eleanor Tomlinson of one of the green spaces Exeter has to offer, for which lots of us have been grateful over the last year! Andy O’Doherty is one of the Community Physical Activity Organisers working in Wellbeing Exeter, hosted by CITY Community Trust....
Anyone else feel like they’ve been in a bit of a slump so far in 2021? I’ll admit, I had what is best described as the Mother Of All Januarys this year. Motivation and positivity were at a low tide. Motivation to plan for the coming year, motivation to move and be...
We’re well into the festive season now and many of our partners and friends across the city are looking forward to a well-earned break in the coming week. It’s been an extraordinary year, 2020, and we’ve been witness to some truly exceptional – true – stories here at...
I was catching up with a friend recently, one of those zoom cuppa-tea calls that have replaced sinking into a comfy armchair at the local coffee house. He asked how work was, and I realised I hadn’t had the chance to tell him much about it yet. “So your job, it’s...
I was out walking the other morning, exercising the dog after the school run, and saw in the grass little clumps of dew-laden cobwebs. This wasn’t unusual, it’s one of those things we see underfoot all the time and sort of stop noticing. But this day I was in a...
“Why do we have to go for a walk again, Mummy?” my five-year-old son complained while I was digging out the cupboard under the stairs, in the vain hope that there were some wellies in there that both fit and didn’t let the muddy water in three minutes after getting...
We are now 2 weeks into lockdown number 2 and communities and volunteers across Exeter have not missed a beat. What’s going on? The Exeter Community Wellbeing hotline (01392 265000, Monday to Friday 9am – 5pm) has been active ever since 23 March but prepared for...
From January 2021, people who live in Cranbrook or have a strong connection to the town will be able to apply for funding for community led projects, through the newly launched Move More Cranbrook Community Grants fund. Cllr Matt Osborn of Cranbrook Town Council said,...
