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,...
Welcome to Live and Move! We figured that the first blog on our shiny new website (let us know what you think of it?) should be an introduction. Though we think some of you may know us already… Live and Move is the public face for an ambitious vision and a whole bunch...
Our journey… “After being locked down and working from home from March and the children being home I realised that after some weeks we weren’t getting any exercise, everyone had fallen into a slump of rolling out of bed and sitting at our makeshift desks and not...
When the government announced that the UK was going into lockdown and that all group activities were to cease immediately, running groups faced a dilemma as to how to respond. Do they just put the shutters up and say, ‘closed until further notice’?...
The Royal Devon & Exeter Foundation Trust’s Staff Challenge is called ‘Going the Extra Mile’. The premise of the challenge was to record any movement or activity that staff took part in throughout July. Examples...
