Exeter based group supporting grassroots initiatives and promoting community development through civic engagement and volunteering.

Joined February 2011
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Six years ago today our first #ActiveCitizen group were in Bahir Dar. Amazing memories, thank you @BritishCouncil & @ExeterCVS #Ethiopia
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We're back tomorrow with our new participatory photography project, Chasing the Light. We can't wait to get started on a new 14-week journey @exetercommunity that includes visits @westtownfarm & @ExeterCathedral lots of interactive photography activities #Exeter #Photovoice
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Delighted to see that #Exeter has been ranked #9 in a list of top 30 greenest towns & cities in the UK (research from @holidu)! Having a high density and variety of accessible parks & #greenspaces across the city is a vital step to achieving our #NetZeroExeter Plan ๐ŸŒผ๐ŸŒณ๐Ÿ™๏ธ๐ŸŒณ๐ŸŒท
30 of the greenest towns and cities in the UK trib.al/HuzZ2Mq
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The sprouts are coming! ๐ŸŒฑ๐Ÿ˜‹๐ŸŽ„ I'm now starting to feel that the emergence of Brussel Sprouts, is a true signal of approaching Autumn & time to plan for next season! ๐Ÿค”๐Ÿ“๐Ÿ’ป Anyone else feel this way? Anyhow, this is the Maximus F1 variety #allotment #BrusselSprouts #Exeter #NoDig
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Can you help? @ColabExeter really need some volunteer help with our garden - it needs some TLC ๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿ’๐ŸŒปAre you green fingered and could spare a couple of hours a week please DM me or email enquiries@colabexeter.org.uk

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In goes the final courgette! Such a satisfying process of bringing on a plant from seed & planting it out. This is Defender F1 variety & apparently a heavy cropper, we shall see๐Ÿคž#allotment #growyourown #Exeter #NoDig
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Shout out to @ArtWorkExeter who've received @ace_national funding, w/ which they can deliver online activity. These collages were made by viewers of @abs_cat "Making a Scene" video on our blog: magiccarpet-arts.co.uk/post/โ€ฆ. #Exeter #artsforhealth #artsforwellbeing #disabilityarts
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Our crowdfunder is now #live! Watch our video to see how each mask is made and where we will be sending them. youtu.be/5JJTpvP93nk Any donation, no matter the size, helps us get PPE to those most in need. Please help us spread the word! crowdfunder.co.uk/help-us-maโ€ฆ #PPE4Exeter
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We're thrilled to announce our new #participatoryphotography project - Photography for Change, which will run 4, 10-week programmes, with the first one starting on Tues 25th Sept. Click below to join eventbrite.co.uk/e/photograpโ€ฆ #Exeter #Photography #community
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"No one thought of me as โ€œthe kind to attempt suicideโ€. Yet, in the early hours of March 13th 2013, I got out of bed, left my sleeping family, drove to a nearby bridge & jumped." - @gillhayes2 #Depression #Suicide #MentalHealth #TEDx #Exeter ow.ly/2SQM30kPnDk
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23 Jul 2018
"So as we look to a brighter tomorrow, let's recognise the fact that we are the people we've been waiting for, we are sufficient unto the challenge, and we are becoming the change we seek." @CormacRussell #TEDxExeter #ABCD #Community ow.ly/Ojij30l0ow5
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18 Jul 2018
"If the richest 10% gave 10% of their incomes to charity, what could we do? Well, that would be $4 trillion a year. @JeffDSachs estimates that it would cost $175 billion a year for 2 decades to solve global poverty forever." Beth Barnes #EffectiveAltruism ow.ly/YBoG30kZGbq
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18 Jul 2018
"When you think about child hunger as a barrier to education, you don't tend to think about this country. But this morning, all over the country, half a million children went to school too hungry to learn." @MagicCarmel #TEDxExeter #Education #SocialChange ow.ly/2ksN30l0fCW
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19 Jul 2018
"Suicide rates in the UK are shockingly high. It is a huge, yet so often overlooked & misunderstood problem in our society. Suicide is the number one cause of death among all young people aged 20-34 & men under 50." - @gillhayes2 #Suicide #Depression ow.ly/Bvej30kZH1g
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13 Jul 2018
"Imagine what would happen if our traditional ways of helping people were flipped. If instead of focusing on what was wrong with individuals, & indeed with entire communities, we started with a focus on whatโ€™s strong." - @CormacRussell #ABCD #Community ow.ly/gDYV30kSHNX
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The #TEDxExeter 2018 talk by @kategarbers - Modern slavery, hidden in plain sight - is now LIVE via the @TEDx YouTube channel. This powerful talk Kate makes the unseen seen, watch it here ow.ly/n16m30kLiDS #modernslavery #slavery #Exeter #TEDx #Slaves #HumanRights
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Our Exeter Aperture Project drew to a close last week with the handing out of the self curated photobooks. HUGE thanks to @devoncf for helping to make this project possible & to all of our participants, as without them we have no project! ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘ #photography #Exeter #Photovoice
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"Hidden in plain sight in Exeter, every day people had their car washed by enslaved men who were forced into working & living in appalling conditions." - @kategarbers @UnseenOrg #TEDxExeter 2018 ow.ly/yhq230knqce #ModernSlavery #Slavery #Exeter #HiddeninPlainSight
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31 May 2018
The #TEDxExeter 2018 talk by @JJ_Bola - Reaching for a place to call home - is now LIVE on the @TEDx YouTube channel, check it out here youtu.be/QK-6EnYCwgg #Exeter #Poetry #Poet #SpokenWord #TEDx
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31 May 2018
The #TEDxExeter 2018 talk by @HeresTommy - Barbers, preventing suicide one hair cut at a time - is now LIVE on the @TEDx YouTube channel, watch it here youtu.be/jjAQTH0aZJA #Exeter #mentalhealth #suicide #SuicideAwareness #SuicidePrevention #TEDx #TEDTalks
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25 May 2018
BREAKING NEWS! The #TEDxExeter 2017 talk by @madhumita29 has just been published on @TEDTalks - check out this brilliant talk here ted.com/talks/madhumita_murgโ€ฆ #Data #Technology #Surveillance #Exeter
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