Category: Area News and Blogs
News, blogs and articles from the project Areas; including Barnstaple, Bideford, Combe Martin, Ilfracombe, Lynton, Hamp, Bridgwater and Taunton.
Combe Martin Trip to Broomhill Sculpture Gardens
The Green Ambassadors of Combe Martin had their first visit to the site of the Community Garden they are going to create. First they visited Broomhill Sculpture Gardens to look at art in a natural environment and gain ideas for their own project. Using this as inspiration they were able to start thinking how they [...]
Ilfracombe trip to Pinkery
Young people from Ilfracombe Family Centre braved the elements to explore Exmoor over half term. With the guidance of Tim, one of the Exmoor rangers the young people reached the highest point on Exmoor and were rewarded with beautiful views before the hail storm came over and the group retreated to the warmth of Pinkery [...]
Combe Martin Community Garden
On Thursday 28Th of October Local PCSO Officers, Exmoor Rangers and youth group leaders spent a day clearing an area of land in Combe Martin. Permission has been granted to use this area as a Community Garden, which young people with the Green Ambassadors project are going to design and develop. The site is now [...]
Big Green Day and Climate Change Mural
More than 150 local children took part in a Big Green Day at Nettlecombe Court recently to celebrate the end of the Heritage Ambassadors Project when a new commemorative mural was also on display.
Children from Old Cleeve School showed the green way forward by walking from their school to Nettlecombe Court where they and [...]
The end of Heritage Ambassadors Project
The Mayor of Bridgwater invited along recently to mark the end of the 12 month Heritage Ambassadors project by attaching a plaque to the Centre’s mascot, a phoenix carved in Exmoor oak.
The project was funded by the Heritage Lottery in partnership with Exmoor National Park Authority, Quantocks AONB, Somerset Wildlife Trust and the Field Studies [...]
EXMOOR PROVIDES ‘THE BIGGEST BEAK IN BRIDGWATER’
A phoenix carved out of a solid piece of Exmoor oak, weighing around 2 tons, will be lifted by crane over the rail of the ReCreation Centre on the Hamp Estate in Bridgwater on Wednesday 25 October 2006
The sculpture, carved out of oak from Horner Woods, was made by chainsaw sculptor Paul lles from Exmoor National [...]
