As an integrated cross sector wellbeing and innovation hub our goal is to improve lives by improving the context in which support for change occurs, as well as delivering meaningful and relevant services. Supporting people with complex life situations and multiple disadvantages, such as mental ill-health, homelessness, domestic and sexual violence and abuse, substance misuse, (re)offending and poverty
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Making Devon's communities even safer
Safer Devon is a partnership of public, voluntary and community organisations that work together to make Devon’s communities safer. It provides leadership for community safety work carried out across the county.
Partners include Devon’s four local Community Safety Partnerships (CSPs) which conduct work in the following areas:
- East and Mid Devon
- Exeter
- North Devon and Torridge
- South Devon and Dartmoor (Teignbridge, South Hams and West Devon)
Safer Devon and its partners are committed to supporting Devon’s communities through preventing and tackling community safety issues which negatively affect local people and communities, such as crime, hidden and visible harm and exploitation.
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The Friends of the Grand Western Canal is for all who enjoy the South West's grandest attraction!
Some enjoy the Grand Western for Olympic training; others want nothing more than a relaxing walk with the dog on a winter morning. The canal is home to trail-boats and narrow-boats as well as enjoyed by visiting paddlers and canoeists. It hosts a staggering variety of wildlife and some of the finest fishing in the South West.
Whatever floats your boat, if it's connected with the Grand Western Canal then we are here for you!
We work closely with the Devon County Council Rangers team who manage the Grand Western Country Park in Devon
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We’ve launched an emergency appeal as we’re dependent on our admission income and have limited cash reserves. You can donate by clicking here.
Explore the museum’s large, outstanding collections and trace the fascinating history of Mid Devon. The displays include the ‘Tivvy Bumper’ GWR steam engine, local industries (particularly lace making), farm waggons and the history of agriculture, and the every day home life of Mid Devon folk.
The museum is family friendly and offers a warm welcome to everyone. There is a lively temporary exhibition programme – please look at the events page for further details.
Tiverton Museum of Mid Devon Life was started by a few energetic individuals concerned that many of the objects and much of the information about Tiverton and the surrounding areas would be lost if nothing was done to collect them in the rapidly changing post-war world.
The museum is an independent charitable trust. The museum receives grants from Mid Devon District Council and Tiverton Town Council that contribute towards our running costs, although we remain dependent upon other grants, donations, fundraising and income generated through admission and shop sales.
We have been delighted to win a number of awards in the past few years, including Trip Adviser Certificate of Excellence 2019 and Trip Adviser Hall of Fame 2019.
https://www.tivertonmuseum.org.uk/
Tiverton Museum of Mid Devon Life Beck’s Square, Tiverton EX16 6PJ
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Meetings were held in the Church Rooms, on the 3rd Thursday in the month, starting at 7:30pm. We are now looking for someone in the area to run the meetings. We have a number of speakers who are able to give interesting talks. All we are looking for is someone willing to arrange the meetings.
We also have all the archives stored in a database with key word catalogue access. Weekend Open Days are organised from time to time at various locations across the Blackdowns. We have a new web site storing all types of media of the Blackdown Hills area. Please look at:
The development of this web site and the expansion of the Archive activity plus the Open Days have been made possible with a grant from the Making it Local fund and the AONB office in Hemyock.
You can see the calendar on this site to see what is planned for future meetings.
The Archiving Project which has received a grant from the Sustainable Development Fund of the Blackdown Hills AONB has allowed the project to progress. An Image Library is being created of old photos and documents to be stored in a database so that specific requests can be answered by providing good quality prints. You can see some of the items we have archived in our Media Gallery on this site or visit blackdownarchives.org.uk.
Various projects are run from time to time. The latest project was the writing and publishing of the book "The Upper Culm Valley before, during and after the First World War."
We also have a library of interesting historical books about the area. These are available if someone is researching a particular subject.
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Willand History Group was formed in 2001 with the objectives of (1) studying the history of our parish and its surrounding area, (2) collecting and preserving archive material, and (3) disseminating information through meetings, publications and other activities. It is a small and informal group (annual membership is £5) that currently meets ‘as required’ at Willand Village Hall to discuss ongoing projects, bring along new archive material and catch up on village gossip!
Members are encouraged to pursue their own research and interests or to join in with group activities, as they wish. Our most significant achievement has been publication of an illustrated history of the parish: The Book of Willand: From Doomsday to Millennium (Halsgrove, 2007). We have also held various ‘historical parish walks’, had a go at guided field walking, and held a number of exhibitions at the Village Hall, based on on-going research and material from the Willand Archive; themes from recent years include the First World War, family history, farming and artefacts unearthed by a local metal detectorist.
https://www.willandmatters.org.uk/pages/pv.asp?p=willand72
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Welcome to the website of Uffculme Local History Group. Here you will find lots of information about the history of Uffculme Parish and details of what is happening in the Local History Group. Please check the 'News' and 'Events' pages for recent updates, information about activities, outings and news items, including a copy of our regular article in Spotlight, the monthly magazine for Uffculme Parish.
We hope you enjoy visiting our website and look forward to welcoming you to our next meeting, whenever that may be in the present circumstances of the pandemic ... during this time while we have to postpone our regular programme of face-to-face events, we are posting extra content on this website to keep you in touch. We are also trying to include lots of information about online events hosted by other organisations which we hope you will find useful and interesting.
http://www.uffculmehistory.com/
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We are a small but well-established amateur Archaeology group operating in the Tiverton area of Devon. We might be small…but we are very active and have members ranging from professional local Archaeologists to keen armchair enthusiasts. We are always open to new members. Everyone who joins our group is welcome to do as little or as much as they want. Some just enjoy coming to listen to our monthly talks, others also undertake fieldwork and excavation and/or join the club committee. You definitely don’t need to be super fit to join our group!
Our area of interest is by no means limited to Tiverton. Monthly talks (presented by experienced Archaeologists) can be about Archaeological research or excavation happening locally, regionally or worldwide. For fieldwork, we benefit from our mid Devon location. Members have been involved in the Exmoor Iron Project for the last four years and we currently have members volunteering on the Princesshay excavations in Exeter city centre.
This website is still very much under development. We hope to bring you more information about the projects we have been involved in and our members very soon. In the meantime, please email any questions to
http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/devonclp/Tiverton_archaeology_Group.htm
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The Sampford Peverell Society is the local history group for the Parish, taking a broad view of what constitutes 'history'. Our interests cover the archaeology, buildings, social history, family histories and natural history of our rural Mid-Devon parish.
We always have several projects in progress, ranging from archaeological fieldwork, to producing publications, transcribing documents, nature conservation and putting on historically-themed events (see 'Projects' for further information). Our members, who number in excess of 70, are encouraged to get involved with whatever projects capture their interest.
We generally hold four meetings a year at which we have a guest speaker, and updates are given on the progress with project work. They are also social occasions! In additions, outings are arranged to places of interest, often being those only open to group visits.
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The Society was formed by David Edmund, and a number of residents on the 26th October 1981.
An enthusiastic local historian, David was an authority on the village as well as having a keen interest in many other historical topics, including Exeter's Theatre Royal.
Monthly meetings were originally held at The New Hall (until it was demolished), and then at the Silverton Primary School, with guest speakers when David was not giving the talk himself and he regularly illustrated these with slides from his large collection.
After David's death from Leukaemia in May 1993, when aged only 64, the Society continued under the leadership of Wilf and Joan Barnes. During 1998 a number of members decided to collate as much information as possible with the aim of publishing a book depicting village history. "The book of Silverton" an A4 hard back volume with 160 pages, priced at £19.95, was launched on November 1st 2000. 400 copies were sold prior to publication, and by December 2004 all remaining copies had also been sold.
Monthly meetings are now held in Silverton Millennium hall, on the third Monday of each month from March to November, with visiting speakers giving talks on a variety of historical and other subjects. These talks are advertised in the monthly Parish Magazine, which also contains an historical article aimed at sustaining an interest in the Society and the history of the parish.
In recent years the average attendance at the Society's monthly meetings has doubled from previously being in the region of twenty and membership now stands at over fifty.
http://www.silvertonlocalhistory.co.uk/
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