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Devon Development Education at the Global Centre
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Working with schools and communities to help people of all ages understand the big issues in the world and their involvement in them; make links with the ‘global village’ within and outside Devon; and work together for a more just and sustainable world.
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✨Christmas Appeal 2025 – Skills Training in Uganda ✨

Support an uplifting project that trains teachers and young people in beekeeping - a valuable, income-boosting skill 🐝🐝

Every donation, big or small, makes a real difference:
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#ChristmasFundraiser
December 1, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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🎉 Win a Nintendo Switch 2 Bundle AND £500 for your cause! 🎉
Support us through the Exeter Community Lottery and you’ll be entered into an amazing prize draw.
💙 Every ticket you buy helps support local good causes right here in our community.
🎟️ bit.ly/3M7O9R8
#ExeterCommunityLottery #Exeter
November 27, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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🌿 Resilient Roots 🌿
A brave and as-safe-as-possible space for People of Colour and those of mixed heritage to come together and tend to the impact of current far-right activity on our bodies, hearts, and minds.
🗓️ Sunday 7 Dec
🕑 2–5pm
📍 St Sidwell's Centre, EX4 6NN
Book via📧 [email protected]
November 27, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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🖤 Celebrating Windrush in Devon 🖤

Our inspiring project Celebrating Windrush in Devon highlights the powerful legacy of the Windrush generation – people who came from the Caribbean to the UK (from around 1948 to 1971) and helped rebuild post-war Britain.

#togetherindevon
#CelebratingWindrush
A green background, a DDE logo, a 5 photo collage of Windrush project photos. Windrush denotes the post-war immigration of West Indian people to the UK . We celebrate people in Devon. Celebrating Windrush in Devon Registered Charity No. 1102233 www.globalcentredevon.org.uk
November 24, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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A Cultural Champion is a Devon resident from another culture or religion who comes into the classroom, workplace or community to give pupils an authentic personal view of their culture.

Want to know more? Get in touch!

#CulturalChampions #CelebrateDiversity #DevonCommunity #HeritageStories
A green background with a picture of lots of hands in a circle. A Cultural Champion is a Devon resident from another culture or religion who comes into the classroom, workplace or community to give pupils an authentic personal view of their culture. Registered Charity No. 1102233 www.globalcentredevon.org.uk
November 20, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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📣 This Saturday - Exeter Together! 💚✨
Exeter stands proud as an inclusive, welcoming city. Join our peaceful protest with our March and Rally for hope and unity 🌈
#ExeterTogether #ExeterUnites #WeAreExeter
#InclusiveExeter #MulticulturalExeter
#AntiRacistExeter #StandUpToRacism
#StrongerTogether
A colourful and bright poster for a March and Rally Unite Against the Far Right in Exeter on Saturday 22 November. Meeting at Bedford Square at 11am on the High Street.
November 20, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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📣 We're Recruiting a Volunteer Treasurer!

We are a charity in Exeter looking for a committed, community-minded Treasurer to join our Board of Trustees.

👉 Send us a message or email [email protected] to find out more.
A recruitment poster for Devon Development Education (DDE) seeking a volunteer Treasurer. The top section shows a group of children’s and adults’ hands coming together in a circle, all wearing colorful beaded bracelets. The DDE logo is in the upper left. Large green text reads ‘Treasurer Needed’ beside an icon of hands forming a heart shape. Below, paragraphs explain the charity’s mission and call for volunteers with finance skills. Two circular photos on the right show: one group of adults sitting in a circle around a patterned cloth during a workshop, and another group of children outdoors wearing bright yellow outfits and raising their arms. The bottom includes contact information, the website link, an email address, and a green button labelled ‘Please get in touch.’ The details are 01392 438 811 or dde@globalcentredevon.org.uk
November 20, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Gorgeous day for the Windrush Cricket down in Exmouth. Come on down!
August 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Come and visit us at @exerespect.bsky.social
June 8, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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This is happening on zoom at 1800 this evening.
Link here.

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January 13, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Fancy doing good this Christmas, and all year round?
Sign up as a regular donor to DDE and help fund our school-based work all year round!
Image shows coloured pencils each with a DDE project listed. There is a QR code and details of how to donate to our Christmas appeal.
December 14, 2024 at 8:55 AM
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Monday 29th on zoom
December 7, 2024 at 4:36 PM
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Ghee ready to start his talk here at Exeter Community Centre
Ghee ready to start his talk on The Great Épinal Escape in front of his first PowerPoint slide.
December 4, 2024 at 7:01 PM
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On 11 May 1944 3,000 Indian prisoners of war escaped from the town of Épinal in northeastern France … could they make it to Switzerland, neutral territory, over 100km away?

Find out what happened when Ghee Bowman talks about his latest book.
Exeter Weds 4th 7pm

#WorldWarII #IndianSoldiers
December 2, 2024 at 8:41 AM