Alzheimer’s Society has partnered with The Dartington Hall Trust to hold a fundraising ‘Memory Walk’ on the Dartington estate on Sunday 12th September.
The Shops at Dartington (formerly the Cider Press Centre) is pleased to announce a new, bold and colourful exhibition of artwork.
As I write this, Dartington International Summer School is in full swing, bringing spaces from the Great Hall to the studios to the courtyard alive with music. I would like to reassure Summer School participants and audiences alike that plans for accommodating Summer School within the new estate plans are in place and this remarkable event will continue to take place at Dartington well into the future.
Students studying the Dartington Certificate in Sustainable Horticulture course experienced overwhelming success recently when they received their first external exam results…
Totnes-based duo David Prior, a composer and lecturer at University College Falmouth, and architect Frances Crow, who together make up arts practice Liminal, are amongst five shortlisted nominees for the £50,000 PRSF New Music Award.
Following an extensive nationwide search and audition process, extraordinary local young singers Sebastian Beamish and Keri Fuge have been cast in lead roles in new productions of The Turn of the Screw and The Marriage of Figaro, taking place at Dartington in August.
Dartington Trustee Dame Jo Williams has been named as one of two social services leaders tasked with shaping the future of adult care funding in England and Wales.
The Department of Health this week announced the establishment of a Commission on the Funding of Care and Support, which will report on how best to reform the care funding system.
Thank you to everyone who has taken part in our recent Community Conversation events. Such has been the positive reaction to these events that we have made a commitment to hold them quarterly going forward. Here are the Top 20 Questions – and answers! – asked at the meetings.
The Devon programme of the School for Social Entrepreneurs has announced it will be providing a second year of action learning, tutoring and practical experiences for bold and entrepreneurial people with a social conscience.
Have you got what it takes to get your name on the back of the chair? If so, now is the time to get your short film entered to the SHOOT Totnes Short Film Festival 2010.
Last week at the Directors Policy Forum research in practice for adults launched their latest publication, the Dartington review on the future of adult social care.
King Edward VI Community College and The Dartington Hall Trust today announced the launch of KEVICC’s new Devon Performing Arts Academy (DAPA) on the Dartington estate in September 2010.
Dartington’s International Summer School is once again providing its special offer to local residents in the South Hams, Teignbridge and Torbay for this year’s action-packed five-week festival of inspirational music and dance courses.
Given no choice but to ‘take a rain check’ on a wet and windy day in early June, we were delighted to welcome our volunteers to a very sunny Dartington for our annual tea party on Wednesday 16 June.
Tuesday 4 May – Friday 29 October The Sense of Place exhibition is an installation of contemporary artworks by the tapestry weaver Jilly Edwards with musical accompaniment by Nigel Morgan.
Dartington’s bold plan to invest for the future garners comment and reaction in the local press, with articles in the Totnes Times, The Western Morning News and This is South Devon.
The Dartington Hall Trust announces the appointment of Dame Jo Williams as a trustee. Dame Jo Williams is currently Chair of the Prison Reform Trust, a Non-Executive Director of the Department of Communities and Local Government and the interim Chair of the Care Quality Commission. She also holds a number of other positions within the voluntary sector and in 2007 was awarded the D.B.E. for her work with people with a learning disability.
Hugh Nankivell has been appointed as Dartington’s first ‘Featured Composer’, one of a series of forthcoming artist residencies. Hugh will work on a number of new projects in 2010-11, including collaborative opera “Whaletone” and GeoQuest, a performance tour of Torbay’s UNESCO Geopark.
The latest news from RiP – including “What does work for troubled children, Trying to do more but with less, Research and Policy Update, Connecting the dots in Canada and Change Project Handbook inspires evidence informed practice in Sweden
The Abundant Life team at Dartington Hall has now concluded its series of seventeen public consultation sessions, held in Totnes at the end of last year and at Kingsbridge, Ivybridge and Newton Abbot in February this year.
It was a beautiful, sunny day at Dartington Hall for the visit of Her Majesty, the Queen, and His Royal Highness, the Duke of Edinburgh on Thursday, March 11, and the purple crocuses were in full bloom.
NEETs: Early identification – partners are urged to book their places on this conference. We have two new Partner agencies, Norfolk County Council and Wokingham Borough Council, and have just completed an evaluation of our work in Wales.
The officially unveiling of the new hydro-electric turbine at Lower Tweed Mill will take place at the Cider Press Centre at 9:30am on Wednesday, 10th March 2010.
The Dartington Hall Trust announces the appointment of John Woolrich as the new Artistic Director of its world-renowned international music festival, the Dartington International Summer School.
HOME, Dartington’s new one-day festival focusing on acoustic music, voices and song from around the world, will take place on Saturday 26 June. A celebration and exploration of different cultures and languages, at a time when we’re losing global cultural, biological and linguistic diversity, HOME features unplugged sets from a wide range of outstanding international artists. Read on for more info…
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The Dartington Hall Trust is a registered charity no. 279756. Company no. 1485560. Registered Office: The Elmhirst Centre, Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon TQ9 6EL United Kingdom. Telephone 01803 847000; Fax 01803 847007;