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The Microbiome Garden, RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2024

Devon trio unites to create an innovative health garden at Chelsea Flower Show

Three leading local companies have joined forces in a high-profile charitable project aimed at rewilding the environment, promoting healthy eating and raising awareness of bowel disease.

The project has been commissioned by Bowel Research UK with the aim of constructing a ‘Microbiome Garden’ that reflects a healthy gut. It has been funded by Project Giving Back and designed by top garden designers, Chris Hull and Sid Hill.

The state-of-the-art garden is being constructed by Atlantes Landscapes in Exeter, transported to the prestigious RHS Chelsea Flower Show and returned...

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Last chance to enter Exeter Race for Life

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Thu, 07/19/2018 - 12:14pm

WOMEN in Exeter are being urged to pull on their trainers and enter Cancer Research UK’s Exeter bumper weekend as there are only a few days left until registration closes.

Over 4,000 women have already signed up to take part in Exeter Pretty Muddy on Saturday 21st July or Exeter 5k & 10k on Sunday 22nd July at Westpoint Arena but there are some places still available.

For the first time ever, Pretty Muddy Kids will be taking place before the adults event on Saturday 21st July. Pretty Muddy Kids is a new exciting obstacle course designed just for children - with added...

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Rainbow Living welcomes four new directors

Authored by JanetRaeburn
Posted: Thu, 07/19/2018 - 11:25am

Local charity Rainbow Living is delighted to announce the appointment of four new Directors to their Board.

Dave Hopton, Clive Hughes, Tracey Rockey and Paul Winfield join Rainbow Living at an exciting time, as the charity embarks on its latest project, a fourth Rainbow House in Exeter.

Rainbow Living is a small, but growing, volunteer-run charity, which has enjoyed success with its unique housing model, which enables adults with learning and other disability to live with their peers in specially adapted accommodation, designed to promote and encourage independent supported...

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Exeter businesswoman takes on the English Channel to raise money for Age UK Exeter

Many people would baulk at the thought of diving into water at 14°C, but not businesswoman, Rachael Whitson, managing director of Exeter based communications agency, Absolute PR & Marketing. Rachael will be taking on the English Channel this August as part of a relay swim team to raise funds for Age UK Exeter.

Always on the search for her next charity challenge, Rachael completed the Dart 10K swim last September, and is keen to defy her boundaries by taking part in an even bigger fundraising feat this summer. Rachael will be swimming in a relay as part of team H2 Oh! from Dover...

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One Voice Media team walks Templer Way raising over £2,500 for charity

On Saturday 23rd June, nine of the One Voice Media team walked the 18-mile Templer Way to raise funds for The Daisy Garland, a charity based in Totnes which operates across the UK and supports families living with drug-resistant epilepsy.

The charity is close to the hearts of the Exeter-based PR and marketing consultancy as Sharon, a member of the team, has a four-year-old daughter with a rare form of drug-resistant epilepsy.

The charity enables families to access the ketogenic diet, a treatment option for children with drug resistant epilepsy based on a very strict, high...

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Hospiscare supporters take to the skies to boost funds

Authored by Hospiscare
Posted: Wed, 07/11/2018 - 10:34am

Hospiscare supporters will be taking to the skies above East Devon on Saturday 18 August for a morning of skydives at Dunkeswell Airfield to raise funds for the charity, which supports adults with terminal illnesses in Exeter, Mid and East Devon.

The skydivers will be in the capable and experienced hands of Skydive Buzz for what promises to be an adrenaline-filled and exhilarating experience. Hospiscare volunteer and first-time skydiver, Shirley Botfield from Exeter, will be jumping in memory of her late husband Keith, who died of mesothelioma at the Exeter hospice, Searle House,...

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Adoption Support Service wins 2018 Charity Governance Award

Authored by Claire Small
Posted: Tue, 07/10/2018 - 10:51am

Families for Children are delighted to announce that we have been awarded of one of the prestigious Charity Governance Awards for 2018.

Families for Children were chosen from over 20 charities from across the UK each nominated to receive one of seven awards and a £5,000 unrestricted grant. All the shortlisted charities represented a diverse range of activities that include mental health care, family support, overseas aid, community sports programmes and post-natal care.

The winners were announced at a reception at London’s historic Clothworkers’ Hall on Thursday 24th May...

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Freemasons Dream-A-Way £25,000

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Tue, 07/10/2018 - 8:13am

At the Community Awards Presentation which took place last September at Mount Edgecumbe Masonic Hall Plymouth, Ian Kingsbury the Provincial Grand Master of Devonshire Freemasons presented Dream-A-Way with a cheque for £25,000.

As a result of this splendid donation they invited us down to the Haven Holiday Park at Sandy Bay Exmouth recently to take part in the opening ceremony of a magnificent new caravan which will be used for the respite care of families in need.

Dream-A-Way is a small local charity which over the last few years have raised thousands of pounds to help make...

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Devonshire Freemasons support Lifelites chief executive in 2,500-mile fundraiser

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Mon, 07/09/2018 - 11:04am

The Provincial Grand Master Rt.W. Bro. Ian Kingsbury JP. and Provincial Grand Charity Steward W. Bro. Dr. Reuben Ayres have joined Freemasons across England and Wales to help chief executive of the charity Lifelites – Simone Enefer-Doy – with her quest to visit a famous landmark in nearly every County in England & Wales in an incredible journey lasting just 14 days in what is probably the wackiest relay ever.

For each leg of the journey Simone will be transported by Freemasons in a variety of weird and wonderful vehicles to raise awareness of and funds for the charity. In...

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The British Heart Foundation challenges Exeter to get crafty

The British Heart Foundation (BHF) is calling on all crafty shoppers from Exeter to help beat heart disease by taking part in The Big Stitch campaign.

Style seekers can help raise vital funds for life saving heart research, by buying an item from the Exeter Home & Fashion BHF shop and adding their own personal stamp to it. The best will be in with a chance of winning one of three fantastic prizes. The Exeter Home & Fashion BHF shop, based at 160 Sidwell Street is one of 530 BHF clothing and accessory shops across the UK. BHF shops are full of amazing finds that can easily...

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The Song Cyclists: Singing for better mental health

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Wed, 07/04/2018 - 11:13pm

The Song Cyclists, a group of five singers taking on an unprecedented challenge as they cycle from John O’Groats to Land’s End giving a concert every evening along the way to raise £20,000 for the UK’s largest mental health charity Mind.

They will be singing at The Old Firehouse at 8pm on Thursday 19th July, performing a mixture of pop, folk and a cappella; entry is free with a retiring collection.

Every year, one in four of us will experience a mental health problem and, shockingly, suicide is still the biggest killer of British men under 49.

Mind combats this...

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