Exeter hotel raises grand total for charity

The Magdalen Chapter in Exeter have this week announced a grand total of £1,500 raised for Farms For City Children this year. 2015 is the hotel's first year working with the charity and this figure will fund entirely for six children to experience a whole week on one of the Farms For City Children farms.

To celebrate the total, General Managers Fiona Moores and Louise Todd of The Magdalen Chapter invited the team in to raise a glass - christmas cocktail even! - to this wonderful figure.

Guests of The Magdalen Chapter have been generously donating since December last year, when the hotel joined forces. The hotel’s roaringly successful Sunday Lunch is just one of the ways guests have been pulling in the pounds. £1 from every Sunday Lunch served in the hotel restaurant is donated to the charity.

Farms For City Children was founded by children’s author Michael Morpurgo and his wife Claire in Devon in 1976. The charity offers urban children from all over the country a unique opportunity to live and work together for a week at a time on a real farm in the heart of the countryside. Today Farms For City Children operate three fully working farms, which welcome around 3,000 children and 400 teachers each year. 

For more information about The Magdalen Chapter, visit their website here.