Charities

A team from temporary power specialist ide Systems will be taking on the Royal Marines Commando Challenge in Devon on Saturday (October 8).

The challenge, which takes place in Yettington, Woodbury Common, is a six-mile endurance course that raises money for The Royal Marines Charity and the Devon Air Ambulance Trust. The Commando Challenge takes place each year and consists predominately of water-based tests of endurance, such as crawling through trenches and swimming through water-filled tunnels. The course itself is the same one completed by military personnel training to join...

On Friday 30th September, M&S Exeter will host an extra special coffee morning in celebration of Macmillan's World's Biggest Coffee Morning.

The stores are inviting shoppers and the local community to join them as M&S Exeter serves customers in the café in the hope of raising more funds than ever before for Macmillan.

This is the seventh year that M&S has supported World’s Biggest Coffee Morning and during this time the retailer has raised over £6 million for Macmillan. M&S and Macmillan are working together to fund more specialist Macmillan services in...

Dream-A-Way, the local Exeter based charity run entirely by a dedicated volunteer team, celebrated their 21st annual golf day at Woodbury Park recently, on a day which proved record breaking in many ways. They are hugely grateful for the massive generosity of supporters and sponsors, both locally and nationally and indebted to everyone who sponsored or played who were the backbone which ensured a truly memorable day. A full field of enthusiastic golfers, from many parts of the country, enjoyed this terrific day in the sunshine on the beautiful Oaks Championship Course. The management team...

An Exeter charity that works with blind and partially sighted people is to invest in exciting audiobooks thanks to a leading UK housebuilder.

The Royal National Institute of Blind People has received a £1,000 donation from Persimmon Homes South West’s Community Champions scheme, which sees up to £2,000 given away each month.

Nationally the housebuilder has given away almost £500,000 already this year.

Persimmon’s donation will go towards the RNIB’s Talking Books campaign, which has helped create a lifeline to the outside world for blind people for over 80 years....