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Devon charities announced as partners for huge weekend of live music

Four Devon-based charities have been selected to be official partners for the county’s biggest music event this summer.

TK Maxx presents Live At Powderham runs for four nights from Thursday June 25 to Sunday June 28, featuring headline shows from vocal powerhouse Teddy Swims, seven-time GRAMMY winner Alanis Morissette and global superstar Lewis Capaldi.

Each night will see a local charity given the opportunity to have a team of fundraisers on site and for 2026 Live At Powderham will support Devon-based charities who make a big impact in the communities they serve....

Bare heads for charity

Authored by Sue Cade
Posted: Wed, 10/21/2015 - 6:45am

Nine brave souls had their heads shaved at the Volunteer Inn in Ottery St Mary, raising over £2,000 for charity CLIC Sargent.

Michelle Broadhurst, Roger Strike, Ed Winson, Jason Osborne, Andy Broadhurst, Carl Creek, Andy Russell, Mark Oke and Fran Lea all offered up their locks to hairdresser Sandi Scott and her team. The fundraising was supplemented by a raffle and cake sale.

CLIC Sargent is the UK's leading charity for children and young people with cancer, and is one of the main charity's supported by the Volunteer Inn.

Pictured is Roger Strike with his...

Millbrook Village sponsors Classics Galore!

Millbrook Village – Exeter’s first luxury retirement village – is sponsoring this year’s Classics Galore! concert in aid of FORCE Cancer Charity.

The show at the University of Exeter Great Hall on Saturday, November 14, features a programme of entertainment that features familiar and uplifting music performed by a 200- strong ensemble – a full orchestra, a brass band and two choral societies.

“Without the support of generous sponsorship, making fundraising events like ours possible, the amazing and valuable work of FORCE would not be available in support of so many people...

Sea wall sponsored walk a great success

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Mon, 10/19/2015 - 10:33am

The Devon and Cornwall Rail Partnership organised a successful sponsored walk on Saturday 10th October to celebrate the reopening of the sea wall for walkers and raise around £1,000 for good causes in Teignmouth and Dawlish.

Teignmouth and Dawlish Ramblers led the 40 walkers who included local councillors, Dawlish and Teignmouth Walk this Way, the Friends of Dawlish and Teignmouth Stations, Dawlish Solidarity for Refugees and a representative of Network Rail’s ‘Orange Army’.

The walkers were welcomed at the Strand Centre in Dawlish by MP Anne Marie Morris, Howard Almond,...

Pie & pint quiz night raises £790 for Exeter Foundation

Lloyd Barnes Accountancy Recruitment staged a Charity Quiz Night at Exeter Golf & Country Club, on 7th October, raising over £790 to their nominated charity, The Exeter Foundation.

This annual quiz night was attended by over 120 finance and accounting professionals from businesses across Devon including: Flybe, Coastal Recycling, EDF, Foot Anstey, Thrifty, Cobell and Maximus.

The overall winners were The Exeter (formerly known as Exeter Family Friendly), whose combined intellect pipped the other 20 teams to the post by only a few points to win a case of Veuve Clicquot...

Wi-Fi SPARK's 10 mile hike for charity

WiFi service delivery company, WiFi SPARK based in Exeter, has chosen Children’s Hospice South West as its charity of the year, and its latest fundraiser has seen members of the team hike the ten tors of Dartmoor.

Twelve members of the team from the Matford Business Park based company braved cold and foggy conditions to hike the ten miles across the ten tors of Dartmoor. Matt O’Donovan, WiFi SPARK’s founder said: ‘We’re so pleased to have raised over £1300 for this great cause and have many other activities planned to add to this sum. The WiFi SPARK team will continue its...

Thank You Exeter!

Authored by Hospiscare
Posted: Mon, 10/12/2015 - 5:00pm

Thank You Exeter! More than 100 local businesses, schools and organisation took part in our Bring a £1 Day.

You may have seen our fundraising team at Princesshay, wearing our new logo t-shirts and standing by our giant big pink collecting hat, kindly made by Brightsea Printers.

Lots of people said hello and donated a £1 and some local businesses came by to pop their staff collection into our Hospiscare hat. Children were intrigued to peer into the hat. Radio Exe and singer Jimmy Ireland joined us during the day to liven up the event.

Sarah Smith, our community...

Exeter Golf & Country Club president raises £1,400 for Macular Society

The 2015 Club President, Liz Turner has announced she has raised over £1400 for Macular Society on World Sight Day.

World Sight Day is an annual event on the second Thursday in October to raise awareness of blindness and vision impairment as major international public health issues.

The World Health Organization and the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness coordinate events and activities for World Sight Day. The purpose of World Sight Day is to raise awareness and influence governments to participate in and designate funds for national blindness prevention...

Masquerade Ball for Cystic Fibrosis

Finally the Christmas ball you have all been waiting for!

For a night full of mystery, music and masks, come and join the Masquerade Ball at the Livermead Cliff Hotel in Torquay, Devon, to help raise money for Cystic Fibrosis. The night will consist of a delicious festive 3-course meal, along with the band The Breaks performing live, a raffle, and a few surprises throughout the evening – oh, and did we mention there was a red carpet.

The ball is being held to raise money for Cystic fibrosis, an inherited disease that is caused by a faulty gene. This gene controls the...

Devon schools join fight against cancer

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Sun, 10/11/2015 - 10:31am

National Youth Against Cancer Week runs from the 12th – 18th October and encourages young people to join the fight against cancer in their age group by raising awareness and funds by holding their own events. Schools and colleges up and down the country are been encouraged to take part.

As a youth cancer charity, supporting teenagers and young adults with cancer throughout the UK and Ireland, The Laura Crane Youth Cancer Trust knows how important it is to raise cancer awareness among young people. The aim of Youth Against Cancer Week is to raise awareness of the early signs of...

Hotel donates TVs to Foundation charities

A popular Exeter hotel has donated television sets to a charity fundraising body, after undergoing a major refurbishment.

The Mercure Exeter Southgate underwent a £2.5m re-furbishment earlier this year. The hotel donated 20 television sets, which were previously in rooms, to the Exeter Foundation.

As a fundraising body, the Exeter Foundation offered the televisions to its member charities on a first come first served basis. The televisions were snapped up within 2 hours by a number of different charities.

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