Charities

On Sunday July 5th, a twenty-strong team of architects and urban designers from LHC’s Exeter and Plymouth studios will cycle across Devon to raise funds for one of the UK’s oldest charities, Devon based Hannahs.

The team will cycle an impressive 58 miles and climb 3750 feet of rolling Devon hills, raising money towards a new £11,000 all-terrain wheelchair that will get more kids and young adults at Hannahs off-the-beaten track and having more adventures, whatever their abilities.

The team from LHC, including six of the company Directors, will ride from the Exeter Design...

Big thanks to Debbie from Mad Cakes for launching our Big Devon Bake Off – she popped into our Exeter hospice with these amazing Lego cakes!

Our Hospiscare staff and volunteers enjoyed tucking into these cute little fellas raising £26, which is the first money in our Bake Off kitty.

Debbie also gave cakes to our friends and colleagues at the RD&E Bramble children’s ward; we’re based at Dryden Road, opposite the RD&E. Mad Cakes will be hosting a Hospiscare bake off for children later in the summer, keep an eye on our website for an update: www.hospiscare.co.uk...

Exeter Wheelers Cycling Club took part in a hill climb relay challenge up to the top of Stoke Woods to publicise their Hill Climb Festival to be held on 19th September.

Members of the club made 100 ascents of the Stoke Woods Hill (as seen in the Tour of Britain) in teams of three over the course of the day, the cyclists successfully climbed over 29,000ft, the equivalent of climbing Mt Everest to help publicise the clubs upcoming Hill Climb Festival.

Hill climbing is a long-running time trial tradition, which is well-represented in the South West with Minehead Cycling Club...

A record number of 100 wounded Heroes, collectively covering 18,500 miles, lead the largest major gathering of Afghanistan and Iraq veteran cyclists since the end of the Afghanistan conflict.

Many of the wounded are cycling from the South West and they will be backed by over 1,000 charity supporters cycling from all four points of the compass to raise vital funds for Help for Heroes.

Despite the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan coming to an end, a new Freedom of Information (FOI) act request to the Ministry of Defence from Help for Heroes has revealed that 32,036 Servicemen and...