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Taylor Wimpey Exeter raises over £5k for Hospiscare

Colleagues from Taylor Wimpey Exeter have raised £5,316.42 for Hospiscare, an independent charity providing specialist care to patients and their families living with life-limiting illnesses across Exeter, central and east Devon.

The funds were raised as part of Taylor Wimpey’s annual challenge, where a team of 15 from the housebuilder’s Exeter office completed a hike along the north Devon coastline, followed by a series of competitive, creative and strategic tasks.

Rob Baker, Managing Director for Taylor Wimpey Exeter, said: “The Taylor Wimpey Challenge is always a...

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Get on your bike for a great cause

Love to cycle? Looking for a challenge?

Well now’s your chance to enter Devon’s biggest cycling event and to raise money for a vital local cause at the same time.

The Dartmoor Classic is one of the South West’s most well-known cycling events, offering 34, 67 and 107 mile routes, and allows you to see spectacular Dartmoor scenery whilst taking on an exciting challenge. All 3,000 places for the event sold out on the first day they came on sale.

This year Exeter YMCA has 15 charity places for the event and some of them are still available. By getting sponsored for your...

May Make Over will raise funds for Dream-A-Way

Southernhay Clinic, John Lewis, Woodbury Hotel & Golf Club and Exeter College, along with, and in aid of, Princesshay’s 2014 chosen local charity; Dream-A-Way have come together to create a fantastic make over event taking place on Thursday 8 May.

Following on from the success of their Sizzling Summer Make-Over last year, this amazing May Make-Over is aimed at helping you look and feel the very best you can just in time for the summer and beyond!

Penny Albertella, Director of Southernhay Clinic said: “We have something for everyone and this Make-Over event looks set to...

Charity celebrates coming of age at Business Expo

The Devon Business Expo organised by TheBestOf Exeter and launching on Thursday 5 June at Matford Centre, announces its ‘charity of the year’ Dream-A-Way, celebrating its 21st anniversary, as the designated show charity. A charity raffle will be held to raise much needed monies for this local worthy cause at the after-show drinks reception sponsored by Business Network (SW).

The business exhibition sponsored by BasePoint Business Centres, supporting sponsor Glen King PR and Express & Echo as the official media partner, will have over 100 exhibitors showcasing their products and...

No Hair for Hospiscare!

Diana Virgin and friend Alex Waldron are off to the hairdressers, but instead of cut and blow dry they are both shaving off all of their hair!

On May 3rd at the Honiton Conservative Club the pair will be having their heads shaved in full view of the public from 7:30pm onwards.

Diana and Alex lost close friend Paul Kiddle to Cancer in February 2014.

Paul was a well known and popular member of the local community acting as Captain of Di and Alex’s Darts Team and secretary for Honiton & District Darts League. Paul was well known for his bald head and had...

Exeter School pupils' charity concert

For the 13th year running, Exeter School musicians and singers will be performing a special charity concert next week to raise funds for international charity WaterAid. The concert will take place on Wednesday 7 May, at St David's Church in Exeter, at 7.30 pm.

Proceeds from this concert will go directly to WaterAid's projects in Zambia, where the funds will help some of the country's poorest communities gain access to clean water and safe sanitation.

The school's Chamber and Symphony orchestras will perform Bizet’s popular Carmen Suite, and parts of Schubert’s String...

Charity Quiz to benefit two local charities

Local law firm, Gilbert Stephens LLP, is set to host another of its popular charity quizzes on Thursday 15 May at Kennaway House, Sidmouth, to raise funds for two local charities – Sidmouth Voluntary Services and FORCE Cancer Charity.

The event, organised by the law firm for the third consecutive year, starts at 7pm and hopes to attract over 70 people and raise hundreds of pounds on the night.

Held in Kennaway House’s Cellar Bar, a buffet will be included in the £30.00 team entry fee and the organisers are calling upon local people to get behind the fundraising event....

Land Securities select Mencap and ENABLE Scotland as official charity partner

Land Securities, joint owners of Princesshay together with The Crown Estate, has chosen learning disability charity Mencap and their sister charity ENABLE Scotland to be its official charity partner for 2014.

To launch the partnership, Princesshay will host Mencap’s launch event titled ‘Creative Spirit Galleries’ on Friday 25th April from 10am. A team of Mencap Young Ambassadors will host the event which will showcase a collection of artwork, music and poetry. Competitions and entertainment will feature throughout the day. This event will focus on promoting Mencap’s ‘Looking beyond...

Gourmet Dining in the Dark for WESC

At 6.30pm on Thursday 1 May, the Salutation Inn in Topsham, which offers the very best local, regional and seasonal produce cooked by Tom Williams-Hawkes and his brigade to a modern French influenced style, will be hosting a unique gourmet dining event in association with WESC Foundation.

Dining in the Dark - the first of its kind in the South West - will not only raise funds for the vital work being undertaken by WESC Foundation, a specialist centre for visual impairment, but will also give diners a real sense of what it is like to be visually impaired, if only for one evening....

Charity Hire Scheme Announces Exciting Developments

A not-for-profit initiative run by the charity Living Options Devon that covers the whole of the South West, including Devon, is excited to announce some exciting news this month.

Countryside Mobility South West has been shortlisted as a finalist in the Visit England Awards for Excellence 2014, alongside announcing four South West attractions as new partner sites.

The Countryside Mobility scheme is designed to help those with limited mobility access some of the South West’s most popular attractions through all-terrain mobility scooters.

The scheme currently has...

Friends swim their way to thousands of pounds for local charity

Two friends from Exeter have raised over £2,200 between them for local charity Hospiscare. Suzanne Lovelace and Sadie Evans, landlady at The Royal Oak, St Thomas set themselves the “Channel Challenge”; swimming the width of the channel within a two week window in February. The channel is 22 miles long, the equivalent of 1,408 lengths of a 25 meter pool. Suzanne, who is 70 in June said she would “do it all over again” upon completion of the challenge. She also added that next on her challenge bucket list is to complete a triathlon! Suzanne and Sadie met whilst swimming at the Riverside,...

Charities

Taylor Wimpey Exeter raises over £5k for Hospiscare

Get on your bike for a great cause

May Make Over will raise funds for Dream-A-Way

Charity celebrates coming of age at Business Expo

No Hair for Hospiscare!

Exeter School pupils' charity concert

Charity Quiz to benefit two local charities

Land Securities select Mencap and ENABLE Scotland as official charity partner

Gourmet Dining in the Dark for WESC

Charity Hire Scheme Announces Exciting Developments

Friends swim their way to thousands of pounds for local charity

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