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From homelessness to hospitality: Café EX4, Exeter’s new lifeline

Five years ago, Dan was homeless, living in supported accommodation, and struggling with addiction and mental health challenges.

This month — the same week The Salvation Army in Exeter Temple celebrates its 145th anniversary — Dan stood alongside Majors Carl and Elizabeth Di-Palma who lead the church and charity in Exeter, to watch celebrity chef Michael Caines (MBE DL), cut the ribbon on Café EX4, a community café run by people with lived experience of homelessness, addiction, and neurodiversity.

Café EX4 operates under a licence agreement, making the café a tenant of...

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RSPCA in action as storms batter Britain

Fifty of the RSPCA’s specially trained rescue teams have been out rescuing animals affected by the storms across England.

The RSPCA has received around 150 calls for its help specifically for flood related incidents. From the 29th December 2013 to the 2nd January 2014, the RSPCA has been called to 149 incidents and assisted in the rescue of over 130 animals.

These figures are expected to rise over the weekend, as more severe weather looks set to batter Britain. With around 300 RSPCA inspectors, and only 45 specially trained water rescue specialists, the charity is braced...

Make a Resolution to change a life

With Christmas over and 1st January fast approaching, many of you may be thinking about your New Year's resolutions.

Perhaps you would like to cut down on the fast food, or maybe even cut your spending.

Or perhaps you would like to make a resolution that will not only help others but will also give you that ulitmate feel good factor.

Farm Africa, a charity that works with farmers in Africa to help them produce food, has some great resolution suggestions that will benefit those in need.

Your New Year's resolution could be something as simple as hosting a...

thebestofExeter announces 2014 charity

ThebestofExeter which specialises in promoting Exeter’s local businesses via its website, digital marketing and business network events has announced that its charity of the year for 2014 will be Dream-A-Way, the Exeter based charity which provides holidays and days out for people with disabilities and their families.

Dream-A-Way has been associated with thebestofExeter for many years and its volunteers enjoy belonging to this excellent organisation which does so much to support local charities as well as businesses.

To be chosen as their Charity of the Year for 2014 really...

Exeter Chamber helps raise hundreds for local charities

Exeter Chamber of Commerce helped eight local charities raise over £900 at their Christmas Charity Auction Lunch last week, held at the Mercure Exeter Southgate Hotel.

Paul Nero, chief executive of Radio Exe was the auctioneer on the day, taking bids from over 100 business people that were in attendance. Items for auction included an Exeter Chiefs Rugby weekend experience for two, in aid of St Loyes Foundation, and a beautiful framed print of the cover photo of the BBC Radio Devon Countryside Calendar from Devon Community Foundation.

Also up for auction, courtesy of...

RSPCA set for busy Christmas

The RSPCA is braced for a busy festive period after dealing with a bumper number of calls about cruelty over Christmas last year (2012).

Last year staff answered 833 calls about neglect and cruelty on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day – 53 per cent more than the same period in 2011.

Calls to help collect injured and abandoned animals were also up by about a third (32%) from 584 in 2011 to 769 last year.

Chief Inspector Dermot Murphy said: “We are ready for a busy time. Last year the number of calls about animals which needed our help was significantly...

Professionals raise money for Deaf Academy

Local Wealth Management Company Brewin Dolphin Exeter hands over a cheque for £2,500 to its first ever Charity of the Year, Exeter Royal Academy for Deaf Education. The funds raised through a series of events over the last 12 months are being earmarked for new outdoor play equipment for primary-age students when the charity moves to its new Exeter site.

Exeter Deaf Academy is building an inspiring new Academy, designed with and for Deaf children with capacity to take up to 180 students in its pre-school, primary school, secondary school and college. It has full planning...

Exeter School raises over £4,700 for charity in one month

On Thursday 12 December, Exeter School’s Sixth Form girls played a charity football match to raise money for the school’s charities with the Lower Sixth beating the Upper Sixth 2-0. Since mid-November, pupils, parents and teachers have raised an astonishing £4,700 through cake sales, mufti days, Movember and collections at the schools’ Advent service and carol concert. Every year, Exeter School pupils from both the Junior and Senior school help select a number of local and internationalcharities for whom they raise funds and awareness. This year’s charities are Children In Need, Shelterbox...

EMCAS raises over £6,300 for charity

Exeter-based EMCAS, one of the country's leading financial Claims Management Companies, has marked a year of achievement and fundraising with the presentation of cheques totalling £6,300 to South West Children’s Hospice, Help for Heroes, and Grief Encounter. The cheques were presented at EMCAS’ annual Staff Awards.

In addition to celebrating its fundraising work, the Awards acknowledged individuals and their teams for their determination to help customers recover many thousands of pounds for mis-sold financial products. To date EMCAS’ has helped over 530,000 customers reclaim...

Shelter: over 2000 homeless children

2,082 children in the South West are homeless and living in temporary accommodation, according to the latest government figures.

The new statistics recorded at the end of September mean that, across Britain, nearly 85,000 children now face the reality of waking up homeless this Christmas morning. Shelter is warning that as the rising cost of living and cuts to the housing safety net continue to take their toll, many more parents are likely to find themselves facing an ongoing struggle to keep a roof over their children’s heads.

The charity has launched an emergency...

Gilbert Stephens staff don their festive woollies for Save the Children

Noel Edmunds and Val Doonican step aside, because the staff of Gilbert Stephens LLP Solicitors have been getting into the festive spirit and donning a veritable feast for the eyes in Christmas jumpers along with thousands of others raising money for Save the Children on Friday 13 December.

Staff have been arriving at work with a smile on their face and a suitably jovial woolly on their backs – from ruddy-nosed Rudolph to sequin-bedecked Santa – for the minimum fundraising cost of £1, but hopefully much more. The team are hoping to raise hundreds of pounds for children in some of...

Charities

From homelessness to hospitality: Café EX4, Exeter’s new lifeline

RSPCA in action as storms batter Britain

Make a Resolution to change a life

thebestofExeter announces 2014 charity

Exeter Chamber helps raise hundreds for local charities

RSPCA set for busy Christmas

Professionals raise money for Deaf Academy

Exeter School raises over £4,700 for charity in one month

EMCAS raises over £6,300 for charity

Shelter: over 2000 homeless children

Gilbert Stephens staff don their festive woollies for Save the Children

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