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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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Vote for Hospiscare to win charity fund

Hospiscare is thrilled to have been nominated as one of the three charities to gain from Chelsea Building Society’s ‘Charity Choice’ Scheme. Members of Chelsea Building Society and the general public are able to visit the South Street, Exeter branch, until 8 November to vote for their favourite local charity to receive the Charitable Foundation’s support.

The charity which receives the most votes will receive a donation of £500, the second £300 and the third £200.

Mike Tate, Manager of Chelsea Building Society in Exeter explained, ‘The charities benefitting are all...

The Big night out: An evening with Shane Richie to help Kibera

This month has the opportunity to make a difference with a special fundraising dinner supporting life-saving work in Kibera, the biggest slum in Africa.

The evening will see live music, magic and comedy as well as an auction with a chance to win holiday accommodation in Italy and Spain.

The event will be headlined by Shane Richie and The Prelude. One of the country's premier funk bands fronted by the actor and comedian Shane Richie.

Kibera houses nearly 1m people living in extreme poverty and dangerous, unhygienic conditions. One in five children living there will...

University's ‘Haunted Halloween Hobble’ to raise money for Hospiscare

The University of Exeter Students’ Guild and local charity Hospiscare are calling for adventurous families to join them for their ‘Haunted Halloween Hobble’ on the evening of Halloween, this Thursday 31 October.

The University’s team of student volunteers will be dressing up to create a spooky walk around the Streatham Campus. The event offers a family friendly alternative to trick or treating and is set to be an enjoyable spooky occasion. There will be lots of activities to get involved with including apple bobbing and a fancy dress parade with prizes for the best outfit.

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Construction staff in the pink for cancer charity

Construction staff from David Wilson Homes in Exeter swapped their regular hi-vis gear for pink jackets and hats as part of a fundraising effort for the Breast Cancer Campaign.

The construction team put their weight behind the Wear It Pink Day and the housebuilder has pledged to continue fundraising for vital and lifesaving research.

Sales director Lee Monk said: “Our Wear It Pink Day was a huge success on site and in our head office and we are thrilled and proud to have been able to support the Breast Cancer Campaign. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed becoming pink heroes for...

Help for those renting poor housing

Renting a home can be bad for your health, according to ExeTRA (Exeter Private Tenants Resource Association), a new Exeter CVS project funded by the E-on Energy Legacy fund, which offers a voice to tenants suffering poor housing conditions, excessive rent and energy bills.

And with winter approaching, this support couldn’t come at a more important time.

Project worker Eve Malster explains: “Exeter is one of the most unaffordable places to live in the UK! Demand for rented homes exceeds supply, pushing rents sky high. Tenants are so worried about the pressure of losing a...

Potentially life saving message in a bottle scheme

South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust has joined forces with the Lions Club to run a “Message in a Bottle” scheme Message in a Bottle is a simple idea designed to encourage people living on their own to keep basic personal and medical details somewhere it can be found quickly in an emergency. The scheme gets paramedics and other healthcare professionals to check your fridge for relevant medical information such as allergies and medication taken. The bottles are free and members of the public can get them from local health centres, doctors’ surgeries or chemists. Ambulance...

Hopping 'Mud' for Charity

A group of Exeter girls took part in the Commando Challenge earlier this month to raise money for a charity that is hugely important to the region. Kate Furnifer, Senior Account Manager at Chalk & Ward Advertising in Exeter, Lauren Dryden, Oda Sonju, Kate Holloway and Becky Herniman took on cross country running, mud and the notorious ‘sheep dip’ in the 10k challenge to raise money for The Royal Marines Charitable Trust Foundation and The Devon Air Ambulance. Kate said “The Royal Marines Trust is very significant to all of us, many of us have friends and family members that serve and...

Buble act returns to Tiverton for Hospiscare night

A popular Michael Buble tribute act will get Tiverton into the Christmas swing when it returns in November to help raise money for Hospiscare.

Singer Jamie Somers wowed the Tiverton audience earlier this year when he performed the Canadian crooner’s hits at Heathcoat Hall.

With requests flooding in for a repeat performance Jamie jumped at the chance to leave Tiverton ‘feeling good’ once more with his Christmas Special on Friday, November 29.

Event organiser Ian Thomas said: “Jamie was so popular on his last visit here. His interaction with the audience made him...

Charity says thank you to Exeter’s fund-raising coffee shop

A woman from Woodbury near Exeter who lost her husband to a brain tumour one year ago has visited local coffee shop Coffee#1 in Princesshay Shopping Centre, Exeter, to say a big thank you to staff who are currently helping raise funds for Hammer Out, the South West’s only brain tumour charity, through the sale of charity gingerbread men.

From August 4 to November 2, each time a Gingerbread man is sold for £1 in Exeter’s Coffee#1 shop or any of the award-winning coffee chain’s 34 other shops in the South West and South Wales, a 50p donation will be made to Hammer Out, which supports...

Every Vote Counts for ELF!

Exeter Leukaemia Fund is delighted to have been nominated as one of the three charities to gain from Chelsea Building Society’s ‘Charity Choice’ Scheme. Members of Chelsea Building Society and the general public are being encouraged to pop into the South Street, Exeter branch, between 25th October and 8th November to vote for charities to receive their Charitable Foundation’s support. The amount donated to each charity will be calculated after the voting period; the charity with the most votes will receive a donation of £500, the second most popular £300 and third £200. Mike Tate, Manager...

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

Vote for Hospiscare to win charity fund

The Big night out: An evening with Shane Richie to help Kibera

University's ‘Haunted Halloween Hobble’ to raise money for Hospiscare

Construction staff in the pink for cancer charity

Help for those renting poor housing

Potentially life saving message in a bottle scheme

Hopping 'Mud' for Charity

Buble act returns to Tiverton for Hospiscare night

Charity says thank you to Exeter’s fund-raising coffee shop

Every Vote Counts for ELF!

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