Charities

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...

Devon intellects raise £600 for charity

Authored by iomarketing
Posted: Wed, 10/09/2013 - 4:12pm

Lloyd Barnes Accountancy Recruitment staged a Charity Quiz Night last week at Exeter Golf & Country Club, raising a substantial amount for Devon Community Foundation.

The quiz night, attended by over 100 professionals from businesses across Devon including Flybe, Thrifty, EDF, Foot Anstey, Stephens & Scown, Cobell and Maximus, tested everyone’s minds to the max. With questions such as ‘How many UK number 1 hits did Elvis Presley have?’ and ‘What was the name of the first space shuttle?’, how do you think you would have fared?

The overall winner was Connect Six, a...

The Bike Shed Theatre appeals for donations

The Bike Shed Theatre offers the people of Exeter a whole host of brilliant plays and productions, and this Christmas looks set to continue that legacy.

From December audiences will be able to come and watch a fantastic new Christmas play, Eliza and The Wild Swans. Eliza and The Wild Swans is a tale of family, love and redemption in a bold adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s classic tale Wild Swans . It is being created in collaboration with the acclaimed Wardrobe Ensemble, which uses physical theatre, live music and inventive stagecraft to make theatre which explores,...

Dare to bare... have you got what it takes to walk over hot coals for Exeter's WESC Foundation?

Have you got a burning desire to face a new challenge and raise a scorching amount of money in the process? Then join other fearless fundraisers at Exeter’s Double Locks pub on 1 November and take part in a Fire Walk in aid of WESC Foundation - The Specialist Centre for Visual Impairment.

Organised in association with UK Firewalk, the event will raise funds through sponsorship for the charity, which provides specialist education and care to blind and partially sighted children and young people. You can enter either individually or as a team, and all participants will be mentored...

New route for the Great West Run

Authored by Huw Oxburgh
Posted: Wed, 10/09/2013 - 11:01am

This Sunday (13 October) sees the return of Exeter’s Great West Run.

Roads to be closed for the event: • Northernhay Place • Bailey Street • Sidwell Street • Exeter High Street • South Street • Western Way (one Eastbound Lane) • Frog Street • A377/Exe Bridges (one Northbound Lane) • Okehampton Street • Okehampton Road • Exwick Road • St Andrews Road • Crediton Road • Stoke Road • Cowley Bridge Road • New North Road • Streatham Drive • Prince of Wales Road • Pennsylvania Road (crossing point at Prince of Wales Rd & Union Rd) • Union Road • Mount Pleasant Rd • Pinhoe Road •...

Exeter accountants cover 115 miles in charity relay ride

Keen cyclists from chartered accountants Francis Clark took to their bikes to raise money for charity by riding a relay across Devon and Cornwall.

Three teams made up of staff from the Exeter, Plymouth, Taunton, Torquay and Truro offices of the South West leading accountancy firm Francis Clark completed a gruelling relay cycling from Truro to Exeter to raise a total of £1,475 for four different charities.

The annual Inter-oOffice relay started from the Truro office where employees Darren Jasper, Adam Keogh, Richard Wadman, Nick Tippett and James West boarded bikes to cycle...

Oxjam Exeter Announces Sponsors

Oxjam Exeter is pleased to announce support from the following sponsors for the Oxjam Exeter Takeover weekend, taking place across Exeter on 19th and 20th October:

Headline Sponsor: The Exeter Daily

Venue Sponsors:

The Cavern - ATASS Respect

The Oddfellows - Purity Boutique Spa

The Phoenix - The Music Mill

The Guildhall Shopping Centre - Gravitas Recruitment

Princesshay - Radio Exe

The Revelry / Cellar Door - Midnight Ramble

The Globe Inn - Exeter Local Records

Oxjam Exeter Takeover is a wristband event,...

Bankers row, ride and rummage for Hospiscare

Authored by Hospiscare
Posted: Fri, 10/04/2013 - 11:42am

Fourteen bankers spent a day lending a helping hand at Hospiscare’s Enterprise Centre (HEC) recently, before bouncing, wheeling and paddling down Exeter Quay to raise money for the local charity.

The team from RBS swapped spreadsheets and suits for Ebay and second-hand clothing to spend a day alongside staff and volunteers at the HEC, processing the donations and house clearance items which are brought to the Trusham Road site every day.

The team then got together just a few days later to take part in a marathon challenge along Exeter Quay, coming up with a whole host of...

Emergency courier charity opens doors to public

Authored by Sue Cade
Posted: Tue, 10/01/2013 - 1:28pm

A Devon charity hosted an inaugural open day event on Saturday 28 September at its headquarters in Honiton, giving visitors an opportunity to learn more about its life-saving work.

Devon Freewheelers, which provides an emergency out-of-hours courier service, invited locals to meet the volunteer bikers and take a look at the motorbikes that are central to the charity’s efforts.

The service, which transports vital supplies including blood, tissues, organs and breast milk to NHS hospitals across the county at no cost to the NHS, was set up by Daniel Lavery after his wife and...

Go-Kart Party, Go Fundraising in Princesshay

Go-Kart Party has raised over £750 for the WESC Foundation with its inflatable boundary track located in Princesshay Square throughout the summer, as part of the continued charity partnership between WESC Foundation and Princesshay.

Go-Kart Party kindly donated 10% of all takings throughout their summer to the WESC Foundation, together with additional money from the onsite raffle to win an All-Terrain Kart™.

The pay per ride electric Go-Karts in Princesshay Square ran on an 11 by 16 metre track specifically designed for 4 to10 year olds and, powered by gel filled batteries...

Brand new dance studio launches in Exeter with 5-hour danceathon

DanSci Dance Studio participants are all set to dance for five hours to help children survive their first five years. To celebrate the launch of Exeter’s first independent professional dance studio on 13 October 2013, DanSci Dance Studio in Guinea Street will be holding a five-hour Ultimate Danceathon event to raise money for Save the Children. Dancers in the local area are invited to come along, get their dancing shoes on and donate what they can to help children around the world survive their vulnerable first five years. Event organiser Ava Barron Thomas, Director of DanSci Dance Studio...

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