Charities

The garden at Pine Lodge in Tiverton has come a long way since Hospiscare opened the Day Care Unit based on Post Hill in 2011.

What was little more than a dumping ground just over a year ago is almost unrecognisable today.

A team of volunteers have worked tirelessly to take the garden in hand and transform the green space ready for an open garden event being held on 8 June.

The garden had been an overrun mass of trees, bushes and rabbits, but has since become a haven for patients at the unit, which is now beginning to burst with spring colour.

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Staff at the Nuffield Health Exeter Hospital have raised £150 to support research into Multiple Sclerosis.

Staff from across the hospital baked cakes, which were then sold in the reception area.

Claire Luxton, a Medical Secretary at the Nuffield Health Exeter Hospital helped to organise the event.

She said: “Everyone was very supportive and helpful – lots of people baked cakes and even more were happy to buy them! We are really pleased to be able to send £150 to the MS Society who do excellent work.”

Paul Taylor, Hospital Director at the Exeter Nuffield said...

Angie Lunn, from Exeter, talks about her experience volunteering for WESC Foundation and why she wishes she had done it years ago.

What led you to volunteer for WESC Foundation?

I had been toying with the idea of volunteering for about four years before I took action to make it happen.

I was talking to a friend about her son who has attended WESC Foundation for the past ten years and met him on a sponsored walk and had such a lovely time in his company that I decided to enquire whether I could use some of my spare time and skills to help at WESC.

I was...

Exeter City Football Club has announced that fan Nick Saunders has been elected to the board of national charity Level Playing Field (LPF) as an executive trustee. The announcement was made at the charity’s AGM last month, which took place at the House of Lords. Nick has been a Grecian for 27 years, joining the Supporters’ Trust a decade ago and he took on the voluntary role as the club’s Disability Liaison Officer. He also established the Exeter City Disabled Supporters’ Association (ECDSA) in 2007 – at the time, the only such organisation in the Conference. In 2011 he established the...