Charities

A group of 21 police officers will be cycling from Exeter to London in aid of a local cancer charity this weekend.

The men will start their challenge from police headquarters in Exeter at 4am on Sunday 15 September and should reach their destination by tea time.

The 170-mile ride, which has been organised by PC Dean Drury and PC Chris Rennie, is expected to take around 12 hours with a few stops on the way.

The police officers, based all around Devon and Cornwall, aim to raise over £500 for the FORCE Cancer Charity in Exeter.

Many of the officers cycle to...

The government has lent its support to encourage people to leave money to charity in their wills.

As part of this week’s Remember A Charity in your Will campaign the Minister for Civil Society Nick Hurd will call on UK solicitors to raise the topic with clients.

The joint letter from the minister and Remember A Charity will accompany a nationwide poster campaign and social media campaign to raise public awareness.

Already supporting the campaign are the Co-operative Legal Services which will be promoting charitable bequests to customers in the process of writing...

More than £500.00 was recently raised for Home-Start, the Exeter-based national family support charity, at a Ritz styled tea party held at Badgers-Silverton, organised by members of The Rotary Club of Exeter Enterprise. The Scottish dancers troup performed superbly to the delight of the assembled guests and of course the weather was also great.

Club members would also like to thank everyone who gave up their time to support and attend this event, especially Nigel and Claire Harvey for the loan of their beautiful garden and their generous hospitality.

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Sir Terry Wogan, Matt Baker, Gary Barlow, Nick Grimshaw, Alex Jones, JLS and Union J have joined forces to kick start this year’s BBC Children in Need campaign.

They are calling on the Great British public to once again get fundraising to help raise millions for disadvantaged children and young people right here in the UK.

There are a number of fun ways people can get fundraising for the charity as demonstrated by Pudsey’s celebrity pals. Union J and Alex Jones are leading the fundraising charge by asking people to ditch their usual 9 to 5 work clothes and wear their PJs...