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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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The Southgate Hotel has chosen Hospiscare as their Charity of the Year

We are delighted to announce that The Mercure Exeter Southgate Hotel has adopted Hospiscare as their Charity of the Year for 2013.

Hospiscare is a local charity providing an all-encompassing service for people with a terminal diagnosis. All of their services are provided free of charge with the support of the local community.

Employees of the Southgate Hotel have already been very busy the past few weeks fundraising for Hospiscare by organising a Pink Pig Racing event and taking part in the Starlight Walk in Exmouth on 11 May.

On the announcement of the chosen...

Nick becomes Level Playing Field trustee

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...

Exeter charity launches volunteer drive during Volunteers' Week

Volunteers’ Week is an annual campaign and this year it takes place between 1-7 June. Its aim is to celebrate the fantastic contribution millions of volunteers make each year across the UK and in 2013, the focus is on saying "Thank You".

In Devon, it is estimated around 300,000 people volunteer, joining around 20 million others across the UK who volunteer every year. It is thought that this equates to more than 100 million hours given to communities every week and it has been estimated that the economic value is worth in excess of £40 billion to the UK economy.

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Celebrity Chefs help Lesley to raise cash for Hospiscare

An apron featuring the signatures of 14 celebrity chefs will be raffled at Darts Farm on 15 June to raise money for a local charity.

Plucky Lesley Weeks from Exmouth contacted the world-famous chefs, including Jamie Oliver, Gordon Ramsay, Paul Hollywood and Heston Blumenthal, in September last year after she signed up to complete a 450k cycle challenge across Vietnam and Cambodia.

This will be the fourth fundraising adventure Lesley, resident hairdresser at Hospiscare, has embarked upon since 2007, raising more than £23,000 for the charity she has worked for over the last...

Sand Dam success!

A project to help unite a mission community has raised nearly £3,000 for the diocese Sand Dam Lent Appeal. This now takes the total to £8,874.

“I’m absolutely thrilled!” said the Revd Chas Deacon, Diocesan Companion Links Mission Officer. “This will help us to make a good start towards assisting water security in the Thika Diocese in Kenya. There’s a lot to be done!”

The Five Alive Mission Community was the first mission community to be created in the Exeter and undertook the fundraising project to promote unity. Simultaneously they also followed a Lent course called, ‘...

Exeter solicitors PLOD for Action: it’s no walk in the park!

Six teams from Stephens Scown solicitors in Exeter will, on Friday 7 June, take on the Cotswold Way PLOD for children’s charity Action Medical Research.

The walking challenge is no walk in the park, covering 40 miles through the night.

The Action PLOD walking challenges are long and strenuous, requiring team work, stamina, coordination and willpower. Money raised will go to help the charity fund vital research for sick babies and children.

Phil Gregory, Partner at Stephens Scown LLP says: “Being an adventurous bunch at Stephens Scown, we are always looking for new...

Exeter technology inventor to speak at conference

Andrew Stamp, the CEO of Exeter-based company Brain-In-Hand, will be one of the keynote speakers at The Autism Show later this month.

Mr Stamp will discuss 'the human side of assistive technology' at the prestigious event at ExCel in London. The Autism Show is a national event for autism dedicated to parents, carers and professionals.

Brain-in-Hand Ltd, which is located at Exeter University's Innovation Centre, has developed a personal technology system to assist people with Asperger’s Syndrome, high-functioning autism, acquired brain injury and a number of other conditions...

Swap and support SAFE

Exeter women now have the perfect chance to get a new wardrobe without spending a fortune. For £5, you can turn up at Exeter Phoenix on 14 June from 5.30pm, and for every item you bring, you can exchange it for something new. Plus if you run out of clothes to swap, you can take home any other item in return for a donation to SAFE - the only charity in the area that specialises in the support and protection of women, men, children and young people affected by domestic violence.

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In the last 10 years the Refuge in Exeter has offered safe accommodation to 916 women...

Mole Avon & Crediton Milling raise money for Hospiscare

To help celebrate Mole Avon Trading Limited’s 40th anniversary and their Ruby Appeal for Hospiscare, the company teamed up with Crediton Milling and together have raised £1,241 for the local charity.

During a four week period at Mole Avon’s retail branches in Axminster, Crediton and Okehampton for every bag of Layers Mash or Layers Pellets sold 50p would be donated to Hospiscare.

Crediton Milling, based at Fordton, Crediton is one of the few remaining family owned and run independent feed mills in the Westcountry and the have been supplying animal compound feed to Mole Avon...

Cooking courses with a difference at Hospiscare

Charity-run cookery classes which have helped novices in Devon to fend for themselves in the kitchen, will be running again this June.

The Hospiscare Catering Team at Dryden Road Exeter began the series of courses in September last year and have taught people, many who have never had to cook for themselves, basic culinary skills.

The courses are for anyone who has found themselves alone following a bereavement or are looking after a poorly partner and doesn’t have the first idea how to prepare and cook a basic meal.

80-year-old Eric Smith from Honiton completed the...

Charities

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

The Southgate Hotel has chosen Hospiscare as their Charity of the Year

Nick becomes Level Playing Field trustee

Exeter charity launches volunteer drive during Volunteers' Week

Celebrity Chefs help Lesley to raise cash for Hospiscare

Sand Dam success!

Exeter solicitors PLOD for Action: it’s no walk in the park!

Exeter technology inventor to speak at conference

Swap and support SAFE

Mole Avon & Crediton Milling raise money for Hospiscare

Cooking courses with a difference at Hospiscare

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