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Cllr Duncan Wood joined members of Exeter's WI in the City for a rugby session with Exeter City Comm

Pitch perfect: Football meets rugby in Exeter’s Strive ‘25 takeover

Exeter City Community Trust, the charitable arm of Exeter City Football Club, is stepping into a new sport as it joins a major national initiative to grow women’s rugby in the city ahead of the Women’s Rugby World Cup 2025.

The organisation, which is more used to the beautiful game than the oval ball, is joining with Exeter Chiefs and Exeter City Council as the delivery partner for the Strive ‘25 Rugby Challenge, a national programme aimed at engaging 25,000 women and girls in rugby across host cities. Exeter is one of only eight UK cities which are hosting the Women’s Rugby World...

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Old Mill Fund reaches £50,000 milestone

The Old Mill Fund – the home of financial experts Old Mill’s charitable giving – has reached the impressive milestone of awarding £50,000 in grants to grassroots good causes across Somerset, Devon and Wiltshire since the Fund was first launched just over three years ago.

Old Mill has a strong history of giving back to the community, and in 2019, made a long-term commitment to support local charities by partnering with grant-making charity Somerset Community Foundation (SCF) to create the Old Mill Fund.

In the past three years the Old Mill Fund has made more than 40...

Free mental health and wellbeing courses and peer support groups for people across Devon

Devon-based mental health charity, Step One, has announced the launch of its spring programme of free mental health and wellbeing courses, workshops and peer support groups. Step One Charity’s BeWell@StepOne service provides free online and in-person support to people over the age of 18 across Devon. The latest programme offers a range of topics, including anxiety, depression, resilience and managing anger and OCD, all delivered in small, secure groups led by qualified course leaders with lived experience of mental health issues. Step One Charity has been supporting people in Devon with...

Devon-based business launches 24 hour disco bike-a-thon fundraiser

The Positive Birth Company has announced an ambitious fundraising event for Tommy’s baby charity later this month which will see the team complete a 24 hour disco bike-a-thon relay at their HQ near Totnes.

Live streaming the entire event on their YouTube channel to more than 80,000 people, the company will be taking it in turns to complete shifts on a Peloton bike situated in their headquarters at Berry Pomeroy, while simultaneously having a disco to keep morale up throughout the 24 hour stint.

So far this year The Positive Birth Company has donated £6,737 from sales of...

Wife running in memory of rugby dad-of-three who never came home 

A mum-of-three is running the 2023 TCS London Marathon in memory of her rugby player husband who died suddenly.

Jill Sims will be taking on the 26.2-mile challenge in memory of her husband, Dave, who died from a sudden heart attack in March last year just moments before he was due to meet up with his three sons.

Jill, aged 55 and from Bradninch, said: “Six months before he died, Dave had gone to his doctor. He’d woken up in the early hours of the morning with chest pains. He was perspiring too and I was worried there might have been something wrong with his heart.”...

Wales & West Utilities links with Exeter charity

Wales & West Utilities has linked with an Exeter charity to provide support to homeless and vulnerably housed people across the city.

The gas emergency and pipeline service has partnered with St Petrock’s to provide ‘Keep Warm’ packs for homeless individuals, whilst carbon monoxide safety alarms are being distributed to vulnerably housed people known to the charity.

Each ‘Keep Warm’ pack contains hand warmers, a thermos flask, hot water bottle, blanket, socks, hat and gloves and are usually given to vulnerable customers whose gas supplies are affected for a short...

Ramer Sponges donates hundreds of sponges to local charities to help those in need

Honiton based Ramer Sponges has donated 400 sponges to two local charities, helping to support the community and those in need.

The UK’s leading manufacturer of super soft and super absorbent sponge products for beauty and body care has donated sponges to the Exeter Baby Bank Network and Hospiscare for Mid and East Devon. The sponges will be donated to local people who need extra support, ensuring they can continue with their hygiene and skincare regimes.

Ramer Sponges donated 200 Ultra Soft Baby Sponges to the Exeter Baby Bank Network which helps to alleviate child poverty...

South West tech company partners with local charity to support people with visual impairment

South West IT and technology support company Timewade have announced their new partnership with local charity Somerset Sight.

Timewade will be working with Somerset Sight as their Charity of the Year, raising money and awareness to support people living with visual impairment.

Somerset Sight offers a range of practical and emotional support to enable people who are blind or visually impaired to remain independent, from the point of diagnosis and beyond. The charity’s services include low visual aids, a mobile advisory service, activity groups and a volunteer visiting...

Tricia (in lighter top) and friend Cathie get ready to set off on their epic journey from Vancouver

Exeter charity worker races across the world to show BBC viewers that "sight loss doesn’t stop you doing anything"

A Devon woman says she hopes her appearance on a popular BBC adventure challenge series will encourage others with sight loss to take on their own challenges.

Tricia Sail, who has uveitis and is registered as severely sight impaired, and her fully sighted friend Cathie, are taking part in the third series of BAFTA-award winning BBC programme Race Across the World, which returns to our screens at 9pm on Wednesday 22 March, after a three-year hiatus.

The duo are among five sets of pairs competing to race across the second largest country in the world – Canada, starting off...

Local McDonald's franchisee partners with CEDA

McDonald’s franchisee, David Shawyer, who owns and operates four restaurants in the Exeter and Exmouth area, has just announced his partnership with CEDA (Community, Equality, Disability Action), an independent registered charity who provide learning and social opportunities for disabled people in Devon.

To celebrate David’s new partnership, on Tuesday 14th March he hosted a VIP event at his Exeter High Street restaurant whereby CEDA young people had exclusive use of the restaurant and received a meal from McDonald’s.

The aim of the event was to encourage the young...

Easy Does It - local charity fundraises without spending any money

A local charity is calling on everyone in the local area to help its fundraising - without giving a penny.

That’s because the Exeter, Mid and East Devon branch has signed up to a new online service called easyfundraising.

As its name suggests, it’s a simple way of raising money when you shop online.

Easyfundraising has partnered with around 7,000 major shopping brands and if you shop at any of those brands online, you can secure a percentage donation to the local Samaritans - and it’s the shop that pays, not you.

Every time you shop online that brand...

Charities

Pitch perfect: Football meets rugby in Exeter’s Strive ‘25 takeover

Old Mill Fund reaches £50,000 milestone

Free mental health and wellbeing courses and peer support groups for people across Devon

Devon-based business launches 24 hour disco bike-a-thon fundraiser

Wife running in memory of rugby dad-of-three who never came home

Wales & West Utilities links with Exeter charity

Ramer Sponges donates hundreds of sponges to local charities to help those in need

South West tech company partners with local charity to support people with visual impairment

Exeter charity worker races across the world to show BBC viewers that "sight loss doesn’t stop you doing anything"

Local McDonald's franchisee partners with CEDA

Easy Does It - local charity fundraises without spending any money

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