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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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Local volunteer Martin honoured with Trustee of the Year award

Devon Community Foundation hosted their annual Volunteer of the Year awards ceremony at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM) in Exeter, honouring the hard work and achievements of the volunteers from the groups they support. Local volunteer Martin Weiler from Exeter was recognised with the Trustee of the Year award, sponsored by Devon Association of Community Voluntary Servicesfor his work with the Exeter City Supporters Trust and the ‘One Game One Community’ Campaign.

One Game One Community (OGOC)is part of the Exeter City Supporters Trust and is tasked with promoting diversity...

Exeter Police and Community Choir help Hospiscare

Don’t miss a great start to your Christmas entertainment – in truly traditional style!

Exeter Police and Community Choir are staging their annual Christmas Charity Concert on Sunday, December 9 this year at 3pm.

The choir will once again be supported by the award-winning Sidmouth Town Band for the concert which takes place at St. Peter’s School, Quarry Lane, Exeter, this year In aid of Exeter Hospiscare.

“Many people are only too aware of the comfort provided by the Exeter Hospice in their time of need, and we are delighted to be supporting this very worthy cause...

Improve life after brain injury with a Christmas pudding!

Local brain injury charity, Headway Devon, have teamed up with the Ultimate Plum Pudding Company to offer Christmas puddings that will help raise money for local people with disabilities.

As well as a Gold Great Taste Award winning traditional plum pudding, the charity is also offering zingy lemon sponge puddings and triple chocolate puddings as an interesting alternative for the festive season.

These delicious puddings cost £5.50 each and serve four people. All proceeds from the sales will be donated to Headway Devon's vital work with local people who...

Local celebs back the Surviving Winter campaign

Famous faces from across the Westcountry including Ann Widdecombe and Angela Rippon are backing this year’s Surviving Winter Appeal which is being coordinated locally by Devon Community Foundation. The campaign, which has recently been launched, will help thousands of vulnerable and older people affected by fuel poverty this winter.

Ann Widdecombe, who has supported the campaign for many years said, “I will be among the first to donate my Winter Fuel Payment to the Surviving Winter Appeal. This small gesture is such an easy and obvious way to support local people in real need and I...

Exeter charity gets back on its feet after office fire

Surf Life Saving GB, a charity of more than 6,000 volunteers helping to make the country’s beaches safer places, is celebrating moving into its new offices following a fire in Exeter’s Southernhay three weeks ago (2nd November).

A fire in the ground floor of its shared office building in Southernhay, meant Surf Life Saving GB’s national headquarters were deemed unsafe and the charity was effectively made immediately homeless.

As a charity, there is very little cash kept in reserve, with the majority being reinvested into projects to help educate and train...

Event Exeter part of biggest BBC Children in Need night ever

Hundreds of staff, students and local people joined the BBC in the Forum at the University on Friday 16 November for the annual Children in Need broadcast.

Hosted by BBC presenters David Fitzgerald and Victoria Graham, the festivities started at 1.30pm. The event, which was managed by the Event Exeter team in collaboration with University colleagues, featured live broadcasts by the BBC Spotlight team as well as linking to the national TV network programme throughout the evening.

The Forum, a £48m development opened in May this year by Her Majesty The...

Students from Exeter College break out for NSPCC

Over 50 dedicated students set off for destinations across Exeter, the south west and further afield raising funds for NSPCC during the Exeter College Jailbreak 2012 last week.

Contestants dressed as animals, superheroes, film characters and fairies were all trying to travel as far away from the college as possible without spending a penny of their own money. Organised into registered teams and armed with collection buckets, the students from across the college were keen to beat last year’s record destination of London.

“Each year the students choose a charity that we...

Win X Factor tickets in Hospiscare silent auction

How about getting a loved one an early Christmas present which money normally can't buy? Hospiscare is running a silent auction of a pair of tickets for one of the semi-finals of X Factor Live, which is being held in London on 2nd December.

The auction prize also includes watching the results show, 15 mins of the Xtra Factor and access to the backstage bar area afterwards.

To be in with a chance of winning this fantastic prize, send a pledge for your highest bid along with your full name and address, daytime contact number and payment method to fundraising@hospiscare.co.uk...

A season’s best for Exeter City Football Club

Exeter City Football Club set a new record for the season against Fleetwood on Saturday – by raising a total of £969.77 for the Poppy Appeal during the half-time bucket collection.

The previous highest total for the current campaign was £926.43, which had been raised for the Adam Stansfield Foundation during the Grecians’ Capital One Cup tie against Championship side Crystal Palace.

St James’ Park hosted a Remembrance silence – which was observed immaculately both the home and away supporters – and an on-field ceremony by the Royal British Legion. The...

Devon Community Foundation launches Surviving Winter Appeal

With temperatures dropping and fuel prices rising, Devon Community Foundation have launched this year’s Surviving Winter Appeal to raise money to help the vulnerable and older people at risk in Devon this winter. The campaign is supported by local celebrities including Ann Widdecombe and Angela Rippon.

With the prospect of another cold winter, the vulnerable and older people are at risk. The Surviving Winter Appeal offers anyone who receives their Winter Fuel Payment but does not need it to donate it to help those most in need in our communities.

Martha Wilkinson, Chief...

Charities

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

Local volunteer Martin honoured with Trustee of the Year award

Exeter Police and Community Choir help Hospiscare

Improve life after brain injury with a Christmas pudding!

Local celebs back the Surviving Winter campaign

Exeter charity gets back on its feet after office fire

Event Exeter part of biggest BBC Children in Need night ever

Students from Exeter College break out for NSPCC

Win X Factor tickets in Hospiscare silent auction

A season’s best for Exeter City Football Club

Devon Community Foundation launches Surviving Winter Appeal

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