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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...

Local homebuilder donates £2,500 to local homelessness charity

Local homebuilder Barratt David Wilson Homes Exeter division has donated a heart-warming £2,500 to St Petrock’s Exeter, a local charity that fights homelessness across Exeter and Devon.

The Barratt Developments Community Fund initiative looks to support those causes which have a positive impact within their local communities. As well as the donation Barratt David Wilson Homes staff were also able to volunteer in the St Petrock’s kitchens. St Petrock’s first opened their doors over 25 years ago and have since been providing crucial support and outreach to the most vulnerable...

The Swan Christmas quiz raises £1,000 for charity

Authored by Reporters
Posted: Thu, 12/22/2022 - 2:17pm

EGGHEADS from Devon helped raised more than £1,000 for a charity in the county at a Christmas quiz night held at an award-winning pub (December 2022).

The Swan in Bampton hosted the event in aid of the Churches Housing Action Team (CHAT) and quizzers helped raise £1,032 for the good cause.

Chef-patron Paul Berry, who co-owns the gastropub with his wife and fellow award-winning chef Donna, says: “Our annual Christmas quiz night is always a bit special and this year we were raising funds for CHAT, which tackles homelessness in the area.

“Through quiz entry sales and a...

Choir’s carol concerts raise thousands for local charity Dream-A-Way

Authored by Sharon Goble
Posted: Tue, 12/20/2022 - 12:38pm

Two carol concerts by Exeter Philharmonic Choir have raised almost three thousand pounds for local charity Dream-A-Way, which helps make holiday dreams come true for Devon children and adults with disabilities or life-affecting health conditions.

The generosity of concertgoers at Exeter Cathedral on 13 and 14 December raised a total of £2,913, a sum that representatives of Exeter-based Dream-A-Way were delighted to receive.

Exeter Philharmonic Choir has a proud tradition of raising funds for local charities through its Christmas carol concerts, made possible with the...

Mortgage broker turns into Santa to help Exeter families in need

Thanks to The Mortgage Quarter's annual gift appeal and the generosity of the local community, Exeter families in need are set to receive a bumper load of gifts in time for Christmas.

Since 2019, The Mortgage Quarter has run a Christmas toy appeal for a local charity, but this year the company decided to go large and widen the scope. Working in partnership with Exeter CoLab , the donations will benefit seven Exeter-based charities supporting children, domestic abuse survivors, families in temporary accommodation and Ukrainian refugees.

Despite the size of the ask, the local...

Chiefs get behind Exeter homelessness charity’s Christmas campaign

A city homelessness charity will receive a huge boost from Saturday, as its Christmas campaign film is broadcast to thousands of fans at a high profile match, in the Exeter Chiefs stadium.

Shown on the giant screens around the pitch, St Petrock’s short fundraising video , featuring Coldplay’s Christmas Lights, will be viewed by vast crowds at the big game between the Chiefs and Bulls.

Chief executive and chairman, Tony Rowe , has also given his permission for the film to air at the premiership club’s match against Bath on Christmas Eve, as well as on internal screens in...

Boost for Children’s Hospice South West

Authored by Liv Butler
Posted: Tue, 12/13/2022 - 5:56am

Children’s Hospice South West, the children’s charity providing care for children and young people with life-limiting or life-threatening conditions and their families across Devon, Somerset and Cornwall, has been boosted by a contribution from Bloor Homes.

The funds will be used by the charity to continue its provision of a range of on-site services at its three hospices located in Barnstaple, Bristol and St Austell. It will also help the charity further the ‘at-home’ support services, which emerged as a result of the pandemic.

Paul Courtney, Director of Fundraising at...

Ukrainian mezzo-soprano Iryna Ilnytska

Ukrainian opera singer from Exeter features in concert raising over 5,000 for British Red Cross’s Ukraine appeal

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Mon, 12/12/2022 - 9:06pm

A concert featuring a Ukrainian opera singer in Devon has raised more than £5,000 for the British Red Cross’s Ukraine appeal.

The concert took place on November 12, 2022, at Luppitt Village Hall in East Devon, featuring musical acts, an auction and a raffle.

Ukrainian mezzo-soprano Iryna Ilnytska, who lives in Exeter, opened the night with two songs – a Ukrainian lullaby and a folk song called ‘The Moon in the Sky’.

David Kalisch, from Combe Raleigh, and Roger Hicks, from Luppitt, organised the event and also appeared as busking duo Blue Sky.

Iryna...

Missing People launch campaign in partnership with Stagecoach to reach people in crisis before they disappear

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Mon, 12/12/2022 - 8:55pm

UK charity Missing People, along with Stagecoach, the UK’s largest bus and coach operator, have joined together on a campaign that will encourage people in crisis to call the free and confidential helpline before they think of disappearing.

The charity confirmed that it is hearing first-hand that financial issues like not being able to pay bills, unpaid debt, and food insecurity are driving people to think about going missing. In response, the charity launched a new preventative campaign in October to reach more people in crisis.

With around 100,000 adults reported...

Local homebuilder makes larger donations available to community groups through charitable scheme 

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Sun, 12/11/2022 - 5:54pm

Local homebuilder, Persimmon Homes has announced exciting changes to Community Champions, the company’s generous charitable scheme which has given over £1.5m in the last two years alone to over 5,000 charities, sports clubs and local organisations in Britain.

Through the scheme, Persimmon Homes’ four regional businesses across the South West has previously provided grants of £1,000 to a range of worthy cause throughout the year.

The company has today announced that it will be providing grants of up to £6,000 to community groups and charities every three months, at least...

Exeter Northcott Theatre donates Christmas panto tickets to local charity

Exeter Community Initiatives (ECI), a charity based in Exeter, has been given 40 free Christmas pantomime tickets by Exeter Northcott Theatre to distribute to local families.

ECI’s Devon Family Resource project, which supports families with children aged 0-18 facing challenges and hardships, will distribute the Robin Hood panto tickets amongst the families it works with.

ECI helps people facing poverty, inequality and homelessness to get their lives back on track by involving them in community projects to improve their mental, emotional and physical wellbeing, increase...

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