Charities

A University of Exeter Business School student will aim to swim across Lake Geneva later this month in a money and awareness-raising feat of endurance for charity.

Oscar Sanger, who studies Business Management and will be entering his final year in September, decided to raise money for the eating disorder charity Beat after a close family member became ill with bulimia and anorexia.

Studying in Lausanne on a year abroad and far from his family, Oscar was preoccupied with the condition of his teenage cousin who had been hospitalised, and looking for ways he could show his...

A sponsored step challenge which raises vital funds for leading charity Diabetes UK returns this summer – and a call has gone out for people from Devon to sign up.

The One Million Step Challenge, sponsored by Fitbit, runs between 1 July and 30 September and tasks participants with completing a massive one million steps over three months – around 10,000 a day. Participants can take on the challenge from their own doorstep, at their own pace.

All funds raised will go towards Diabetes UK’s work funding life-saving research and ensuring everyone living with diabetes gets the...

The 24th annual Nello cycle ride in aid of FORCE Cancer Charity is on course to raise £60,000.

Nearly 900 cyclists took to the roads around Devon to support the Exeter-based charity, which offers free support and advice to local people affected by cancer.

The riders tackled 60 or 100 mile routes in glorious sunshine, starting and finishing at Topsham Rugby Club.

They came from all over the world to take part.

Craig Muldoon travelled 6,000 miles from Thailand to his former home town of Topsham be a part of an event he first rode 20 years ago.

He lost...

Hospitality venues, businesses and residents in and around Exeter are being invited to get involved in a campaign to help a homelessness charity support the growing numbers of rough sleepers.

In a drive to build momentum leading up to St Petrock’s Big Cream Tea , which takes place over the weekend of 8 and 9 July, the campaign launches this week, online and across traditional media.

The charity has recorded a light-hearted 30 second film with Naomi Cleaver, designer, author and television presenter , enthusiastically enjoying one of the nation’s best loved...