Charities

A Devon family support group has received the backing from a leading local housebuilder in the South West, Persimmon Homes.

The £5,000 donation comes through Persimmon’s Community Champions scheme, which provides up to £750,000 every year to good causes across Great Britain.

SNUG – supporting neonatal users and graduates - was founded in 2011 by a group of local individuals who all shared the same goal; to offer advocacy and wrap-around support to families who have been impacted upon by a difficult pregnancy, birth or neonatal stay.

Since its inception, SNUG has...

Golfers at the Exeter Golf and Country Club have teed off a year of fundraising for the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital.

Men’s and ladies’ 2023-24 golf captains Geoff Fidler and Vicki Rogers have chosen the RD&E Charity as their charity of the year and hope to raise £20,000 to support the hospital’s oncology department.

The department treated Geoff for prostate cancer more than a decade ago, and again last year, when his cancer returned.

He said: “Throughout my time in radiotherapy, I met many other cancer patients who were also being treated by the marvellous...

A Devon cat welfare charity has launched a £100,000 fundraising campaign in response to the increasing demand for its help.

Hector’s House Cat Rescue was set up by Zara Oldfield in 2020 during the Covid pandemic to rescue, rehabilitate and rehome abandoned unneutered tom cats. It became a registered charity in November 2020 and has grown to become one of the biggest cat welfare charities in the region, operating across Devon.

The charity now is planning to set up a dedicated centre to double the number of cat pens to 20 and provide space for visitors, storage, education...

Balloons, a local bereavement charity that supports children and young people have received a £10,000 donation from an unusual source.

The Crematorium and Memorial Group (CMG), operators of Exeter and Devon Crematorium and part of Dignity plc , was able to make the donation to Balloons due to the crematorium participating in a nationwide metal recycling scheme, administered by the Association of Private Crematoria & Cemeteries.

The scheme sees metals that have been recovered from the deceased during the cremation process recycled, with the express consent of bereaved...