Charities

A team of cancer specialists from the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital has raised more than £7,000 for charity by doing laps of the Wonford site.

Eighty-six people took part in the challenge to run or walk two-kilometre circuits around the perimeter of the RD&E campus last week, before and after work and during their breaks.

They all joined in to raise money for FORCE Cancer Charity, which is still supporting local people affected by cancer during the Coronavirus pandemic lockdown.

Team Oncology included doctors, radiographers, physicists, head and neck...

DETERMINED fundraisers across Devon and Cornwall are set to Race for Life at Home as they refuse to let the fight against cancer falter in these unprecedented times.

Organisers Cancer Research UK have postponed events for this spring and summer to protect the country’s health during the coronavirus outbreak – and this includes the Race for Life events in Exeter, Plymouth, Exeter, Falmouth, Penzance and Stithian’s Showground in Cornwall.

But as the country continues on lockdown, undeterred women and men are already vowing to carry on and complete a Race for Life challenge...

Exeter’s Really Big Quiz, which has raised over £84,000 for local charities over the past 16 years, has announced that despite the decision to move the annual May Exeter fundraising event to 2021, the Lord Mayor’s Charity of the year, CITY Community Trust, will receive £1,200 from The Really Big Quiz. The decision to move the event was taken in light of the impact of Covid-19 and necessary restrictions on social gatherings that remain in place for the foreseeable future.

Of the £1,200, half is being donated thanks to the generosity of teams that had booked their place and asked for...

A grassroots community project has raised an incredible £3000 in aid of their production of vital Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for community-based health and care workers in their first weekend. They are hoping to continue raising around £1000 a day to keep up with the demand for face shields in the local community.

The PPE4Exeter project was launched last week in order to raise money for the materials needed to produce face shields for use by vital community services during the Coronavirus crisis. To date they have distributed over 1200 face shields to a variety of staff...