Charities

The Exeter branch of RGB Building Supplies and Devon-based charity Amigos are thanking the local community for the amazing response received to their recent appeal to donate preloved tools. These will all now go on to help young people in Africa lift themselves and their families out of poverty.

Amigos has been working in Uganda for nearly 20 years and for the last nine it has been providing vocational training in construction skills. Throughout June and July, a total of 33 ‘dumpy bags’ of tools were collected across the RGB network and in some cases, instead of donating preloved...

September is blood cancer awareness month and local charity Exeter Leukaemia Fund (ELF) will be collecting and raising awareness across Devon to help raise funds and awareness for the charity.

ELF is currently looking for volunteers to donate an hour or two of time to help at various collections around the county. Volunteering is a great opportunity to get out and about in the community, meet new people and help a great cause.

ELF is currently recruiting for collections in Exeter at the Guildhall Shopping Centre on Saturday 14th September and Tesco Exeter Vale on Thursday...

To celebrate Devon Open Studios 2019, Rainbow Living has launched a Charity Art Auction , with work donated by three local artists.

Joan Prowse , Helen Workman and Roy Anderson – or Fotos, Flowers and Felt as they like to be known – are exhibiting at Joan’s Studio during Devon Open Studios, taking place 7th to 22nd September; the studio will be open to the public, providing an opportunity to view the four pieces being auctioned, along with the artists’ other work.

Joan works in many different media and has donated ‘On the Crest of the Wave’, an original framed needle...

Educated Recruitment are thrilled to announce that they are taking part in the £50 Challenge for Children’s Hospice South West and are hosting a charity evening on Friday 27th September at Coomebinteignhead Village Hall.

The charity event will include a quiz, raffle and auction with amazing prizes to be won and a disco to round off the evening!

Our event is open to the public, so please do come along on what will be a fantastic, local event for such an incredible cause. The night kicks off at 6:30pm with the quiz to start at 7.15pm. The raffle, auction and disco to follow...