Charities

Exeter based charity CEDA (Community, Equality, Disability Action) is the latest South West organisation launching a new ‘go green’ initiative, raising awareness of small changes that can be made to help protect our planet.

CEDA delivers education and social opportunities with disabled people and works with over 150 individuals each week. The charity employs 90 staff and volunteers each of whom are being encouraged to make small changes one step at a time.

CEDA has replaced its plastic straws with new biodegradable alternatives and it has increased the number of recycling...

This Spring, Hospiscare is encouraging people to get their affairs in order and help to support their local end of life care services at the same time.

17 different solicitors across Exeter, Mid and East Devon will be generously giving their time and expertise so that you can have your Will prepared or updated. Instead of paying the usual solicitor’s fee, you can instead make an appropriate donation to Hospiscare at your appointment.

In previous years Hospiscare’s Will Fortnight has been the incentive and encouragement many people have needed to get their Will made or...

When you’ve only cycled a total of 60 miles before, taking on Children’s Hospice South West’s epic 205-mile Ride for Precious Lives event could be a massive challenge, but nurse Jo Bingham, from Exeter, is determined to give something back to the charity.

In 2016, Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW) launched an initiative to encourage nurses to return to practice and retrain as a children’s palliative care nurse. Jo was selected for the programme and joined the care team at the charity’s Little Bridge House hospice near Barnstaple in January 2017 and completed her training at...

Ladies across the South Devon will join Barbara the sheep and her farmyard friends on Saturday 7 July for the baa-rilliant ladies-only Rowcroft Sleep Walk charity event. The team at Exeter-based design agency, Drive Creative Studio, has supported Rowcroft Hospice for eight years with the branding, design, advertising and promotional materials for the Sleep Walk. This year, as well as designing and illustrating the 2018 Sleep Walk materials, Drive Creative Studio is also showing support by becoming an official sponsor of the event. Team members of Drive have been working with Rowcroft since...