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The Michelmores 5k Charity Run returns for 2026

The Michelmores 5k Charity Run is returning in 2026, welcoming runners, volunteers and supporters back to Exeter’s Quayside for another lively and community-focused event – and marking a special milestone as the Run celebrates its 25th anniversary.

Now firmly established as a highlight in the local calendar, the annual Run brings businesses together to promote wellbeing while raising vital funds for Michelmores’ charity partner.

Over its 25-year history, the Michelmores 5k Charity Run has raised more than £400,000 for charitable causes, supporting organisations that make...

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Free DAB radios for over 70s as BBC Local Radio aims to Make A Difference

BBC Local Radio is teaming up with manufacturers, retailers and a loneliness charity to offer free DAB radios to the most vulnerable people aged over 70.

It comes as millions of people are forced to stay in their homes and isolate from their friends and families because of the coronavirus outbreak.

Radio is a vital source of news, information and companionship in these unprecedented times and BBC Local Radio wants to ensure as many people as possible have access to it.

So it will be giving away DAB digital radios to people nominated by Local Radio listeners. It’...

Stagecoach SW bus services to move to new timetable

At these unprecedented times, Stagecoach South West are working hard to maintain services across the region to keep their communities connected and ensure key workers can travel.

From Monday 30 March the bus operator will be reducing their frequency in line with customer demand and changing travel patterns.

For most routes this means a Sunday timetable with additional early morning journeys to allow key workers to commute. These special timetables will run Mondays to Saturdays with majority then operating a normal Sunday service.

Stagecoach are continuing to...

4 Varieties of E-Bikes that Would Fit Your Style

Electric bikes are the new wave of technology that can drastically change the way we travel to work and generally get around. There is a boom in e-bikes with different companies offering many kinds of features. Depending on your personal style and needs, you can now find an electric bike that suits you.

Pedal Assisted Electric Bikes

Electric bicycles can incorporate the extra boost of speed and power through a throttle or by assisting the biker to pedal. Pedal assisted bikes detect any extra effort by the biker when pedaling and adds a boost of power and speed to this momentum....

Help us help them - Adopt a Healthcare Worker

Our NHS and national healthcare providers are on the front-line fighting COVID 19, from A&E departments, doctors, nurses and paramedics through to porters, cleaners and catering staff - they’re all pulling together to help saves – our lives! But they need our help.

If you, your friends, and or neighbours know of someone who is working in healthcare – now is the time to offer the hand of friendship.

What does this mean? Well, it can be as simple as doing some shopping, preparing an evening meal or offering a lift to work.

It’s good to be kind so please, ask...

Social care needs you

Last week in response to the COVID19 outbreak the Government called upon retired nurses and doctors to return to work with the line ‘your NHS needs you’.

A spokesperson for Care England said: "Care England, the largest representative body for independent providers of adult social care, is complementing this message, ‘social care needs you too’.

"The adult social care sector too will require the support of the nation in the coming months if it is to continue to support some of society’s most vulnerable at these most worrying of times. We encourage those who are willing...

Council pledges support and advice for businesses

Devon County Council has pledged that it will do everything it can to help local businesses through the coronavirus outbreak and ensure a strong recovery for the local economy.

The authority is encouraging businesses to visit the Heart of the South West Growth Hub to find essential information on available support and advice.

The Growth Hub, which is delivered by the County Council on behalf of the HotSW Local Enterprise Partnership, can help provide businesses with details of the Government’s proposals on Business Rate Relief and how eligible businesses can apply for...

Exeter builder's cash boost for community hub

A charity dedicated to improving the lives of residents in Paignton and the surrounding villages has been given a cash boost by a regional builder to help with its work.

Persimmon Homes South West, based in Exeter, donated £1,000 to the Thrive Project Community Hub through its Community Champions scheme.

The Thrive Project is a community hub run by unpaid volunteers. It offers support to approximately 60 people per week, in the guise of food, clothes, computer and phone use, care of address, activities, referrals, specialist drop ins, sourcing accommodation, goods,...

New support service launched in Exeter to offer help during coronavirus outbreak

A support service has been launched in Exeter to help people through the coronavirus outbreak.

Exeter Community Wellbeing has been set up to offer help and support to communities including those individuals who are self-isolating as a result of the virus.

At the same time a £1 million community action fund has also been launched by Exeter City Council and Exeter Chiefs Community Foundation to enable community groups and organisations to get rapid access to small grants to allow them to work on local projects to support those people and communities most affected by the...

Start-ups step up to help communities

The UK has witnessed a wave of unprecedented change: school closures, work-from-home, self-isolation, supermarket stockpiling and increased pressure on hospitals. On the flipside, amongst uncertainty, fear and worry, the UK has also seen communities and businesses step up and show their solidarity like never before. From NHS discounts to free online gym-classes, Yoopies, the largest online homecare platform in Europe, is also playing an integral role to encourage communities across the UK to help those that need it most. The platform has launched:

A new Elderly Care

An insight into secured loans

With the restructuring of the secured loan market segment, the high rates and fees as well as the stigma that once plagued this sector are rapidly disappearing. Secured loan sales, now part of the mortgage industry, are a fast-growing market in the UK, up 30 percent in February 2019 over the previous year Reaching £65.5 million in February 2019, secured loans are expected to top these levels have exceeded 2009 amounts; brokers who have not completed a secured loan in months are now seeing these loans on a regular basis.

“Part of this increase is attributed to the improvements in...

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The Michelmores 5k Charity Run returns for 2026

Free DAB radios for over 70s as BBC Local Radio aims to Make A Difference

Stagecoach SW bus services to move to new timetable

4 Varieties of E-Bikes that Would Fit Your Style

Help us help them - Adopt a Healthcare Worker

Social care needs you

Council pledges support and advice for businesses

Exeter builder's cash boost for community hub

New support service launched in Exeter to offer help during coronavirus outbreak

Start-ups step up to help communities

An insight into secured loans

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