Charities benefit from Exeter Business Club

Four local charities are to benefit from donations by members of Exeter Business Club. 

The club decided to split £2,000 equally between four Exeter-based charities, Devon In Sight, St Loyes Foundation, Friends of Buburi and Honeylands Children’s Charity. 

Representatives from each charity attended a special presentation where they had an opportunity to talk to EBC members about the work they do and how the money would be spent. 

St Loyes Foundation fundraiser Phil Roberts said the donation would be split between their Transitions service which helps former Service men and women into jobs and their Changemaker programme which helps provide essentials such as clothing and equipment to prepare people to win jobs and maintain them. 

Grahame Flynn, chief executive of Devon In Sight spoke of the work they do offering practical help and advice to people affected by sight loss, particularly those with peripheral vision. 

Honeylands Children’s Charity represented by Les Christiansen, helps children with complex special needs or life limiting conditions, benefiting more than 100 children and families every year in the East and Mid Devon areas. 

Meanwhile Noreen Collins described the work of Friends of Buburi, founded by four nurses who run a clinic in a remote part of Kenya and one of the world’s most malarial areas.   Noreen, who’s a practice nurse in Exeter, began travelling out to Buburi seven years ago to help treat patients and train nurses to carry on the work. 

The cheques for £500 each were presented by Exeter Business Club chair, Belinda Newton.