Lloyd Barnes Accountancy Recruitment staged a Charity Quiz Night last week at Exeter Golf & Country Club, raising a substantial amount for Devon Community Foundation.
The quiz night, attended by over 100 professionals from businesses across Devon including Flybe, Thrifty, EDF, Foot Anstey, Stephens & Scown, Cobell and Maximus, tested everyone’s minds to the max. With questions such as ‘How many UK number 1 hits did Elvis Presley have?’ and ‘What was the name of the first space shuttle?’, how do you think you would have fared?
Have you got a burning desire to face a new challenge and raise a scorching amount of money in the process? Then join other fearless fundraisers at Exeter’s Double Locks pub on 1 November and take part in a Fire Walk in aid of WESC Foundation - The Specialist Centre for Visual Impairment.
Organised in association with UK Firewalk, the event will raise funds through sponsorship for the charity, which provides specialist education and care to blind and partially sighted children and young people. You can enter either individually or as a team, and all participants will be mentored...
Now everyone can have a Great Gorilla in their front room.
Four of Paignton Zoo’s popular Great Gorillas have been reproduced as limited edition hand-painted miniatures.
The Great Gorillas Project is celebrating the 90th birthday of the Zoo, which is a registered charity. The collectables are faithful ceramic reproductions of their life-size counterparts. You can choose from Herbert, Five Minutes to Midnight, Cool Ice Cream Bananas and Hippocampus Guttulatus.
Paignton Zoo spokesperson Phil Knowling said: “The pieces are approximately 16 centimetres long, 14...
Fourteen bankers spent a day lending a helping hand at Hospiscare’s Enterprise Centre (HEC) recently, before bouncing, wheeling and paddling down Exeter Quay to raise money for the local charity.
The team from RBS swapped spreadsheets and suits for Ebay and second-hand clothing to spend a day alongside staff and volunteers at the HEC, processing the donations and house clearance items which are brought to the Trusham Road site every day.
The team then got together just a few days later to take part in a marathon challenge along Exeter Quay, coming up with a whole host of...
Oxjam Exeter has announced some of the venues that will together host up to 120 live music acts during the Oxjam Exeter Takeover weekend, taking place on 19 and 20 October 2013.
The Takeover weekend venues confirmed are The Cavern, The Phoenix (bar), Mama Stones, The Old Firehouse, The Revelry, Cellar Door, The Lemon Grove, The Angel and the Orchard at National Trust Killerton, where Takeover ticket holders will be able to attend their annual Apple and Cider weekend.
Oxjam Exeter is part of a national live music festival, taking place in up to 60 towns and cities across the...
Devon’s Crealy Great Adventure Park employee Rebecca Tapp has recently taken a once in a lifetime trip to become a volunteer teacher in South Africa. Rebecca, from Cullompton, taught children at Sithobelumtheto Senior Primary School in the Madadeni Township in North East South Africa and took some gifts from Devon’s Crealy Great Adventure Park to give to the children.
Rebecca said: “I was really fortunate to be able to visit the Madadeni Township and the Primary School. I met some amazing people and it was a very humbling experience. I am really grateful to Crealy’s Chief Executive...
Less than two weeks after local charity See the Future had a collection pot stolen from a shop in Honiton, Devon’s social media users have come to the aid of the charity and helped it win a charity donation from the Exeter Cleaning Company.
Exeter Cleaning regularly runs competitions and giveaways on their Facebook account at http://www.facebook.com/exetercleaning and has a tradition of ensuring that local charities benefit as well. Their latest giveaway was a £100 donation for a local charity.
Online supporters of See the Future, which funds research into conditions...
Children at a hospice in Devon are proud that their hand-painted gorilla shares his name with the royal baby.
The gorilla, part of Paignton Zoo’s Great Gorillas Project, was created by children at Children’s Hospice South West and named George.
Naomi Dymond, from Children’s Hospice South West, said: “Kate has an affiliation with the hospice movement, but we never thought she’d name her baby after our gorilla!” The Duchess of Cambridge visited a hospice in Hampshire as part of Children’s Hospice Week 2013.
“We are extremely honoured that our little gorilla shares his...
Go-Kart Party has raised over £750 for the WESC Foundation with its inflatable boundary track located in Princesshay Square throughout the summer, as part of the continued charity partnership between WESC Foundation and Princesshay.
Go-Kart Party kindly donated 10% of all takings throughout their summer to the WESC Foundation, together with additional money from the onsite raffle to win an All-Terrain Kart™.
The pay per ride electric Go-Karts in Princesshay Square ran on an 11 by 16 metre track specifically designed for 4 to10 year olds and, powered by gel filled batteries...
Princesshay Shopping Centre has partnered up with the MS Society to support people affected by multiple sclerosis (MS), by hosting the Big Orange Drop Abseil on Thursday 31st October from 12 noon until 7pm.
Princesshay and the MS Society are very keen for all to get involved and aim to raise as much money as possible. So if descending a massive 80 feet on Halloween sounds like your kind of thing and you’re over 12 years old, the centre would love to hear from you!
Isca Outdoor will be providing the essential equipment, fully qualified instructors and ground level training...
