Devon Air Ambulance (DAA) are delighted to be the chosen charity for the 2024 West Country Farming and Machinery Show, which will take place on Wednesday 21 February at Westpoint, Exeter.
Home to a large agricultural community DAA is all too familiar with the perils of the industry, attending a considerable number of farming incidents year on year, and as such have been selected as the show’s charity for its vital emergency medical service across the county.
The West Country Farming and Machinery Show had a successful first year, with over 2,000 attendees and 90...
Local homebuilder Barratt David Wilson Homes Exeter has recently donated £1,500 to Balloons, a small, local charity working across Exeter, East and Mid Devon, as part of the developers community fund initiative.
The Barratt Developments community fund initiative looks to support those causes which have a positive impact within their local communities. Balloons, set up in 2007 is dedicated to providing essential bereavement and support services to children and young people aged five-25, when someone significant in their lives dies. For many children this is their first experience...
A special concert in aid of Charities supported by the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust is organised by one of the south-west leading sea shanty crews Mariners Away.
The event features an evening of eclectic and original sounds of Devon brought to you by Mariners Away in collaboration with the highly talented Devon-born folk singer/songwriter Jim Causley, the immensely popular and original folk trio from Plymouth, Windjammer together with the internationally renowned and quite remarkable harpist Elizabeth-Jane Baldry.
Exeter original band “no ordinary fish” are playing a gig at Exeter Phoenix Studio 1 on Sunday 8th October from 7.30-9.30pm to release their 2nd album “Adverse Camber”. Tickets cost £5 and proceeds from ticket sales will go to the charity Overcoming Multiple Sclerosis as drummer/singer Stu has the condition and recently had to quit teaching after 25 years ...how many singing drummers do you know with MS?! CDs, t-shirts, baseball caps and tote bags will also be on sale.
Tickets available here https://exeterphoenix.org.uk/events/no-ordinary-fish/
The chairman of disability charity SeeAbility was at the wheel of a 55-year-old Morris Minor in Exeter and Honiton on 6 September to bid farewell to old friends.
Gordon Ilett is making a 1,000 mile tour of SeeAbility locations across southern England to mark the end of his term as chairman of the charity, which supports people with learning disabilities and autism, who may also have sight loss.
Gordon said: “I want to visit as many of the people we support as possible to thank them and the staff teams for making SeeAbility such a great charity.”
Digital marketing experts Optix Solutions are about to begin working with residential community Stallcombe House – and it won’t cost the charity a penny.
It came about after a visit to Stallcombe House by Optix MD Rob Stevens. Rob has a sister with physical and mental disabilities who is in lifelong care in Cambridge.
He explains “The UK care industry faces a myriad of challenges including chronic underfunding, staffing shortages and increasing demand due to an ageing population. The sheltered housing my sister lives in is not the happiest of places, and it has been an...
West Country house builder Devonshire Homes has raised a fantastic £5,000 for its chosen charity partners, South West Blood Bikes and Cornwall Blood Bikes.
Devonshire Homes welcomed guests from across the housing and construction industry to Dainton Park Golf Club in Newton Abbot for its biennial Charity Golf Day. Teams of four took to the green in high spirits. Despite the grey weather, 18 teams attended to support Devonshire Homes in raising vital funds for the two Blood Bike charities. The day consisted of 18-holes and a range of competitions including the longest drive,...
The Crematorium and Memorial Group donates over £1million to charity by recycling metal body parts.
The Crematorium and Memorial Group (CMG), part of Dignity, has donated over £1 million to good causes since this time last year. Donations have been made possible through CMG’s participation in a nationwide not for profit metal recycling scheme administered by the Association of Private Crematoria and Cemeteries.
The recycling scheme, operating with the express consent of bereaved families, sees metals that have been recovered from the deceased during the cremation process...
A Devon-wide health and wellbeing charity, based near Exeter, is seeking support from businesses and volunteers in the ‘final push’ for a new venture that will offer free workshops to people of all ages to teach them how to prepare nutritious meals from scratch with simple, affordable ingredients - at a time when cooking healthily, cost-effectively and sustainably has never been more important.
The idea of creating a bespoke teaching kitchen at Westbank Community Health and Care began simmering away a year ago following the Covid lockdowns. During the pandemic, the charity...
DCW Polymers, the South West’s only specialist plastics recycling and reprocessing plant, has raised £3,101.68 for local charities by recycling plastic tubs and bottle tops donated by the general public.
The funds, which have been split equally between Dartmoor Zoological Society and Life Chance Trust, were raised through DCW Polymers’ Recycle & Raise initiative. The appeal asked the general public to donate plastic tubs and bottle tops for recycling which DCW Polymers has shredded into granules.
The granules have been used in the manufacturing of DCW’s recycled plastic...
