The Wave Project is inviting people in Devon to paddle out LOUD for mental health at a fancy dress paddle board event along the stunning River Exe on 3 June.
Paddle Out LOUD is a family-friendly event that enables people to try paddle-boarding in a safe environment – while celebrating positive mental health.
The event is part of a series of unforgettable fancy-dress paddle across the UK. Hundreds of paddlers will be paddling a craft of their choice in fancy dress. Participants can also choose to set up a fundraising page to raise funds for the charity’s work in helping...
A skydive is one of the most exciting and unforgettable ways to raise money to support Exeter Deaf Academy and change the lives of Deaf young people.
A Tandem Skydive is an easy and enjoyable way to experience the thrills of skydiving without having to learn how. The exhilarating freefall combined with the peace and tranquillity of the parachute ride makes Tandem Skydiving a unique experience you will never forget.
Raise over £395 and skydive for FREE!
Join us on Saturday 22 July, 2017 or if you can't make this date, book a date that suits you!
Local companies including LV=Exeter, Brend Hotels, Isca Barum Insurance Brokers, RGB Building Supplies and Thomson Reuters have signed up to sponsor paint stations at Children’s Hospice South West’s Rainbow Run, being held at Westpoint Arena near Exeter in June. Naomi Dymond, Corporate Fundraiser at the charity’s Little Bridge House hospice near Barnstaple said: ‘We are thrilled these wonderful local companies have chosen to support us. Their sponsorship is vital to ensuring we can continue to run the event which brings much needed funds into the hospice, and we’d like to say a huge thank...
On Tuesday 2nd May Devonshire Freemasons' Provincial Grand Master the Rt. W. Bro Ian Kingsbury, accompanied by his wife Toni, visited the offices of Devon Air Ambulance in Exeter.
They can be seen here presenting Fundraising Manager Tracy Owen with a certificate representing the donation for £4,000 given by Devonshire Freemasons through the Masonic Charitable Foundation.
This makes a total of £51,000 presented by Devonshire Freemasons through the Freemasons Grand Charity since 2007 and over £110,000 when adding presentations made by individual lodges throughout Devonshire...
New figures released by the British Heart Foundation (BHF) show residents in Devon and Cornwall raised an incredible £298,635 for the charity’s life saving research last year by fundraising in their community. People across Devon and Cornwall have shown they’re all heart, undertaking countless fundraising activities – from the weird to the wonderful – in their unstoppable pursuit to raise urgently needed funds for the BHF’s life saving research. Isaac Page, aged 6, and mum Ria in particular, went above and beyond in their efforts to raise funds last year, as they set about giving up...
Radio Exe will be joining Children’s Hospice South West’s Westpoint Rainbow Run this year. This great family event takes place on Saturday 10th June at its brand new location at the fabulous Westpoint Arena. As well as all the fun of the Rainbow Run, whereby you get showered with powder paint around the 5k course, for 2017 you can also enjoy a full event village with lots of entertainment for the whole family including face-painters and bouncy castles plus music from Radio Exe who are supporting the event. Paul Nero , Managing Director of Radio Exe said: We’re thrilled to be media partners...
The spring flowers in Moretonhampstead gardens Sutton Mead and Mardon must have loved the driest winter for decades.
The colours of the apple blossom, wisteria, rhododendrons and azaleas have never looked better. Both of these four acre gardens will be open in aid of The National Garden Scheme on Friday, Saturday and Sunday 19, 20, 21 May. 2-6pm.
There will be a sale of plants raised in the gardens and delicious homemade teas. Parking is available at both gardens and for anyone wishing to combine their visit with a walk on the moor, dogs on leads are welcome.
The spring flowers in Moretonhampstead gardens Sutton Mead and Mardon must have loved the driest winter for decades.
The colours of the apple blossom, wisteria, rhododendrons and azaleas have never looked better. Both of these four acre gardens will be open in aid of The National Garden Scheme on Friday, Saturday and Sunday 19, 20, 21 May - 2pm-6pm.
There will be a sale of plants raised in the gardens and delicious homemade teas. Parking is available at both gardens and for anyone wishing to combine their visit with a walk on the moor, dogs on leads are welcome.
On Saturday 13th May 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m., W H. Squires & Son (Exwick premises) will be having an open day and an opportunity to ‘Ask the Funeral Director’ any questions you may have – however strange you may think they are! This will be free entry but donations for Hospiscare will be welcomed for Cakes and refreshments.
This will be in conjunction with ‘Dying Matters’ week. Dying Matters is a coalition of over 32,000 people nationwide trying to get more people talking about death, dying and bereavement. As well as ‘Stanley’ our vintage hearse , different types of coffins on...
The theme for this year’s all-female Twilight Walk on Saturday is “Back To The '80s”. And one group of Girls (who) Just Wanna Have Fun will be the assorted group of vets and administrative staff from Corner House Vets in Exmouth. They will also receive support from a very special friend: Ella the Owl, the event mascot! No doubt, she’ll be hoping for a performance of the Birdie Song!
In fact, as Jo Mason Managing Director of Corner House Vets confirms, they have entered a team for the walk for the last two years.
“We’ve been practicing veterinary healthcare for 32 years,”...
