Crealy Adventure Park & Resort has raised £10,000 for the WESC Foundation, a specialist day and residential centre for young people and adults with visual impairment including complex needs in Exeter, Devon.
The year-long fundraising campaign, Wheels 4 WESC, aimed to raise funds towards a new minibus which thanks to the success of the partnership has now been purchased. Jon Duckham, Fundraising Manager at WESC, said: “WESC Foundation has had a wonderful fundraising year as chosen charity of Crealy and we can’t thank them enough.
A 3 hour non-stop, charity spinathon will go ahead this Saturday, despite original plans being foiled by the fire at the Exeter Riverside Leisure Centre.
The charity event, which will see participants taking part in three hours of non-stop high intensity ‘spinning’ on static bicycles, is taking place this Saturday (4 March) and was originally scheduled to be held at the Legacy Leisure-run Wonford Sports Centre using spin bikes from the Riverside Leisure Centre.
A total of 28 participants had signed up to the Spinathon, but the recent fire at the Riverside centre meant that...
It's a Knock Out 2017 is ready for entry. Teams of 10 can take part - fancy dress a must - £25 per person. Saturday 2nd September at Topsham Rugby Club. Please join us if you can.
Sight loss charity RNIB are inviting you to join us for this year’s Tea for RNIB on Thursday 23rd March by hosting your own Tea party or cake sale and help support thousands of people living with sight loss in Devon and Cornwall.
All you need to do is ask everyone you know either at work, school, college or even at home to bake something yummy, set a time and place for your tea party and ask everyone who attends to make a small donation to RNIB.
Emily was just one and a half when she was diagnosed with a sight loss condition. RNIB have been a huge part of her life since she...
A charity set up just six years ago to help promote the local community and the vision of people who and work there is today celebrating raising the sum of £1m.
Put together back in 2011 by three rugby directors and three local businessmen, the Exeter Foundation is a city-based charity that has been working tirelessly to bring future prosperity to the people in and around the Devon city.
And since its inception the Exeter Foundation has helped to directly fund over 75 different charities and organisations in a series of wide-ranging projects and schemes.
RGB Building Supplies is delighted to announce it has selected Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW) as its chosen charity and will be fundraising for the cause throughout 2017.
Having had a phenomenal response to its Christmas Present Appeal in aid of CHSW at the end of 2016, when in excess of 250 gifts were donated by RGB customers and staff, the builders merchant is looking forward to continuing its support.
This year RGB staff are taking part in a number of CHSW fundraising activities and will also be holding regular events to boost the amount raised.
Raising funds to improve the lives of older people in Exeter.
It is our 30 year Anniversary celebration this year so we are turning back the clock to 1987 with an 80's Retro Run theme for our March 10K - same great run - lots more fun!
This popular event attracts both experienced runners and those new to running.
The flat course with its City Centre start and finishing at Exeter Quayside is great for a PB or a first 10K.
For more information Tel:01392 202092 or enter online at www.ageukexeter.org.uk
Last year, over 200 staff across 33 branches of Bradleys Estate Agents in Devon, Cornwall and Somerset tackled a range of fundraising activities to raise money for Exeter Deaf Academy.
Inspired by Deaf young people and their achievements, Bradleys pledged to spend a year fundraising for the Academy’s New Build project. In 2019, Exeter Deaf Academy will be relocating from their current site on Topsham Road in Exeter to a groundbreaking purpose-built Academy in Exmouth. The new Deaf Academy will be a world-class facility which will change the lives of Deaf students, bring communities...
This isn’t a typical prison story: instead it’s an amazing achievement by 10 people in HMP Exeter who in just one day rowed the English Channel, ran up Ben Nevis and rode a stage of the Tour de France, raising hundreds of pounds for a local charity.
Two teams of five - a total of eight prisoners and two prison officers - did not leave the city centre jail while doing this task, of course, but instead undertook the gruelling challenges in the gymnasium.
Each of the prisoners who undertook the challenge is a Samaritans volunteer Listener, specially trained to offer emotional...
Burrington Estates, a developer of commercial and residential schemes in the South West, organised a fundraising event on on Friday for World Cancer Day, which fell on Saturday 4th February.
The event was in aid of Cancer Research UK, a charity that means a lot to employees of the company.
On Friday 3rd February, all Burrington Estates employees dressed in pink for the occasion and organised a Fundraising Raffle. They had a donation box from Cancer Research UK, in their reception at their head office, Dean Clarke House located in Southernhay and encouraged all employees and...
