Neighbouring businesses in Marsh Barton met at the Hospiscare Enterprise Centre (HEC) on January 14 for a cheque presentation after supporting the local charity’s 12 Days of Christmas campaign.
The 12 Days of Christmas saw eight businesses, from units surrounding the HEC on Trusham Road, come together to raise money for the charity on a chosen date between December 13 and 24. The businesses were asked to raise money in any way they chose from raffling a hamper to holding a mufti day or just by making a donation to Hospiscare. More than £900 was raised for the campaign, which not...
Two friends from Exeter, Suzanne Lovelace and Sadie Evans, landlady at The Royal Oak, St Thomas, are taking on the ‘Channel Challenge’ throughout February to raise money for local charity, Hospiscare.
The English Channel stretches 21 miles between Dover and Calais and the friends will be swimming the equivalent distance at local pool The Riverside, covering 1,408 lengths each.
Suzanne and Sadie, who met whilst swimming at The Riverside, struck up a friendship and when Suzanne asked Sadie if she wanted to join her challenge, she couldn’t say no.
An Exeter-based business has announced that Hospiscare will be their charity of year for 2014.
Management training and coaching business, Crisp Professional Development (CPD), recently announced their partnership with the charity, donating £5 to Hospiscare for every person booked onto an open course in 2014. Managing Director Shaun Durham said the CPD team is looking forward to supporting a local charity that does such valuable work within the community.
He said: “We are very pleased to have chosen Hospiscare for our charity of the year for 2014. As a local charity...
Exeter Chamber of Commerce helped eight local charities raise over £900 at their Christmas Charity Auction Lunch last week, held at the Mercure Exeter Southgate Hotel.
Paul Nero, chief executive of Radio Exe was the auctioneer on the day, taking bids from over 100 business people that were in attendance. Items for auction included an Exeter Chiefs Rugby weekend experience for two, in aid of St Loyes Foundation, and a beautiful framed print of the cover photo of the BBC Radio Devon Countryside Calendar from Devon Community Foundation.
Local charity, Hospiscare is embarking on its first overseas challenge, taking people off the beaten track into one of the most unusual and exotic, natural environments on the planet – the Sahara Desert.
Hospiscare has teamed up with tour operator Different Travel, who specialise in overseas charity challenges and adventure holidays, to organise a five day, ATOL protected, Sahara Trek which runs from November 6 to 11, 2014.
Hospiscare Running and Challenge Fundraiser Celia Wilkinson said: “We are delighted to be partnering with Different Travel to offer the trip of a...
Join us at the St Paul's Church for this special service, where Hospiscare's Book of Memories will be available to view, and will remain until Twelfth Night.
This uplifting service of remembrance is open to all, and includes carols, readings and prayers.
The Tree of Light will be shining with lights in dedication on the Cathedral Green in Exeter until 6 January.
Hospiscare is thrilled to have been nominated as one of the three charities to gain from Chelsea Building Society’s ‘Charity Choice’ Scheme. Members of Chelsea Building Society and the general public are able to visit the South Street, Exeter branch, until 8 November to vote for their favourite local charity to receive the Charitable Foundation’s support.
The charity which receives the most votes will receive a donation of £500, the second £300 and the third £200.
Mike Tate, Manager of Chelsea Building Society in Exeter explained, ‘The charities benefitting are all...
The University of Exeter Students’ Guild and local charity Hospiscare are calling for adventurous families to join them for their ‘Haunted Halloween Hobble’ on the evening of Halloween, this Thursday 31 October.
The University’s team of student volunteers will be dressing up to create a spooky walk around the Streatham Campus. The event offers a family friendly alternative to trick or treating and is set to be an enjoyable spooky occasion. There will be lots of activities to get involved with including apple bobbing and a fancy dress parade with prizes for the best outfit.
A Hospiscare hairdresser is set to complete a 450km cycle challenge in blistering temperatures next month after raising more than £4k for the local charity.
58 year-old Lesley Weeks has spent the past year fundraising to take part in the challenge which takes place across Vietnam and Cambodia next month.
Lesley has worked for Hospiscare for more than two decades and this will be the fourth adventure she has embarked upon for the charity.
Exmouth based Lesley has transformed her life through her charitable expeditions going from a ‘couch potato’ to a fit and active...
Staff from Marks & Spencer in Exeter gave Hospiscare patients an important gift recently after choosing the charity as its Store Charity of the Year.
15 hand-held, battery operated fans were delivered to patients at the Exeter hospice, to not only help them keep cool, but also to help with symptom control.
Hospiscare Ward Manager Petra Osborne said: “The fans are particularly helpful for patients who suffer from breathlessness, panic or anxiety as they can be used in conjunction with strategies taught to patients to control their symptoms.”
