Hospiscare

COSTIGAN Gerrard Lambert

Passed away peacefully surrounded by his family aged 84 years on 1 September 2013.

Loving husband of June, dearest Dad of Lita and Neil, father-in-law of Neil and Sylvia, loving Grandad to all his many Grandchildren and Great Grandchildren. His wonderful smile, laughter and loving nature will be sorely missed by everyone who knew him.

Funeral Service Wednesday 11 September Exeter Crematorium 12.15pm St Peter's Chapel.

Please wear or carry something yellow.

Donations in lieu of flowers to Hospiscare by retiring collection or c/o

M. Sillifant &...

Mole Avon & Crediton Milling raise money for Hospiscare

Authored by Hospiscare
Posted: Tue, 05/28/2013 - 11:42am

To help celebrate Mole Avon Trading Limited’s 40th anniversary and their Ruby Appeal for Hospiscare, the company teamed up with Crediton Milling and together have raised £1,241 for the local charity.

During a four week period at Mole Avon’s retail branches in Axminster, Crediton and Okehampton for every bag of Layers Mash or Layers Pellets sold 50p would be donated to Hospiscare.

Crediton Milling, based at Fordton, Crediton is one of the few remaining family owned and run independent feed mills in the Westcountry and the have been supplying animal compound feed to Mole Avon...

Hospiscare Open gardens - Sidmouth

Event Date: 
18/05/2013 - 2:00pm
Venue: 
12 Sidlands, Sidmouth

This secluded 0.5 acre garden is open to visit for the whole weekend.

Trees including eucryphia listed in Sidmouth Aboretum. Shrubs, herbaceous plants, alpines, roses and vegetables in raised beds. Also interesting sculptures and wood carvings.

Open 2pm-5pm, admission £2 and refreshments available. Wheelchair access limited. Dogs to be kept on leads.

Directions: On A357 Sidford to Sidmouth road, approx 500 yards after The Volunteer Inn, turn right up Victoria road through Glebelands to Sidlands. Also pedestrian access up lane from Station road opposite the high...

Hospiscare branches out to caring for the environment

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Fri, 04/12/2013 - 10:54am

Exeter charity Hospiscare, which provides dedicated expert care and support for local people with a terminal diagnosis, has now added helping the environment to its CV after installing a Biomass boiler through funding from the ScottishPower Green Energy Trust.

The charity, which has been providing care and support to patients and families for 30 years in Devon, has replaced its outdated gas boiler heating system with a modern and environmentally friendly biomass wood pellet system after being granted £25,000 of funding.

With annual running costs reaching 5million pounds a...

Hospiscare Open Garden: Andrew’s Corner, Belstone

Event Date: 
28/04/2013 - 2:30pm
Venue: 
Andrew’s Corner, Belstone, Okehampton

Andrew’s Corner, Belstone, Okehampton

A 1.5 acre wildlife friendly garden set 1,000ft up on northern edge of Dartmoor with views of the Skaigh Valley. Trees, shrubs, rhododendrons and magnolias, underplanted with spring flowers.

Children's trails, pond, organic vegetable garden and chickens. Plants for sale and refreshments available.

Open 2.30pm-5.30pm, entry £3.50. Wheelchair access is limited. Dogs to be kept on leads.

Directions: From East of Okehampton follow signs for Belstone. On entering village turn left signposted Skaigh. Follow signs for garden...

Christmas charity auction in aid of Hospiscare

Event Date: 
18/12/2012 - 6:30pm
Venue: 
gloss-Art Exeter, 1 Barnfield Crescent, Exeter

gloss-Art Exeter are holding a Christmas charity auction in aid of Hospiscare, which is kindly sponsored by Shipman Financial Planning.

We try and do something every year to help raise money for this fantastic charity and this year we are auctioning off 20x20cm pieces of original art.

Tickets are just £10 with 50% all ticket sales and 20% of all sales on the night going to Hospiscare.

6.30pm-9pm, bidding starts from just £10.

Visit www.glossgallery.co.uk or call Lucinda on 01392 278522 for more information.

University team members head for the coast

Authored by Hospiscare
Posted: Mon, 11/05/2012 - 11:26am

As if spending all day on their feet working as part of Exeter University’s campus services team wasn’t enough, Wayne Hill and Mark Fabris are tackling a sponsored walk from Exeter Quay to Exmouth on Saturday 10th November to raise funds for Hospiscare.

Wayne, a committed supporter of the charity, which provides end-of-life care for local patients and their families, says he is doing the walk because he cares passionately about the service they provide.

“I have had family and friends pass away from cancer and have found everyone at Hospiscare to be so...

Hospiscare's Diamond Champion happy to help

Authored by Hospiscare
Posted: Mon, 11/05/2012 - 8:54am

When the letter from the WRVS landed on her doormat, Mary Bolshaw, from Honiton, almost dropped it straight into the recycling with some leaflets. But something made her open it - and to her surprise she discovered she had been appointed one of the charity’s 60 Diamond Champions from across the South and South West of England, an area stretching from Cornwall to Oxfordshire.

The WRVS celebrated the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee by searching for the UK’s Diamond Champions - older people (over the age of 60) who give their time to...

Hospiscare sets Guinness World Record for cream tea

Volunteers and staff from Hospiscare have eaten their way into the record books after 403 people sat down to a cream tea in the Great Hall at the University of Exeter, beating the previous Guinness World Record of 334.

The charity, which provides end-of-life care for local patients and their families, is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year with a series of special events and the tea party, which was generously hosted by the University, was the idea of Paula Lawford and Jessica Macan, of Exeter Friends of Hospiscare, and took six months of planning.

“The volunteers...

Theatre company’s bumper cheque for Hospiscare

The New Ottregians, a theatre company based in Ottery St Mary, have presented a cheque for £5,300 to Hospiscare, which provides end-of-life care for local patients and their families, following their incredibly successful production of Me and My Girl at the King’s School, in July.

Helena and Toni Williams-Pugh, who run the theatre company, made the presentation to Margery Whittington, from the local Hospiscare volunteer group, and Nick Agg-Manning, a trustee of the charity, which provides end-of-life care for local patients and their families.

“The amount of money raised...

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