Charities

Westbank’s Community Allotment made accessible to all thanks to Kier’s volunteers

Manpower and materials donated to Westbank Community Health and Care by the Kier Group have transformed the charity’s Community Allotment at Exminster into a space that’s accessible to everyone.

Eleven local volunteers from Kier’s Natural Resources Nuclear & Networks division recently worked over a total of about 4 days to create a tarmac access ramp, level the ground and lay a concrete pathway to make the allotment accessible to wheelchair users. The monetary value of the work amounts to approximately £7,000, including labour and materials.

Kerry Fenton of Kier NRNN...

Vodafone joins forces with Good Things Foundation and Mencap

Authored by David Banks
Posted: Sun, 05/02/2021 - 11:41pm

Vodafone has announced it is working with the social change charity Good Things Foundation to connect digitally excluded families in some of the most disadvantaged areas of the UK.

Vodafone has provided unlimited data SIMs and dongles to connect over 2,500 people, including almost 150 families and adults with disabilities in the South West, enabling them to access support services, online education and employment opportunities. The Good Things Foundation ‘Connecting Families’ programme crucially includes specialist one-on-one support to ensure that, in addition to devices and...

Bensons turns “preloved beds” into £7.1 million for British Heart Foundation

Free collection service for unwanted beds and furniture helps save lives

Finding new homes for preloved beds and bedroom furniture has helped to save lives by raising more than £7.1 million for the British Heart Foundation thanks to customers of Bensons for Beds.

Bensons customers can donate unwanted bed frames, bases, mattresses and bedroom furniture to the British Heart Foundation (BHF) which sells them through its network of 190 home stores. Proceeds go to help life-saving research into heart and circulatory diseases.

In the past year the Bensons-BHF partnership has...

Hundreds of CDs will be on sale at the FORCE Shop music fayre

FORCE Shop to hold music fayre

Calling all music lovers The FORCE Cancer Charity Shop in Heavitree is having a CD fayre on Sunday May 9. The whole of the shop floor will be dedicated to all the fabulous CDs that have been gathered while lockdown forced all but essential retail to close. “We have rock, pop, indie, 80s, 90s - you name it we probably have it,” said shop manager Anna Heard. “This is a collection of the best quality CDs that our lovely volunteers Nik and Kevin have been gathering and normally take along a small selection to the Exeter Record Fayre at the Corn Exchange. “We look forward to attending the next...

Veterans With Dogs invites supporters to take part in Captain Tom 100 special fundraising event

Following the outpouring of heartfelt messages since the death of Captain Sir Tom Moore on 2 February, his family pledged to celebrate his life with an event that everyone, in the UK and around the world, could be involved in. That event is the Captain Tom 100 and Veterans With Dogs is proud to be inviting our supporters to take part.

Veterans With Dogs , like many other charities, has been hugely impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic. It’s had a catastrophic effect, with the cancellation of thousands of fundraising events and the loss of billions in income.

Captain Tom 100...

Dance in your pants to help men with cancer!

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Tue, 04/20/2021 - 11:49pm

A South West charity is calling on people in Devon to dance, sing and play music in their pants to raise money to help local men with testicular cancer.

It’s the “Men In Pants” campaign from It’s in the Bag Cancer Support. The campaign is running throughout April, which is Testicular Cancer Awareness Month.

Supporters, known as “Testicle Defenders”, post a video of themselves doing the special Men In Pants dance, or singing/playing the Men In Pants song, or both, and donate £3 to the charity.

They’re hoping to make the 30-second dance into the next viral craze...

3,000 mile solo row across the Atlantic Ocean

3,000 mile solo row across the Atlantic Ocean

Good day to you all.

In December 2023 I am setting off to row 3,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean solo.

I will be rowing 2 hours on and 2 hours off 24 hours a day for up to 90 days.

Previous rowers have suffered hallucinations from sleep deprivation and I am sure I will have salt sores on my hands, feet and derrière. In last year's challenge several boats capsized (although the boat is designed to self right) and some had their hulls pierced by Blue Marlin ( swordfish) hunting Tuna.

I am using this platform to raise monies for my two chosen charities...

FoodCycle will be serving up free meals to The Exeter community

Food charity to launch new project providing free meals to the Exeter community

FoodCycle , the charity that fights food poverty and loneliness will be serving up free meals to the community through their Project, FoodCycle Exeter which will transition into a Cook & Collect service on 27th April.

Serving up free takeaway meals every Tuesday from 6:30pm to 7:30pm this vital service aims to provide food and conversation to local communities across the country. With the additional aim of reducing food waste, FoodCycle volunteers create nutritious meals from surplus food. The meals are open to all, and guests range from low-income families, people affected...

Exeter’s CLIC Sargent charity shop to this week and urgently needs donations

The UK’s leading cancer charity for children and young people, CLIC Sargent , is calling on Exeter’s residents to come out and support its shop as they open their doors again on Wednesday 14 April , following the national lockdown.

The charity shop in Exeter (Unit 11, St Thomas Centre Cowick Street EX4 1DG ) has been closed since the end of last year and shop managers are now looking forward to welcoming back Exeter’s bargain hunters.

They have put in place a range of safety measures to protect their customers, volunteers and staff from Covid-19 including: limiting the...

Support Devon Air Ambulance with the Captain Tom 100 Challenge

Support Devon Air Ambulance with the Captain Tom 100 Challenge

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Mon, 04/12/2021 - 9:58am

Devon Air Ambulance are proudly supporting the Captain Tom 100Campaign to honour an extraordinary gentleman that touched our hearts and inspired millions of people across the world.

Your local air ambulance was touched, as were many, by the pure dedication and commitment that Captain Tom gave to raising vital funds at the height of the pandemic. The Pilots and clinical teams of Devon Air Ambulance work alongside NHS emergency services and were well aware of the difference that this 99-year-old Yorkshire man was making to the NHS workforce not just financially, but motivationally...

RGB Building Supplies has raised over £8k for Devon Air Ambulance and Cornwall Air Ambulance Trust

RGB raises over £8,000 for air ambulance charities

RGB Building Supplies is delighted to have raised a fantastic £8,400 for Devon Air Ambulance and Cornwall Air Ambulance Trust over the last 12 months.

The support RGB received for its fundraising efforts was overwhelming despite the COVID-19 pandemic having affected how its branches operate. The money was raised from the sale of RGB’s ‘Love where you live’ charity calendar, donations to its branches and the sale of promotional ‘bulk bags’. The bags are used to carry large quantities of aggregates, such as sand, crushed stone and gravel, and RGB had pledged to donate 25p from the...

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