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Cllr Duncan Wood joined members of Exeter's WI in the City for a rugby session with Exeter City Comm

Pitch perfect: Football meets rugby in Exeter’s Strive ‘25 takeover

Exeter City Community Trust, the charitable arm of Exeter City Football Club, is stepping into a new sport as it joins a major national initiative to grow women’s rugby in the city ahead of the Women’s Rugby World Cup 2025.

The organisation, which is more used to the beautiful game than the oval ball, is joining with Exeter Chiefs and Exeter City Council as the delivery partner for the Strive ‘25 Rugby Challenge, a national programme aimed at engaging 25,000 women and girls in rugby across host cities. Exeter is one of only eight UK cities which are hosting the Women’s Rugby World...

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The Donkey Sanctuary donates 3,000 Easter Eggs to Sidmouth Foodbank

The Donkey Sanctuary has donated 3,000 packs of small chocolate Easter Eggs to the Sid Valley Food Bank in Sidmouth. The donated eggs will now be given to patients and staff at Sidmouth Hospital, local families who are supported by the Food Bank and key workers throughout the community.

Due to The Donkey Sanctuary Sidmouth being closed to visitors because of the coronaviruses outbreak, the animal welfare charity was left with thousands of eggs that would have been given away to visitors over the Easter weekend. Not wanting to let them go to waste, the charity partnered with Sid...

Freemasons donate £1,655 to Hospiscare

This year part of their annual support of hospices throughout the country. The Provincial Grand Master of Devonshire Rt. W. Bro. Ian Kingsbury can be seen presenting a certificate denoting the £1655 given on behalf of the Devonshire Freemasons and the Masonic Charitable Foundation to Katie Chantler, Head of Fundraising of Hospiscare’s Searle House Hospice in Exeter.

The Masonic Charitable Foundation grants each year £600,000 to the 245 hospices in England and Wales, including £7,635 to seven hospices here in Devon as part of the £13.4 million total given since 1984. This includes £...

'Nourishing' Hospiscare with charity round up

An ongoing fundraising initiative by Nourish Zero Waste has accumulated £1,600 for Hospiscare after customers were encouraged to donate just a few pence in each transaction.

The money will fund 16 visits to a patient in their own home by one of the charity’s clinical nurse specialists enabling patients to stay at home with their loved ones.

Zero waste provisions business Nourish which has shops in Topsham and Magdalen Road has been running a voluntary charity ‘round up’ since opening in March 2018.

Owner Sarah Martin explained: “It’s a simple idea giving customers...

Princesshay announces Families for Children as 2020 Charity of the Year

Princesshay’s 2020 Charity of the Year has been announced as Families for Children. Families for Children is a specialist voluntary adoption agency and charity based in the South West.

The charity provides a range of support services to adoptive families across the region. Support can include; parental training courses, rapid response helpline service, counselling, advice, guidance and signposting.

Ruth Marriott, CEO said “We are delighted to be nominated by Princesshay as their charity of the year 2020. We very much look forward to this opportunity and to working with all...

Health worker prepares to Walk All Over Cancer

Dog lover, Debs Jones is used to getting in her daily steps as part of her job involves meeting GPs and NHS teams every day.

The Devon & Somerset health professional facilitator is part of a Cancer Research UK team, whose role is to support cancer prevention, doctors referrals, and promote healthy lifestyles in the county and the south west.

She is supporting Cancer Research UK’s ‘Walk All Over Cancer’ campaign which asks people to walk 10,000 steps a day, every day in March, and raise money for the charity’s life-saving research.

Debs, from South Molton,...

Paralympic star urges South West swimmers to go for gold

PARALYMPIC swimmer and gold medallist Bethany Firth is calling on people across The South West to take the plunge and sign up for Swimathon 2020.

Bethany is helping to highlight the annual fundraiser which raises money for two charities, Cancer Research UK and Marie Curie.

The swimming star is urging people of all ages and abilities to take part in the sponsored event. It will be taking place at swimming pools in Wiltshire, Somerset, Devon, Cornwall and across the UK.

Bethany clinched three gold medals at the Rio 2016 Paralympics and one gold at the London 2012...

Battersea's Muddy Dog Challenge is back in Exeter

The Muddy Dog challenge is back in Exeter for even more mud, sweat and cheers in 2020 – and to help Battersea care for more abandoned dogs and cats.

The Muddy Dog Challenge, the UK’s biggest obstacle course you can run with your dog, is now in its sixth year, proudly supported by Seresto flea and tick control collar. Dogs and their owners can take part together to raise vital funds for thousands of homeless dogs and cats that come into the animal rescue centre each year, as well as helping those across the country and all over the world.

Participants can enter solo, in a...

Exeter developer helps to raise over £200,000 for charity of the year, Coram Beanstalk

McCarthy and Stone’s team in Exeter, which has a Retirement Living development on Bakers Way, Pinnoc Mews, has helped to raise an incredible £200,000 through its year-long fundraising partnership with national reading charity Coram Beanstalk, achieving twice the target it set itself for the year.

In 2019, McCarthy and Stone announced it had chosen Coram Beanstalk as its charity partner to help improve the outcomes of children who struggle with reading, while promoting the wellbeing benefits of intergenerational volunteering among its nationwide communities. Originally setting...

Headway Devon achieves Gold standard with Investors in People

Local brain injury charity Headway Devon are delighted to announce that we have been awarded the highly prestigious We invest in people, gold accreditation by Investors in People.

Headway Devon has always been an organisation that takes pride in its people, having first registered with Investors in People in 2005. As part of this most recent accreditation Headway Devon was rigorously assessed on a wide range of aspects including leadership, learning and communication.

As part of the assessment process staff were interviewed and asked to complete an anonymous online survey....

Rock2Recovery gets a boost from homebuilders’ Community Fund

An Exmouth-based charity which supports veterans and the serving military is the latest recipient of a charity donation from Barratt Homes and David Wilson Homes.

Rock2Recovery has received £1,000 from the Barratt Homes and David Wilson Homes Community Fund – with the generous donation being used to provide help and support to veterans, serving personnel and their families when they are at their most vulnerable.

The scheme forms part of the five-star housebuilders pledge to strengthen its ties with the areas in which it is building new homes, and has fast become established...

Charities

Pitch perfect: Football meets rugby in Exeter’s Strive ‘25 takeover

The Donkey Sanctuary donates 3,000 Easter Eggs to Sidmouth Foodbank

Freemasons donate £1,655 to Hospiscare

'Nourishing' Hospiscare with charity round up

Princesshay announces Families for Children as 2020 Charity of the Year

Health worker prepares to Walk All Over Cancer

Paralympic star urges South West swimmers to go for gold

Battersea's Muddy Dog Challenge is back in Exeter

Exeter developer helps to raise over £200,000 for charity of the year, Coram Beanstalk

Headway Devon achieves Gold standard with Investors in People

Rock2Recovery gets a boost from homebuilders’ Community Fund

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