Charities

Military teenagers who have parents serving in the British Armed Forces were brought together in Devon this weekend by the charity Little Troopers.

The residential break at Barton Hall, near Torquay, was part of the charity’s ‘All Together’ deployment club to support young people while their military parents are deployed overseas or due to deploy soon. Teenagers from all three...

Lifeworks College students have been proud to take part in the creation of a new Wildlife Garden in Borough Park at the Totnes Community Tennis Club. Over the past few weeks, they have been working alongside many other volunteers at the club and the wider Totnes community including, John Callaway, Graham Hayman, Paul Thomas and Francis Porter who have put in a staggering amount of work. There...

This month has been extremely busy for Lifeworks College as we approach the end of the academic year. Last week, 15 Lifeworks students attends a residential at the Calvert Trust in the Lake District . For many students, this was the first time away from home, so it isn’t just the activities that helped to develop their skills. Travelling over 300 miles, eating together, sharing a bedroom and...

A sponsored step challenge which raises vital funds for leading charity Diabetes UK returns this summer – and a call has gone out for people from Devon to sign up.

The One Million Step Challenge, sponsored by Fitbit, runs between 1 July and 30 September and tasks participants with completing a massive one million steps over three months – around 10,000 a day. Participants can take on...