Charities

Opticians join forces with Exmouth Food Bank

AS THE cost-of-living crisis increases, conscientious colleagues at Specsavers Exmouth are collecting food for local people in need.

Staff from the store are donating items to the collection and are asking members of the public to support the community campaign.

All donations will go to the Exmouth Food Bank, which was set up 10 years ago by a group of local churches. Its...

Two staff members from Guide Dogs demonstrate how to guide someone up a set of steps. They are outdo

Zoo teams up with Guide Dogs to help visitors

Guide Dogs and Dartmoor Zoological Society are delighted to announce a new pilot project, aimed at improving the customer experience for visitors who have a vision impairment.

This July, 22 members of staff and volunteers from the Zoo have received expert training and advice from Guide Dogs’ My Sighted Guide service.

Guide Dogs is currently piloting this new partner model, in...

Redrow Supports the Okehampton and District Guide Dogs Fundraising Group

Redrow has provided a generous donation to The Okehampton and District Guide Dogs Fundraising Group, who work in partnership with Guide Dogs South West.

Established in 1934, Guide Dogs is a longstanding association which provides mobility for the blind and partially sighted. Their primary research areas are in canine science and behavioural science, the charity taking equal care in...

Bikers take on challenge to find brain tumour cure

A biker from Devon is preparing to ride more than 1,000 miles in three days in memory of his best friend’s wife who died of a brain tumour.

Stuart Morrissey from Plymouth will take to the roads on his 125cc motorcycle, stopping off at 14 of the country’s vehicle museums along the way. The challenge, which will see him cover 1,100 miles in just three days, is inspired by Christine...

Devon Mum walking the 117-mile Two Moors Way inspired by her son’s brain tumour diagnosis 

Hannah Adams from Tiverton is taking on the gruelling Two Moors Way walking 117 miles over 5 days. Starting in Wembury on the South coast of Dartmoor she will cross mid Devon and finish in Lynmouth on the North coast of Exmoor five days later.

Hannah is doing this to raise much needed funds for research into brain tumours. Her son, Barney, was diagnosed with an ependymoma brain...

Sign up for Step out and help Spot the signs of Leukaemia

Participants across the country are being invited to sign up to the Leukaemia Care Step Out Challenge for Spot Leukaemia, which launches this September.

The aim is to move as far as you can between 1st and 30th September and raise as much as you can - there’s no minimum limit. To take part you can walk, run, cycle or run and set whatever distance you want to. Once signed up, all you...

Partially sighted Devon woman is walking, running or cycling 15 miles every day for 1,000 days to raise money for Blind Veterans UK

A partially sighted woman from Devon will be walking, running or cycling 15 miles a day for 1,000 days to raise money for Blind Veterans UK, the national charity for vision-impaired ex-Service men and women.

Laura Cartmill, 31 and from Brixham, will be completing the challenge between October this year and July 2025. By the end of the 1,000 days she will have travelled 15,000 miles...

Join the Devon Air Amble Across Devon - from your doorstep!

Devon Air Ambulance is celebrating 30 years of service this year, and supporters are signing up to undertake a ‘virtual’ tour of beautiful Devon to uncover a little of the charity's history – and future - through storytelling milestones.

Between 1 August and 30 September 2022, supporters are undertaking the ‘Devon Air Amble’ simply by adding their normal daily steps to a route-...

Derriford team to take on Snowdon for charity

Nine members of staff from University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust will be taking on the Snowdon Challenge in July to raise money for the charity, Sands.

Colleagues from the Ocean Suite at Derriford hospital have decided to trek up Wales biggest mountain, Snowdon, in just one day to raise money for Sands, the leading stillbirth and neonatal death charity in the UK.

The Ocean...

Every Little Helps’ as armed forces charity collects at Tesco

Armed Forces charity Help for Heroes has supported more than 1,370 veterans and their families in Devon since its inception in 2007, and, with demand for its services increasing, it is, once more, appealing to the Great British Public for support.

With more than 90 per cent of its income coming from the public via donations and fundraising, its upcoming Tesco national collection...

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