Charities

A sponsored swimming challenge which raises vital funds for Diabetes UK returns this spring – and a call has gone out for people from the south-west to sign up.

Swim22 runs between 22 March and 22 June and involves swimming a total of 22 miles – the same distance as the English Channel. Participants can take on the challenge at their own pace, anywhere they like, accumulating the...

Trevi, the leading women's charity in Devon, are delighted to announce that their Daffodil Family Centre has been awarded a 'Good' Ofsted Rating on its very first inspection.

The Daffodil Family Centre, which opened its doors in early 2020, is a national parenting assessment centre based in Plymouth. It offers a strength-based parenting assessment that aims to support the parent to...

Falmouth-based digital marketing agency, Peaky Digital, is partnering with Go Beyond as its charity of the year.

Peaky Digital will be supporting the Buckfastleigh-based children’s charity by providing a day’s worth of digital marketing services each month. The agency will be supporting with a range of services including Social Media, SEO and Google Ads.

Go beyond provides...

A young man who was diagnosed with cancer at just 21 years old took part in a charity boxing match for his friend who also had the condition - but he did not live to see him compete.

Jamie English, now 24, was diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma three weeks after his mentor of almost a decade, Dave Ireland, had been given just six months to live.

But Jamie, a plasterer, did not...