Big Issue vendor Paul Squires talkdl about his ‘pitch’ and what The Big Issue means to him.
Paul always tries to do one good thing every day, be that listening to his customer’s problems or helping the elderly across the road with their shopping.
Find out this and more in this week’s Big Issue My Pitch interview.
Paul sells outside Drake Circus Shopping Centre from...
With Christmas just around the corner, there is an opportunity to support Hospiscare and find a bargain at the ‘Pre-Loved’ sale at Newton Abbot Racecourse on Saturday 14th November.
Hosted by the racecourse’s Conference and Events Manager, Sylvia Fairchild, the event will look to raise funds for Hospiscare to help them continue their amazing work, caring for those who are terminally...
WESC Foundation, a school and college for children, young people and adults with sight loss, is a specialist centre for Visual Impairment. The Exeter-based charity held a sell-out fashion show fundraiser hosted at the Met Office sponsored by ITEC Connect. More than 150 guests descended on the Met Office before being whisked off in chauffer driven limousines courtesy of Mercedes-Benz Exeter to...
Plymouth Independent Visitor & Advocacy Service (PIVAS)
PIVAS covers the whole of Plymouth, recruits, assesses, trains and manages adult volunteers to provide an advocacy service for children and young people at meetings where decisions are being made about them and independent visitor service for children in care. Independent Visitors regularly visit, befriend and advise a child...
Path has received £5,000 to fund tenancy starter packs for homeless people in Devon.
The donation was provided by the Santander Foundation which offers grants to UK registered charities for projects that help disadvantaged people in local communities.
The grant will enable Path to provide basic & essential items for our clients moving into a new home with nothing.
Drake Circus Shopping Centre’s customers help the British Heart Foundation to Bag It. Beat It.
Drake Circus Shopping Centre’s 2015 Bag It. Beat It. stock appeal for The British Heart Foundation (BHF) launched on Wednesday 30th September when the Lord Mayor of Plymouth, Councillor John Mahony, donated the first bag of items. The items will now go on to be sold in BHF shops and help...
The latest, greatest, muddiest cycling challenge of the year is under starter’s orders as St Luke’s Hospice Plymouth makes a last call for the 2015 Tour de Moor.
Hundreds of intrepid mountain bike fans have already signed up for the leisurely 11km, intermediate 30km or a hard 52km off road cycle of mud, sweat and tears on 11 October but registration is about to close.
A major local charity is marking a decade of environmental quality. Paignton Zoo Environmental Park has held the 14001 accreditation since 2005. Living Coasts in Torquay and Newquay Zoo in Cornwall, also parts of the Whitley Wildlife Conservation Trust, which runs Paignton Zoo, have held the standard nearly as long.
The Trust’s Environmental Officer Pete Morgan said: “The ten year...
Paignton Zoo has teamed up with Wollen Michelmore Solicitors to hold Will Week. The event - from 5th to 10th October – is an appropriate one for the Zoo, as the charity has received many significant legacies over the years.
Paignton Zoo fundraiser Jenny Paton: “Our Ape Centre – home to gorillas and orang utans, including babies Tatau and Natalia – was built thanks to a legacy. Another...
As new figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) show the number of drug-related deaths in England and Wales has increased for the second year in a row, drug and alcohol treatment charity Addaction has called for the government to rethink proposed cuts to local authority health spending.
“These tragic figures paint a stark picture of the shifting landscape of drug misuse in...
