Enhanced Hospiscare services, including new nurse led clinic, have come to Ottery St Mary and surrounding areas, thanks to £50,000 of funding from the Ottery St Mary & District League of Friends . The launch was celebrated in the Sandhill Rooms at Ottery St Mary Hospital on 8th January with members of the local healthcare community. Adrian Rutter, Chair of Ottery St Mary & District League of Friends says: “When we asked the GPs of Coleridge Medical Centre what they saw as the healthcare priorities for the people of our town and villages, their answer was quick and clear; dementia...
COMMUNITY kindness is being harnessed to help a charity bring Christmas comfort to scores of suicide bereaved families across Devon and Cornwall.
This year’s Operation Christmas Hamper will be the largest in the history of Pete’s Dragons.
The launch of the drive was met with a wave of generous support at Tesco in Exmouth and Sainsbury’s in Ottery St Mary when shoppers gifted trolley-loads of goods and hundreds of pounds.
Donations of gifts, food and festive items are being sought by the cause as it strives to support people struggling to deal with the loss of a...
The Family Law Company has announced that it will be supporting leading local advice charity Citizens Advice Exeter over the coming year.
The company’s branches in Exeter, Plymouth and Taunton will all be fundraising for the charity, through events such as skittles, bake offs and cream teas.
Donna Hart, a Director of the law firm and Trustee for Citizens Advice Exeter was instrumental in the choice of the charity. She said:
“I have been a Trustee at Citizens Advice Exeter since January 2015. Many people who are turning to Citizens Advice for help have family-related...
Citizens Advice Devon is urging local organisations which support or work with benefits claimants to ensure their staff and volunteers are fully up to speed with the new Universal Credit system as it continues its roll-out across the South West. This comes as Citizens Advice report a 50% or more increase in benefits enquiries in areas where universal credit has already been rolled out.
Universal Credit combines six benefits into one single payment, including Jobseeker’s Allowance and Working Tax Credits. It is currently being rolled out across the UK, and, by the end of September...
Exeter Choral Society (formerly Whipton Choral Society) was founded in 1943, when Exeter was a garrison town. Now celebrating our 75th year, we are curating an exhibition of the life and times of the choir.
Find out about the lives of early choir members, the fun and drama of choir life, what we do today and our plans for the future. If you are a former choir member or have had an association with us, please contact us to share your memories via http://www.exeterchoral.co.uk/contact-us.html .
This free exhibition will be open to the public on Saturday 13 October 2018 at St...
Devon Mammal Group is holding a charity auction on the evening of Thursday 29th March. They are raising money for the Devon Harvest Mouse Project – a citizen science project that is looking at the distribution of the harvest mouse (Micromys minutus) across the county. The surveys are conducted over the winter months, looking for the abandoned summer breeding nests, when they are much easier to spot. Over the last few months Devon Mammal group have searched across Devon and have trained over 100 people in the survey techniques.
Now they are looking to move the Project on to the next...
Free From February is the 28-day ‘give it up' challenge from CEDA who in 2018 are celebrating their 30th anniversary.
Going free from one of your biggest vices is based on research that if you can stop doing something for 28-days, you are five times more likely to be able to cut it out or reduce it for good.
CEDA is inviting people to go ‘free from’ whatever they choose and get sponsored for doing so.
CEDA Marketing Manager Craig Bowden said “Free From February gives people the opportunity to challenge themselves to give up something they will find difficult…. It...
Local brain injury charity Headway Devon is proud to have joined a national scheme that aims to prevent people falling victim to scams.
Friends Against Scams is an initiative run by National Trading Standards which aims to protect and prevent people from becoming victims of scams by empowering communities to "Take a Stand Against Scams".
As part of the scheme all Headway Devon staff are being offered training in recognising scams and supporting people to avoid becoming victims of fraud.
Ruth Wells, Chief Executive of Headway Devon, said: “Scams affect millions of...
Exeter-based media agency, Aquamarine Media, is holding a Harvest Festival at the Generator, to raise food donations and money for local charities, Exeter Foodbank and St Petrock’s.
The Harvest Festival is ongoing throughout October and a harvest basket is being filled with tins of food by local business people and Aquamarine team members at their Generator office at Exeter Quay.
The Bing accredited media agency that offers services in PPC (pay-per-click advertising), Content, and Social media, is also holding a ‘Bake-off’ style bake sale at 1pm on the 27th October at the...
Join us on Sunday 15th of October 2017 at the Custom House Visitor Centre in Exeter Quay where we will start our 10 mile walk along the Exe Estuary trail to Exmouth. This beautiful walk along the river, takes you all the way to the sea and has some spectacular views. It’s also relatively flat and suitable therefore for the entire family – so why not bring everyone along and enjoy a day out whilst raising funds for Bloodwise, the blood cancer research charity?
The walk will have a midway stop at the Puffing Billy in Exton where you can stop and enjoy some refreshments before...
