Would you like to walk on fire? Take your chance at an MS Society Firewalk, where you'll walk 20 feet across burning embers.
On the night, participants will undergo a two hour training session to prepare them for the challenge of stepping onto embers burning at around 1200 degrees Fahrenheit.
Event details The registration fee is £25 per person, and we ask you to raise a minimum £125 to help support people with MS.
Once you have signed up, you'll be sent a free fundraising pack. Places are limited, so book today to avoid disappointment.
On the 27th September the annual Northcott Beaton Insurance Brokers Golf Day took place at Woodbury Park. This year the chosen charity for the event was The Exeter Foundation. The main aim to the Exeter Foundation is to provide the City of Exeter and its surrounding areas (The Greater Exeter) with a ‘Civic Trust’ that will promote our community and pursue the vision of people who live and work there. The Foundation will act as a fundraising body with a commitment to the future prosperity of Greater Exeter, and also as a vehicle for promoting collective civic pride. The Exeter Foundation...
The New Ottregians, a theatre company based in Ottery St Mary, have presented a cheque for £5,300 to Hospiscare, which provides end-of-life care for local patients and their families, following their incredibly successful production of Me and My Girl at the King’s School, in July.
Helena and Toni Williams-Pugh, who run the theatre company, made the presentation to Margery Whittington, from the local Hospiscare volunteer group, and Nick Agg-Manning, a trustee of the charity, which provides end-of-life care for local patients and their families.
Staff from a local fire protection services company have come up with a novel way of raising money for charity - instead of preventing a fire from happening, they will be walking across it. Firewatch South West, which is based in Newton Abbot, has joined forces with the West of England School and College, its charity of the year, to hold a firewalk.
The event, which will raise funds through sponsorship for the charity that provides specialist education and care to blind and partially sighted children and young people, is to be held at Double Locks, in Exeter, on Friday 26 October...
Five physiotherapists from Exeter Physio were on hand at the FORCE Cancer Charity and Francis Clark running event held at Powderham Castle.
The team set up their beds to treat any injuries or aches and pains picked up during the 10k, 5k and family events.
It was the third year the physiotherapy practice in Lower Summerlands had supported the event.
Partner Hugh Jenkins said: “This event brings in a lot of money for a very worthy cause and we thoroughly enjoy being a part of it. It is also very satisfying to see so many of our patients, who...
The inaugural Business Expo ‘Business Gives Back’ held at Exeter Racecourse in aid of Devon Air Ambulance Trust (DAAT) during ‘National Air Ambulance Week’ is confirmed as a resounding success by organisers, thebestofexeter.
More than 400 delegates had the opportunity to visit local business exhibition stands and seminars presented by key-note speakers chaired by Derek Philips, with one-to-one business clinics in The Business Advice Centre. The day kicked-off with an early morning Big Breakfast chaired by Nick Agg-Manning, while Exeter Chamber of Commerce hosted a...
Lyn Gould, above, with her husband Alan, has dedicated her life to helping orphans in China.
Here she explains, in her own words, why she has chosen to take such a difficult path in life...
People ask me how I can work with dying children in China - they say they couldn’t do it because they would just cry all the time. Do they think I don’t care? Do they think I am not affected by what I see every day? But I can’t not do it.
Everything in China is about money - there is no free health service. Even if a child needs surgery to help them to live, if the family can...
The issue of women, or the lack of them, occupying top spots in UK business has been in the spotlight this week. On Monday the Financial Times reported that it had seen draft EU legislation proposing to force Europe’s listed companies to reserve 40% of non-executive director positions for women or face fines or other sanctions. On Tuesday the Evening Standard sponsored a debate on the issue headed by a panel of successful professional women, including Cherie Booth QC, and Helena Morrissey, the chief executive of the global investment company, Newton Investment.
