Bob Rutter, aged 76, and his wife Sue have lived in Seaton for the past 18 years. After a 40 year career as a pub landlord, Bob was enjoying an active and sociable retirement playing bowls and golf when he was diagnosed with a rare cancer, lymphoma in the brain.
Shortly after receiving the devastating news, Bob was referred to local charity Hospiscare and has been attending weekly sessions at Kings House Day Hospice in Honiton. Here, Bob has met and made friends with other people who are going through a similar experience to him. One of those friends was a patient called Gill. Bob...
The New Year is a time for reflection and making resolutions, so what better time to answer the call from national charity Hearing Dogs for Deaf People, who are actively seeking volunteers in Exeter to help train adorable VIPs (Very Important Puppies) on their path to becoming fully-fledged hearing dogs. One in six people in the UK suffer with some form of hearing loss and the effects can be devastating. The lack of independence, loss of confidence, reduced self-esteem and feelings of anxiety often lead to loneliness, isolation and often depression. However, fully qualified hearing dogs...
EXETER boys and girls are being invited to get muddy for a good cause - at a brand new event from Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life. The city has been chosen to host Race for Life Pretty Muddy Kids for the first time at Westpoint Arena, Exeter on Saturday 21 July. Pretty Muddy Kids is a new exciting obstacle course designed just for children - with added mud, thrills and spills. From scramble nets and space hoppers to mud chutes and muddy pools, children will face a range of fun and muddy obstacles to crawl under, clamber over and charge through. The Race for Life family of events also...
Put your best foot forward! Don’t delay and sign up for the Men’s Walk 2018 – that’s the message from Hospiscare. The 2017 event was a sell-out success, so would-be walkers are being urged to sign up as soon as possible so as not to miss out on a place on next year’s walk.
The walk, which will take place on Saturday, 17 March in Exeter, will follow a new 7-mile route starting and ending at the Double Locks canal-side pub. To keep spirits high there will be live entertainment and refreshments along the way.
Following the walk, participants will enjoy a pint and a pasty and...
Men! Join forces and tackle a 7 mile sponsored walk which returns to the Double Locks pub, supporting your local hospice charity, Hospiscare. Starting and finishing from The Double Locks pub, you will walk a new linear route along the picturesque Exe Valley Way and River Exe to the Millers Crossing Bridge and back, with live music and refreshments along the way. You will be welcomed back to Double Locks with a pint and a pasty while you enjoy the Six Nations England V Ireland match shown on 6 large LED screens, within our EXCLUSIVE & FURTHER EXTENDED Hospiscare Six Nations bar. In...
Christmas has come early for two local Devon based charities, The Mede and Dawlish Garden’s Trust, following the successful charity prize draw at Exeter Chamber’s Exeter Business Dinner in November. Guest speakers of the event, Charlie and AJ Courtenay (the Earl and Countess of Devon), nominated two local charities to receive a split share of the £5290 raised.
Charlie Courtenay, Earl of Devon said: “We were honoured to address the Exeter Chamber’s guests and are thrilled this resulted in such generous donations to Powderham’s charities-of-the-year. The Mede provides excellent...
As 2017 draws to a close, the year when local charity Hospiscare celebrated its 35th Anniversary, Dr John Rutter who worked for the organisation in the early 80s is back working there again now at the age of 69. He reflects on how it all started and looks back on his own career to share his thoughts on caring for patients with a terminal illness.
Dr John, who is married and has five daughters, has always lived in Exeter. He recalls: “Back in the 1980s I was caring for the father of one of my friends. He was dying of cancer. I remember visiting him throughout the night and...
Over the last three years, officers and staff across Devon & Cornwall Police have participated in and organised fundraising activities which have benefitted both local and national charities.
The funds, now totalling over £30,000, were raised in a wide variety of ways, from the purchase of epaulettes, to charity bake sales and even a ‘guess the weight of the ferret’ competition. This is, of course, only part of the charitable endeavours of colleagues who both on and off duty raise huge sums for local and national charities.
Hospiscare has been getting in the Christmas spirit with the help of children from across Exeter, Mid and East Devon.
Children from the Exwick Ark Nursery, Little MarVals in Pinhoe, Little Dragons at Clyst St George, Exeter Junior School and Kiddi Caru have been busy making snowflakes to decorate the charity’s Warehouse Store in Marsh Barton.
Staff at the shop were looking for new ideas to decorate their window for Christmas and were delighted with the sparkly, colourful decorations the children presented to them. Community Fundraiser Susie Healey said,
The staff from the South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust has been supporting CLIC Sargent since 2008 raising £23,927.52 for young lives vs cancer through the Pennies from Heaven Scheme.
Over 4000 members of staff from the trust took part in the Pennies from Heaven Scheme, which meant that their wages were rounded down to the nearest pound with the pennies being donated to CLIC Sargent. CLIC Sargent is the UK’s leading provider of support for young cancer patients under the age of 25, and their families.
A spokesperson for the South Western Ambulance Service...
