South West law firm Michelmores LLP is seeking applications from local charities who would like to become their next Charity of the Year, starting January 2016.
Over the last two years Michelmores has raised over £50,000 for Macmillan Cancer Support through events such as the firm's annual 5K Charity Run, coffee mornings, a Charity Art Auction and many more.
This year, the submission criteria has changed, and Michelmores is looking to support a charity local to its head office in Exeter.
The main requirement for the charity looking to becoming Michelmores...
A group of NCS participants will be hosting a fundraising event for Whizz-Kidz, the charity which provides disabled children with the essential wheelchairs and other mobility equipment they need to lead fun and active childhoods, in Princesshay this Friday (7 August).
The National Citizen Service (NCS) is a Government-backed initiative designed to inspire young people and help them improve their local communities.
The staff at Exeter City FC’s Football in the Community team are working with 120 16-17 year olds from around the region this summer and the first wave of...
We are encouraging individuals and businesses to allow staff to wear a football shirt to work on Monday 10th August to remember Adam, and to Text STAN09 (that’s zero nine) £3 to 70070 – or an amount of your choice.
The expanding local charity has changed its logo. The orange sunshine logo has been replaced with a bright, colourful tree reflecting Hospiscare’s growing services, reaching out offering help and comfort to an increasing number of local people. Hospiscare also has a new strapline: Caring in the heart of Devon… Because every day matters.
The logo is cheerful and happy mirroring the positive and enriching work carried out by Hospiscare doctors and nurses who provide high quality, free, professional care and support monthly for 700...
Three local men are cycling the length of the country to raise funds for Exeter-based charity Rainbow Living.
Duncan, Will and Jools are cycling from John O’Groats to Land’s End to help raise money for a third Rainbow House which will provide a home for a group of young disabled adults in the local area. The trio are preparing in a variety of ways and have just completed the Nello, a 100 mile cycle ride!
Says Will: “After a casual conversation about going for a cycle ride we've ended up setting ourselves the biggest physical challenge of our lives! To make it even more...
Devon-based charity Rainbow Living is looking for 5,000 people to take a #RainbowSelfie to help raise £15,000 towards buying a third Rainbow House and provide a home for a group of young disabled adults.
#RainbowSelfie is part of the charity’s #ThirdRainbowHouse campaign which launches today (Tuesday 28 July).
It’s easy to get involved – simply embrace the ‘rainbow’ theme, take your #RainbowSelfie, share on social media, and nominate 3 friends to do the same.
You can donate to the campaign by texting RNBW03 £3 to 70070 or online at https://campaign.justgiving.com/...
An Exeter opticians is hosting a week-long fundraising event to raise vital funds for the Exeter Multiple Sclerosis Society. From Monday 27 July staff at Specsavers, located at 247 High Street, will be wearing t-shirts and distributing leaflets to raise awareness of the condition. The team will be encouraging local residents to dig deep and raise as much as possible for the charity. Store director, Lillian Agelus says: ‘We want to encourage customers old and new to come into the store and take part in the fundraising drive. ‘On Tuesday 28 July all staff members will be taking part in a...
Hundreds of ladies are preparing to give cancer ‘double trouble’ at Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life by taking part in the 10k event at Westpoint Exeter this month.
Race for Life 10k will take place on Sunday, 26 July and over 600 determined ladies have already signed up to show the disease that hell hath no fury like a woman in pink.
Event organisers are calling on mothers, daughters, sisters, friends and workmates who want to take on the challenge to sign up as soon as possible.
The 10k event takes place at the same venue as the 5k course. Both are non-...
Come and join the Big Walkies - the Best Dog Walk Ever!
Taking place on Sunday 27 September starting at Wonford Sports Centre, Rifford Road, Exeter EX2 6NF and walking either 3km or 5km around Ludwell Valley Park. Registration is £10 per dog and all money raised goes directly to your local RSPCA Shelter - Little Valley. There will be an event village and lots of fun on the day.
Women in Exeter are being urged to grab their last chance to enter Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life at Westpoint Exeter as there is just one week left until registration closes. Over 5000 women have already joined a ‘pink army’ ready to take on cancer in the 5k, 10k and Pretty Muddy events on 25 and 26 July, but there are still places left. One of those is inspirational mum Jess Gallaway whose world fell apart when she lost her brother Rhys to a brain tumour nine years ago. But every year the family do something special in memory of Rhys and pay tribute to the bubbly, carefree boy who...
