Fifteen hundred cyclists will be heading out of Topsham on Sunday June 28 in an event that has raised more than £300,000 for local cancer charity FORCE in the past four years.
They will leave the rugby club from 8am onwards to tackle 100 or 55 mile routes around the Devon countryside on the annual Nello ride.
This is the biggest fundraising event in the charity’s calendar and its popularity attracts riders back year after year.
Adele Needham from Exeter, an emergency planner for Devon and Cornwall with the Environment Agency, has ridden the shorter course for the...
St Loye’s Foundation is pleased to announce that Eilis Rainsford will be its next Chief Executive from July.
Eilis joins St Loye’s Foundation from the mental health charity Community Care Trust (South West) Ltd where she has been Chief Executive since 2009.
Eilis has more than 25 years’ experience in senior management and leadership roles in the voluntary, health and social care sectors. She started her career in nursing.
She will lead a newly-formed group structure bringing together St Loye’s Foundation and the Community Care Trust (South West) Ltd. Eilis will...
To mark this year’s Deafblind Awareness Week, Roger Mulholland a young deafblind man is leading a sensory walk around the quay and river in Exeter on Tuesday 23 June.
Roger who is deaf and registered blind, is a regular volunteer at Café 55 a unique café in central Exeter staffed by disabled people and run by national deafblind charity Sense.
The 28-year-old from Tiverton who received the Duke of Edinburg Gold Award in 2012 and was named ‘Deafblind Person of the Year’ in 2011 was born deafblind. He has also learning difficulties and a heart condition and communicates using...
Our upcoming fundraising Summer Fete is due to take place on sat 4th July in St Thomas Pleasure Grounds:
Our annual fundraising Summer Fete is going to be even bigger and better this year with live music, entertainment, children's activities, delicious cakes, craft and plant stalls.
There will also be a bouncy castle & toddler play area, food & drink plus a beer tent, classic bikes, face painting, badge making and games.
A great value day out for all the family and you will be supporting your local Age UK to provide support and services for older people...
The Exeter Foundation and Exeter Symphony Orchestra have joined forces with two local businesses to give a tireless volunteer a very special evening out.
C Group volunteer Shirley-Anne Fison will be a guest of the ESO at The Waterloo Concert on 20th June in Exeter Cathedral.
The 19 charities adopted by the Exeter Foundation were asked by ESO to nominate a volunteer who always goes ‘above and beyond’ to help others.
C Group Chief Executive Sharky Ward OBE who made the nomination said: "Shirley-Anne has been an avid supporter of The C Group for over 5 years....
A record number of 100 wounded Heroes, collectively covering 18,500 miles, lead the largest major gathering of Afghanistan and Iraq veteran cyclists since the end of the Afghanistan conflict.
Many of the wounded are cycling from the South West and they will be backed by over 1,000 charity supporters cycling from all four points of the compass to raise vital funds for Help for Heroes.
Despite the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan coming to an end, a new Freedom of Information (FOI) act request to the Ministry of Defence from Help for Heroes has revealed that 32,036 Servicemen and...
A team of executives from Exeter Family Friendly raised £2675 for Devon-based charity Rainbow Living after cycling 72 miles from Wellington to Salcombe.
Starting at 8:30am, Exeter Family’s Andy Chapman (CEO), Simon Philp, Paul Austin, Alan Ord and Adrian Hodgkinson crossed the finish line at 16:30pm, to raise money for the protection provider’s charity of the year.
Rainbow Living provide housing for adults with learning disabilities so they can live with their peers in supported accommodation and the funds raised from the cycle will go towards the charity’s third house....
On Friday 15th May, the kitchen design team at Bradburys Exeter held a charity event in their showroom, in memory of the late owner, Andy Bradbury.
The Bradburys team organised a fantastic fashion show to raise money for Andy’s preferred charities ‘Force’ Cancer Charity and ‘Sands’ Neonatal and Stillbirth Charity, and raised a staggering amount - in excess of £5,400!
Guests included family, friends, work colleagues and customers past and present who enjoyed live music with a glass of fizz and canapés put together by renowned chef and friend of Andy’s - Sylvain Peltier - as...
The Residential Property team at Michelmores took over the Exeter Leukaemia Fund (ELF) shop in Crediton on the 9th June 2015. Raising funds by selling cakes, steaming clothes and dressing the store windows the team raised £650 in one day for the charity.
The Exeter Leukaemia Fund supports families affected by blood cancers and blood disorders across the South West by providing compassionate, tailored support in the Yarty ward at the RD&E where around 400 patients are treated each week.
Karen Eagle, an Associate in the Residential Property team, said: 'I would like...
Two Exeter School brothers are planning a trip of a life time for a deserving cause.
Lower Sixth Former Tom Counsell and his brother Will, who is the Upper Fifth, are volunteering for four weeks over the summer as rugby coaches in Swaziland.
The duo will be working with the Swaziland-based charity SKRUM, whose aim is to give the school children of Swaziland social awareness and sex education while having fun and playing rugby.
Both boys are on the school's 1st XI rugby team of which Tom will be captain next season and they regularly play for the Exeter Chiefs...
