FORCE

Millbrook Village – Exeter’s first luxury retirement village – is sponsoring this year’s Classics Galore! concert in aid of FORCE Cancer Charity.

The show at the University of Exeter Great Hall on Saturday, November 14, features a programme of entertainment that features familiar and uplifting music performed by a 200- strong ensemble – a full orchestra, a brass band and two choral societies.

“Without the support of generous sponsorship, making fundraising events like ours possible, the amazing and valuable work of FORCE would not be available in support of so many people...

FORCE is relaunching its support group for younger women with breast cancer.

From November 11, drop-in sessions will be held at the charity’s Support and Information Centre in Exeter on the second Wednesday of each month from 1.30pm-3pm.

Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer in women but it is less common in the under 50s for whom it presents specific issues.

The Younger Women’s Breast Cancer Support Group (under 50s) offers an opportunity to talk in a supportive and informal environment.

For more information, contact FORCE Oncology Support...

The FORCE Cancer Charity shop in Heavitree will partially re-open on Friday October 2.

The award-winning shop in Fore Street has been closed since August 21 for essential refurbishment work.

Contractors have been carrying out renovations including new roofing, some structural work, total rewiring and redecoration.

They have completed work on the furniture and book section of the shop, which will be re-carpeted early next week and re-stocked with a variety of items in time to welcome customers again on Friday.

“We’ll put a bit of everything in, including...

Devon law firm Kitsons has teamed up with FORCE Cancer Charity to offer supporters the opportunity to make or update their Will, in return for a donation to the charity.

Through the scheme, for every new Will completed by the Private Client Team at Kitsons Solicitors in Exeter, the firm will donate a proportion of its fees for those Wills to FORCE.

The Will Scheme for FORCE started on 1 September 2015.

Charlie Siegle, Partner and Head of the Kitsons Private Client Team in Exeter said: “Making or updating a Will can be easy to put off or overlook but it is vital to...

The award-winning FORCE Cancer Charity shop in Heavitree will close on Friday (August 21) for essential refurbishments.

Building work will begin on September 1 and the first phase is due to be completed in time for a partial re-opening in the first week of October.

Phase 2 should be done by the end of October so that the shop can fully re-open in early November.

Shop manager Anna Heard said: “It’s our last trading day this Friday. We have lots of clearance bargains going on including 10 CDs for a £1, all children's books 10p, adults’ books 40p and all clothes...

A family braved gale force winds during a 955 sponsored cycle ride to raise money for two Exeter charities who cared for their mum. Four members of Kathryn Hall’s family spent nine days in the saddle cycling from John O’Groats to Land’s End.

So far the team has raised £6,200 for Hospiscare and FORCE, the local charities which supported Kathryn Hall, from Silverton, who died in March 2014.

The cyclists faced strong winds, lashing rain and more than nine miles of vertical ascent.

"We spent 75 hours in the saddle and burnt 4-5500 calories a day" says Lisa Rew, Kathryn’...

Staff from South Western Ambulance Service (SWASFT) have raised more than £2,000 for local charities from a sponsored cycle and walk along the Granite Way.

The event took place on 16 May 2015 with many ambulance staff and their friends and family cycling and walking from Okehampton to Bridestowe, along the Granite Way. The event was in aid of the Devon Ambulance Staff Benevolent Fund (DASBF) and FORCE Cancer Charity.

The cycle route was 16 miles long and the walk eight miles with support for those taking part being given in the form of fresh fruit supplied by Riverford...

The FORCE Cancer Charity Shop in Heavitree’s Fore Street has again been named the best in the country.

It’s won the award as the most profitable in its category from the Charity Retail Association.

The news comes as FORCE announces that the shop is set to close at the end of August for approximately 10 weeks.

“We need to carry out some essential building work and we can’t do that without shutting the shop completely,” said manager Anna Heard.

But she reassured customers: “We won’t be doing anything to change the identity of our shop. It will still be the...

The South West is getting set to go rugby crazy with the countdown to the first World Cup fixture in Exeter now well underway.

Tonga face Namibia in Pool C at Sandy Park on September 29 but there will be a sprinkling of international talent on show in the city before that to whet the appetite of rugby fans.

Former New Zealand Maori Brad Hepi and Welsh World Cup player Will James are two of the star names signed up to play in a charity tag rugby day in Exeter this weekend.

The Devon Rugby Legends Tag Feztival at Exeter Saracens on Saturday is raising awareness and...