rainbow run

What does sitting down with a cup of tea mean to you?

For Mum of three, Bev Roberts, from Sidbury, it’s the highlight of her respite stay at Children’s Hospice South West – care that is funded through its Exeter Rainbow Run.

Amelia Roberts, aged 10, has Batten’s Disease. It’s extremely rare and is life-limiting. Already, Amelia has affected sight and mobility and requires round the clock care and, as a result, Children’s Hospice South West’s Little Bridge House has become a haven for the family.

Bev says: ‘We come to stay at Little Bridge House every eight weeks or...

Exeter’s first ever Rainbow Run on Sunday (8 June) was a resounding success.

This crazy, fun event was raising money for the Children’s Hospice South West and 1,000 participants raised an astonishing £48,000 for the charity, which has three children’s hospices in North Devon, Cornwall and North Somerset.

Held at the Exeter Racecourse, this is the first time that the Rainbow Run has taken place in Devon.

This brilliant fun event features runners and walkers being showered with coloured paint, and the charity is delighted as to its success:

CHSW Event...

Entries are now open for the UK’s craziest, most colourful sponsored 5k event for all the family – the Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW) Rainbow Run at Exeter Racecourse on Sunday 8 June.

You can run it. You can walk it. You can even skip it.

However you choose to do it – the organisers guarantee you will cross the finishing line a vision of colour and wearing the biggest smile.

Just make sure you wear a white t-shirt, and clothes you don't mind getting messy because as you pass through the five paint stations, you will showered with different coloured powder...