The research team at University Hospitals Plymouth are asking for volunteers to take part in a new COVID-19 vaccine study, which will involve participants receiving a COVID-19 vaccination.
If you are aged over 30 and in relatively good health, and have yet to receive a COVID-19 vaccination, the research team would like to invite you to sign up to take part. Anyone who is interested should please email plh-tr.contactvaccinestudy@nhs.net for further information.
Participants will be randomised and either receive two doses of the new Valneva vaccine, of which the UK...
The BHF Exeter is delighted to be reopening this spring and is appealing to the local community to get involved by donating the gift of time to support the charity’s recovery from the coronavirus crisis.
The BHF Exeter is inviting nearby residents who may be looking for something new to try, to take on some of the fantastic volunteering roles available. As well as providing crucial support to the BHF, volunteering can also provide great work experience, boost your CV, increase wellbeing and provide a social network within the local community.
FoodCycle , the charity that fights food poverty and loneliness will be serving up free meals to the community through their Project, FoodCycle Exeter which will transition into a Cook & Collect service on 27th April.
Serving up free takeaway meals every Tuesday from 6:30pm to 7:30pm this vital service aims to provide food and conversation to local communities across the country. With the additional aim of reducing food waste, FoodCycle volunteers create nutritious meals from surplus food. The meals are open to all, and guests range from low-income families, people affected...
Diabetes UK’s friendly and very active Exeter group are looking to recruit more volunteers to take on two important and currently ‘virtual’ roles.
Full training and support are available for creative and enthusiastic people who would like to get involved either in fundraising, to help raise money for local diabetes research, or in organising peer support for the group.
Both roles are key to supporting people living with diabetes and also offer the volunteer an excellent opportunity to learn new skills.
As a fundraiser, you’ll need to be approachable, proactive,...
The local branch of charity Guide Dogs is urgently looking for new volunteers in Exeter and surrounding areas. They are in need of people to join the local fundraising group, which organises community events and collections to help raise much needed funds. The charity relies on donations to keep its vital services running and has suffered with the impact of Covid-19 putting a dent in much of their face to face activities over the summer.
Guide Dogs has local fundraising groups across the country. This means that people can volunteer in their local communities and make a difference...
FoodCycle , the charity that fights food poverty and loneliness is in urgent need of volunteers in Bath , Bristol , Bristol Easton and Exeter . As an essential service, Foodcycle continues to be a lifeline to the local community during the current UK lockdown.
Due to isolating or shielding from the COVID-19 pandemic, volunteer numbers have dropped significantly. Without volunteers, Foodcycle cannot provide a vital service to the community who have come to rely on their weekly meals and food provision.
INCLUSIVE Exeter has received vital funding from HM Government (Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport), administered by The National Lottery Community Fund to continue its Coronavirus Hardship Relief Project.
Inclusive Exeter is a partnership of grassroots community organisations established to give Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) people in Exeter a greater voice.
During the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, Inclusive Exeter provided food to more than 1,000 people, not only from the BAME community but also to anyone who asked across the city and further...
RGB Building Supplies recently donated painting accessories to a team of volunteers who brightened up a courtyard belonging to Exeter-based Learn to Live 19-25, an organisation which supports young adults who have learning disabilities, physical difficulties or complex needs.
The group of volunteers, made up of apprentices from Devon County Council’s Leadership Support Team, asked the students from Learn to Live 19-25, which is based at the Ellen Tinkham School, what they would like to see painted on the fence in their courtyard. The students asked for a country field scene, as...
With the UK charity sector estimated to be facing a £4 billion loss in the next 12 weeks and 50% of all businesses putting most of their staff on furlough as a result of the Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, Freestyle , a Midlands-based digital product studio - has launched a unique service helping charities connect and find support from local businesses and its furloughed workers, Charity Matcher . For many of the UK’s 200,000 charities who employ an estimated 880,000 people, the cancellations of fundraising events and closure of high street charity shops have hit finances hard. The...
A VOLUNTEER army of more than 150 volunteers are working from home across Devon to provide vital PPE back up for local NHS and healthcare front liners after a community fundraising appeal netted more than £2,000 in just one week.
Across Devon, the talented crew of craftspeople are stitching and cutting around the clock to provide essential scrubs, laundry bags, and headbands, as well as printing 3D visors, to help protect key staff in hospitals, care homes and in the community.
Devon Scrubs started out as an appeal called Scrubs For Plymouth on a social media site before...
