South West insurance firm Cornish Mutual has once again been selected to be the region’s call centre for Red Nose Day 2017. On Friday 24th March, Comic Relief will be taking over screens across the nation asking people to ‘make your laugh matter’.
The Cornish Mutual call centre at its Truro headquarters will represent the South West on the big night, providing a focal point for the region’s fundraising efforts as well as handling donation calls from across the country. More than 100 volunteers from the organisation and other local businesses will be manning the phone-lines, and...
Staff at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital have raised £700 for Comic Relief by holding a Great Inter-Divisional Bake Off on Red Nose Day. Competition was fierce as staff from each division in the Trust – Specialist Services, Medicine and Surgery - put their culinary skills to the test and came up with all manner of baked confections for their divisional cake sales. Total proceeds from the cake sales have reached a fantastic £703. The teams were also asked to select their best looking and best tasting cakes to be presented to the executive tasting panel judges. The panel consisted of...
Exeter Specsavers store has raised a fantastic £520 for Red Nose day.
Lillian-Evangelia Agelis, store director of Specsavers Exeter, said: "We enjoyed raising money for Red Nose Day as it’s such a great cause. All staff members took part and encouraged all of our customers to join in the fun!"
COMPLIMENTARY selfie sticks are to be made readily available at The Magdalen Chapter this Red Nose Day. The Exeter hotel want to encourage guests and staff to capture amusing photos while ‘making their faces funny for money.’
On Friday March 13, guests and staff can take pictures of themselves pulling silly faces using the selfie sticks to raise money for Comic Relief. The complimentary selfie sticks will be readily available in the hotel for comical happy snappers to use. The hotel is then encouraging these images to be shared on social media using the hashtag #ChapterSelfie....
Red Nose Day 2015 is set to offer more than just Red Noses this year. Bright red comedy glasses with hair raising eyebrows, as modelled by the fabulous Gok Wan, are also coming to Exeter!
Visitors to Specsavers on Exeter's High Street can follow in the footsteps of Gok Wan and make their faces funny for money with Specsavers’ official Red Nose Day glasses in small and large sizes, for just £3 with £1 donated to Comic Relief.
Lillian-Evangelia Agelis, store director of Specsavers Exeter, says: "We are all looking forward to raising money for Red Nose Day as it’s such a great...
Local healthcare and protection insurer Exeter Family Friendly went to work in style on Friday 15 March to raise money for Comic Relief.
Staff members celebrated Red Nose Day by wearing something funny for money with an 80s themed fancy dress, while also arranging quizzes, sweepstakes and 80s style games and videos to help raise over £350.
Chief Executive of Exeter Family, Andy Chapman, said: “The effort our employees put into fundraising events such as this is fantastic; the whole day was a lot of fun.
"Comic Relief is such a good cause and there was a great spirit...
Aspect Windows has raised £321 for Comic Relief with its hugely successful cake sale on Friday 15 March. Staff sold homemade cakes and biscuits to their colleagues, customers and other local businesses on the Trade City estate.
The company joined property guru Kirstie Allsopp in the Twitter Million campaign, a challenge on the social networking site to raise £1 million for the charity, and had hoped to raise £100.
A record £75 million was raised for Comic Relief this year. The total amount, to be spent on charity projects in Africa and Britain, topped the 2011 total of £74....
Comic Relief marked its 25th year of helping children in Africa and the UK yesterday. Businesses, clubs and schools all over Exeter got involved by doing ‘something funny for money’ in a bid to make this year’s Red Nose Day the best fundraiser yet.
Exeter College were hit by Comic Relief fever early on when they held a ‘bake off’ in their training kitchens between catering students and three of the Exeter Chiefs. Supported by the Rugby Players representative and with Sainsbury’s and Silver Spoon providing the ingredients, the team kick started the Comic Relief season on the 28th...
Aspect Windows staff will don their red noses on Friday 15 March as they attempt to raise money for Comic Relief 2013 with a bake sale at their Exeter showroom.
Aspect Windows has joined property guru Kirstie Allsopp in the Twitter Million campaign, a challenge on the social networking site to raise £1 million for the charity, and hopes to raise £100 for the cause.
The company has invited the other businesses around Trade City, off Sidmouth Road, and hopes for a good turnout in the name of charity.
Managing director Steve Cooling said: “We joined Kirstie’s Twitter...
