Charities

Lifeworks would like to express their thanks to both Greenlife and Totnes Tyres for taking on our work placement students Aron and Cameron. It is so wonderful to have local business support the students in this important way. “Peter Maule, Manager at Greenlife said, Aron is a terrific asset to the business, a real team player and always with a smile on his face. It’s also great for the staff...

The Dartmoor Pony Heritage Trust has announced a substantial increase in support for Dartmoor pony breeders and keepers in a bid to halt a worrying decline in the number of native Dartmoor ponies being bred on the moor.

The charity has put in place measures to incentivise Dartmoor pony breeders and keepers to retain their herds as the cost of living crisis, which include an extremely...

Devon-based Community Interest Company, The Turning Tides Project, has been chosen by local employees at Mondelēz International to receive a donation of £5,000.

The project, which is dedicated to making sure local people with ‘learning disability’ or ‘autism’ labels have the right to equal access to music, the arts and life, has been granted the substantial figure from The Cadbury...

A charity that helps enrich the lives of people with dementia has benefited from a donation of almost £2,000, thanks to colleagues at a Plymouth building society branch.

Memory Matters, which works across Devon and Cornwall to improve the quality of life for those affected by dementia, received £1,902 from Yorkshire Building Society Charitable Foundation after being nominated for...