As schools close their doors for the summer holidays, Devon County Council says that it's aware that the financial challenges facing some households in Devon will be intensified over the next few weeks.
Increased costs such as food and activities, particularly with the current cost of living, and reduced incomes due to childcare, mean that this year’s holiday break could be...
Benefact Group’s Movement for Good Awards is giving away £120,000 as part of its annual 12 Days of Giving Christmas campaign
For 12 days in the lead up to Christmas the specialist financial services group is giving £1,000 to ten charities each day - with 120 charities in total benefitting from a festive financial boost.
Nominations are now open and Devon residents are being...
Daish’s Holidays, a UK based family-owned coach holiday provider, has announced it is supporting Cancer Research as its charity partner for 2023 in a dedicated fundraising drive across its 12 hotels in England and Wales.
Every year the coach holiday provider pledges to raise money for a deserving cause with the help of donations from guests and staff as well as a full schedule of...
Devon County Council has secured additional funding to help households weather the rising costs of living, to help pay for food, energy and other essential items.
This is the fourth tranche of the government's Household Support Fund that the County Council has been able to secure.
The latest bid amounts to a little over £10 million, to cover the period from April 2023 until...
Now in its fourth year, leading off-grid energy supplier, Calor, is once again calling on worthy rural community projects of all shapes and sizes to enter its Rural Community Fund for 2020 and be in with the chance of securing grants from its £85,000 fund pot.
Calor is celebrating its 85th anniversary this year and is marking the milestone by making this year’s investment bigger than...
The Morrisons Foundation has donated £16,000 to Care for Kids North Devon, a charity that helps families who have a child diagnosed with a life-threatening illness.
The support from the Morrisons Foundation will fund the refurbishment of cubicle 4 at the Caroline Thorpe Children's Ward. The much-needed grant will transform this individual bedroom, making it a more comfortable place...
A motorcyclist has died following a collision in Plympton yesterday [4 May].
Emergency services were called at 11.05am following the collision between a white Vauxhall Combo van and a black KTM 690 motorcycle at the bottom of Cot Hill on Plymouth Road.
The motorcyclist, aged 60 and from Plympton, sustained serious injuries and was airlifted to Derriford Hospital by air...
South West firms could be missing out on a ‘cash mountain’ that could help them to expand, says Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking after new figures found they were tying up millions of pounds in excess working capital.
The research shows that businesses across the south and the east of England have at least £138.3billion tied up in excess capital, as business growth continues to soar....
Over a third of working families in the South West could not afford to pay their rent or mortgage for more than a month if they lost their job, new figures from Shelter reveal today.
With little or no personal savings to fall back on, the Shelter and YouGov study found that this means a staggering 318,000 working families in the region could be just one paycheque away from losing their...
