Take £50, the brightest of the local business community and add a healthy dash of competition. Leave to raise for the month of October. Serve the much-needed funds for the local hospice charity with a garnish of surprise.
St Luke’s Hospice Plymouth is cooking up a new challenge for the area’s business whizzes with the fast and furious Accumulator Challenge.
The gorilla with wanderlust is back on home soil - for a time. PEG - Polar Explorer Gorilla - left Living Coasts in Torquay with HMS PROTECTOR, the Royal Navy's Ice Patrol Vessel, for her last deployment in October 2013.
She has since travelled to a range of South, North and Central American countries, along with the Caribbean, British Virgin Islands, South Africa, South Georgia...
On the 15th August Plymouth City Centre will play host to the city’s first White T-shirt day, which aims to raise vital funds for Derriford Hospitals’ Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
Shops and businesses across the city centre will come together wearing plain white T-shirts to work on the 15th August – each donating £1 to NICU.
Volunteer business across the city, Plymouth’s “High...
A small group of staff members at Santander and Plymouth University are organising ‘The Party of the Summer’, a huge, amazing event on Friday the 25th September 2015 for the people of Plymouth.
The summer party venue is a stunning marquee on Plymouth Hoe, boasting superb views of The Sound. Tickets are for over 18's only and can be purchased for just £15, with all profit going to Brain Tumour Research. Each ticket will include canapés, glass of bubbly on arrival and an evening of entertainment.
Grab your £15 ticket from Crowdfunder web page http://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/...
Staff from LHC’s Exeter and Plymouth design studios have raised over £2,500 for one of the UK’s oldest charities, Devon based Hannahs.
The team of architects and urban designers cycled 58 miles and climbed 3750 feet of hills on Sunday, raising money towards a new £11,000 all-terrain wheelchair for the charity.
Twenty members of staff, including six of the company Directors...
On Sunday July 5th, a twenty-strong team of architects and urban designers from LHC’s Exeter and Plymouth studios will cycle across Devon to raise funds for one of the UK’s oldest charities, Devon based Hannahs.
The team will cycle an impressive 58 miles and climb 3750 feet of rolling Devon hills, raising money towards a new £11,000 all-terrain wheelchair that will get more kids and...
Staff from leading Devon law firm Kitsons are getting ready to take on the Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge this July to raise money for charity in honour of their friend and colleague, Mark Batten.
Mark, who was Chief Cashier at Kitsons, passed away suddenly in March 2014. He worked at Kitsons for over 35 years and was a prominent and well liked member of the firm. In 2013 when the...
Thousands of women united yesterday at Plymouth Hoe, with one mission in mind – to conquer cancer.
Now Cancer Research UK is calling on the town’s formidable army of mighty-mums, gutsy-grans, and go-getting girls to make every step count by paying in their sponsorship money as soon as possible.
Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life, in partnership with Tesco, is an inspiring women...
A North Tawton man is running four half marathons in 6 months to raise money for Ronald McDonald House in Bristol, a charity very close to his heart.
Alana Cook & Luke Compton of North Tawton, met while both working at the local company Gregory Distribution Limited (GDL). On Tuesday 12th November 2013 at 18:05, Luke Compton and Alana Cook’s world changed forever. Kaleb Jason Peter...
Professor Oliver Hanemann, Director of the Institute of Translational & Stratified Medicine at Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry, has been awarded a ‘Summer Studentship’ by the Dr Hadwen Trust (DHT), the UK’s leading non-animal medical research charity. The DHT scheme enables undergraduate students to extend their studies over the summer by gaining practical...
