How do you transport large, exotic and venomous fish from the English Riviera to zoos on the Continent? The answer is – with great care…
Staff at Living Coasts, Torquay’s coastal zoo, recently had the unenviable task of moving two stingrays to Antwerp Zoo and another to Pairi Daiza, a zoo and botanical garden in Brugelette, in south western Belgium.
I'm planning a fundraising night with Fresher and Professor in Plymouth, just off North Hill.
I run the weekly Open Mic there on a Thursday and have done for almost a year, to excellent success. Seeing as the year's anniversary is coming up we thought we'd give something back and hold a night of charity in order to raise money for Plymouth Music Zone.
On Thursday 5th March 2015 we have an awesome night of music lined up including Steve Sampson (of The Retro Gents), Tom Baker, my band (Tom Clark and the Violet Narrative) and a whole roster of other musicians,...
THIS VALENTINE’S Day (Saturday, February 14) a heartfelt invitation is going out to all women in Plymouth urging them to enter Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life.
Event organisers are asking women to make a date to beat cancer by signing up for Race for Life 5k event at the Hoe. The event takes place later this year, on Sunday, June 21.
Massage therapist and animal lover Ailia Barnwell is combining her love of massage and passion for animal welfare by donating 50 hours of massage in a special fundraising project to raise her target of £500 for the animals at Gables Farm Dogs’ and Cats’ Home. The one hour massages are available to book at the greatly reduced price of only £10.00, all of which will be donated to Gables Farm...
A leading South West conservation charity has created two new posts as it expands its crucial overseas work. The Whitley Wildlife Conservation Trust, based at Paignton Zoo, has announced new staff for its projects in Vietnam and Nigeria.
Emmanuel Olabode has been appointed as Education & Research Coordinator at the Nigerian Conservation Foundation, while Heidi Quine takes up the...
Nominations for the prestigious Exeter Foundation Devon Sports Awards are now open.
Active Devon and Exeter Foundation, who jointly stage and promote the event, are expecting this year’s event to be more popular than ever.
The awards celebrate, not just the participants, but the clubs and teams, the coaches, the officials and the volunteers who help performers to succeed....
Leading UK law firm Ashfords LLP, has raised a life-changing sum of over £62,000 for Children's Hospice South West (CHSW) as its Charity of the Year 2014.
CHSW provides children's hospice care across the South West and supports more than 400 life-limited children and their families promising to make the most of short and precious lives.
Sense, the national deafblind charity, is offering budding athletes from Devon the opportunity to take the challenge of a lifetime and run this year’s London Marathon.
The charity that supports and campaigns for people who are both deaf and blind across Devon, has guaranteed places for the iconic race in April.
Tara Hamdi from Sense, said: “The London Marathon is one of the...
A generous Plymouth charity brought Christmas cheer and lots of cuddles to our children’s wards last week.
Representatives from Becca’s Bear dropped in to the Activity Centre on level 12 on Tuesday 16 December, armed with tons of teddy bears for donation to the children on the wards.
Santa and Build A Bear mascot, Bearemy were also on hand to help with distributing the bears...
DFS Plymouth delivered more than just your regular sofa order to the Hallam family household on Wednesday when they also dropped off a £250 donation to much-loved local charity ‘Hugs for Henry’.
After DFS colleagues realised their delivery was going to the Hallam family home they decided to surprise their son Henry with a generous donation of £250 to help support his treatment after...
