Kind-hearted colleagues at Devon’s Tesco stores were among those donating more than £45,000 to help youngsters with life-limiting conditions.
The money was given to Children’s Hospice South West after stores across the region chose the hospice as their charity of the year and set about organising a wide range of fun-filled activities to help the 500-plus children currently receiving...
A woman living with the side effects of a brain tumour is diving into a year-long open water swimming challenge to raise awareness of the disease.
Heather Turner of Brixham will be taking daily dips as part of the 365 Sea Swim Challenge to raise awareness of Brain Tumour Research . She turned to open water swimming as a form of therapy after her own diagnosis of the disease in 1996,...
Christine Milton, licensee of the Kings Arms , on Fore Street in Salcombe, is celebrating running the incredible distance between Lands’ End and John O’Groats this week, while also raising £4,500 for charity. Christine ran an average of 22km a day to complete the 1,744km (1083miles) challenge in just 79 days, 12 days quicker than she had planned.
PEOPLE across Devon are being urged to bite back at cancer by putting Sunday brunch on the menu this autumn.
An array of celebrity chefs, including Jamie Oliver and Tom Kerridge, have joined forces to encourage foodies and fundraisers alike to cook up some cash for Stand Up To Cancer.
The joint fundraising campaign from Cancer Research UK and Channel 4 aims to get new cancer...
Childline can today reveal it has seen large numbers of children getting in touch due to Coronavirus (COVID-19), carrying out over 1,700 counselling sessions about the issue in the last three weeks alone – bringing the new total up to more than 2,200 since the end of January.
Despite Childline having to close the night service for the first time and having a 30% drop in volunteer...
Community groups and charities in Plymouth are being invited to apply for thousands of pounds’ worth of funding through the Tesco Bags of Help scheme.
Applications are now officially open for 2020, and anyone can nominate groups and charities benefiting local communities. Three groups will be awarded grant amounts of £2,000, £1,000 or £500 every three months.
Generous Ashfords' people have beaten their charity fund raising target for their chosen charity, Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust.
Staff and partners of the firm pulled out all the stops with fundraising and awareness raising event for Jo's Trust, the only UK charity dedicated to women and their families affected by cervical cancer and cervical abnormalities.