Almost 50 runners pounded the streets of Plymouth at the weekend in aid of leading women’s charity, Trevi
Sunday, 14 May, played host to Plymouth’s annual Britain’s Ocean City Half Marathon, 10k and 5k events. The atmosphere was buzzing as runners, both women and men, came out in force to support Trevi in celebrating their 30th Anniversary and raise over £8500!
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...
Otter Garden Centre in Ottery St Mary is delighted to announce a total of over £3,300 raised for charity of the year Brain Tumour Support .
The figure was achieved through a variety of fundraising activities, including the annual Christmas Wish Tree and collection cans at till points. The Otter team also put together a number of staff events such as quiz and bingo evenings which were...
A man from Plymouth is running the ‘toughest race on earth’ in April to raise funds for Parkinson’s UK.
Bill Martin, 55, is running the Marathon Des Sables, where he will run over 250km in seven days whilst carrying everything he needs, including food and sleeping gear, in his backpack.
Setting himself a £10,000 fundraising target, Bill decided to fundraise for Parkinson’s...
New Lion Brewery, a community owned brewery with a taproom at Meadowbrook in Dartington, are donating a percentage of the sales from their new community beer, ‘Local Hero’, to local charity Lifeworks . The beer is brewed each year by the company, and a donation to a local organisation or charity is made from the sales. The beer is brewed from hops supplied by The New Lion Brewery members....
Marie Curie is calling on primary schools, nurseries, and playgroups across Devon to sign up to its cutest fundraising event in the calendar, the Penguin Parade .
Local children can take part in a sponsored walk, with a special Penelope the Penguin plush toy, while raising money for families affected by terminal illness.
Launched in 2021, 140 different groups across the UK...
STAFF at two Devon opticians turned themselves all shades of pink to raise awareness and much-needed funds to help towards beating breast cancer.
The conscientious colleagues at the Specsavers Paignton and Totnes stores were taking part in Wear It Pink Day as part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, with the stores being decked out in bright pink, collection pots available so customers...
A 12-year-old Devon local has been named a finalist for the 2022 Just Giving Awards after raising hundreds of thousands of pounds in memory of his friend.
Max Woosey, who tragically lost his friend and neighbour, Rick, to cancer, has raised over £600,000 for the North Devon Hospice after it provided his friend with end of life care.
A young carer who completed a sponsored skydive to raise money for young carers in North Devon has presented them with a cheque for over one thousand pounds to fund activities, trips and get-togethers.
Charley Hockridge, a former student at Barnstaple’s Pilton Community College, is a volunteer for Devon Young Carers - a service provided by the charity Westbank that’s helped Charley...
For the last two years, Hoburne Devon Bay holiday park in Paignton has been supporting Devon Air Ambulance as the park’s nominated charity.
Despite covid measures and restrictions on fundraising events, the popular family holiday park has raised more than £14,000 for the much-needed local charity, which responded to 1,900 incidents across the region last year.
