Charities

The Devonwide health and wellbeing charity Westbank Community Health and Care (Westbank) is continuing to improve its Community Allotment with a generous donation of soil improver from a local waste management and recycling company.

The green waste division of Exeter-based Coastal Recycling has delivered six tonnes of quality compost created from garden waste to improve the soil for...

A young cancer survivor from Devon completed the TCS London Marathon and raised more than £2,000 for the charity that supported her after she was diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma in 2022.

Freya Sampson, 24, from Exmouth took on the iconic marathon to raise money for the Ellen MacArthur Cancer Trust. She first joined the charity’s transformational sailing adventures in 2024, returned...

A Barnstaple cat-lover will skydive for the first time this weekend to celebrate the many ways his cats have supported him through the hardest times and to raise money for the county’s needy felines.

James Merriman, 41, adopted his three cats from Cats Protection and it is their role helping him and his partner Nicky navigate life’s highs, and particularly the lows, that have...

A volunteer organisation has come together with a UK police force to help review some of its cold cases in a first-of-its-kind agreement.

Locate International, a charity that looks into cold cases of missing and unidentified people, will review hundreds of cases held by Devon & Cornwall Police.

The team of 12, supplemented by members of the Special Constabulary, has been...