Charities

Local charity, Aster Foundation will be making a difference to local communities with over 1,000 hours of volunteering pledged by its supporters and beneficiaries.

The aim of its 1,000 Hours campaign was to reach a combined total of volunteer hours investment of time across local communities to coincide with National Volunteers’ Week (1 - 7 June 2022). The charity encouraged it’s...

Alzheimer’s Society is urging fundraisers in Devon to take on a new challenge in 2022 and join hundreds of people walking to stop dementia in its tracks at Trek26 South Devon Coast. By signing up to a 13 or 26-mile trek across the breath-taking countryside on 10 September avid hikers and beginners alike can experience the coastline like they’ve never seen it before.

Both the 13-mile...

People in Devon are being invited to raise vital funds for Diabetes UK this summer as part of a drive to highlight why it is so important to know your risk of developing type 2 diabetes.

The One Million Step Challenge runs from 1 July to 30 September and is ideal for anyone looking for a way to get more active. You take one million steps over the course of three months – around 10,...

Help for Heroes has joined forces with Plymouth’s St Luke’s Hospice to encourage and train fellow veterans to join the Turnchapel charity’s End of Life Military Compassion project as a volunteer.

St Luke’s is piloting a scheme to enhance its end-of-life care for patients who have given service to their country in the armed forces. The project is designed to ensure the community is a...