Charities

Freemasons donate to Devon & Cornwall Food Association

The Masonic Charitable Foundation have given a £2,000 grant to The Devon & Cornwall Food Action Association (Plymouth Branch).

The Devon & Cornwall Food Association (DCFA) is a charity reflecting the need to link food waste with food poverty and they were visited by the Deputy Provincial Grand Master of Devonshire V. W. Bro. Nicholas Ball where he met up with Jackie Young their...

ID Fashion set to raise hundreds at charity fashion show

Royal William Yard's leading fashion boutique, IDFashion is to stage a major fashion event at Royal William Yard in partnership with Plymouth Ladies Charity Club. The event will feature a stunning collection of beautiful and unique designer pieces, created by the ID design team, and will be worn by a section of local models.

The show will take place in the beautiful Mills Bakery...

Charity offers voyages of discovery for disabled children

Over 650 disabled children from schools and groups in Devon and Cornwall have day-sailed in the pilot cutter Cornubia on voyages of discovery in Plymouth Sound over the past 7 years free of charge, thanks to the Bristol Channel Pilot Cutter Trust.

The charity was founded by Tony Winter, owner and skipper of Cornubia, who has now retired from commercial sailing but has arranged for the...

Fundraising total announced by Otter Nurseries Plymouth

The charity team at Otter Nurseries garden centre in Brixton has raised an amazing £2,359 for their chosen charity of the year 2016.

The money was raised through staff events, a fun day and collecting tins at the tills.

The charity 'Dogs for Good' was set up in 1986 by Frances Hay who believed she could help disabled people by training assistance dogs. Its mission is...

The Lions Club of Plymouth Swimarathon 2017

After our very successful first Swimarathon in October 2015 the Lions Club of Plymouth are holding our second in March 2017 at the Saltash Leisure Centre.

It is an opportunity for charities, organisations, groups, or indeed anyone interested in fundraising for their chosen cause.

At the same time you will be supporting the three main charities chosen by the dcLions as shown on...

Best foot forward for Plymouth Foodbank

A year after they pledged to get fit for 2016, The Family Law Company’s Plymouth team has announced the results.

Ten lawyers and support staff took part in two challenges; a ‘fit club’ to help them lose those extra pounds which carried a £1 fee for the regular weigh in, and a pedometer contest with two teams of five going head to head.

The pedometer challenge was hotly...

Help for parents too

Schools feel the increasing demand for mental health support for their pupils, but now there is good news for parents and teachers too.

The new £1.2 million Plymouth City Council project will put services into schools, and a Charity that is pleased to be partnering with Plymouth City Council will be offering parents free taster sessions in Emotional Logic. These are designed to help...

Right Now charity campaign urges SW to help beat cancer

A new awareness and fundraising campaign urging people in the South West to take action ‘Right Now’ in the fight against cancer is being launched this Christmas by Cancer Research UK.

The powerful ‘Right Now’ campaign aims to shine a light on the men, women and children facing cancer every day and features real people in emotional TV, poster and radio adverts.

It launches as...

Christmas Jumper day at Drake Circus a great success

Woolly reindeer, snowflakes, Christmas trees and Santa adorned hundreds of jumpers on the 3 December as shoppers donned their favourite festive pullovers for charity at Drake Circus, Plymouth raising £491.55.

The annual Christmas Jumper Day at Drake Circus on December 3 was a spectacle to behold as the normally fashionable people of Plymouth threw style out of the window to raise money...

Christian Aid releases 'Stranger Things' inspired appeal video

Christian Aid has launched ‘A Stranger Christmas Story’, a short stop-frame animation film inspired by the popular Netflix TV show Stranger Things, to highlight the 65 million people who are displaced by conflict and crises this Christmas.

However, the numbers of people displaced are constantly rising due to recent events in places such as Aleppo in Syria, Mosul in Iraq, South Sudan...

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