Devon’s health and social care system is under extreme pressure due to high demand for services, sustained demand for Covid beds, pressure on staffing and the need for social care exceeding the available capacity.
Pressures are being seen across the system, in mental health care, primary care (GPs) and adult social care as well as our acute hospital trusts.
Britain’s most celebrated charity fundraiser, SpeedoMick, is back on the road again on his 2,000 mile ‘Giving Back Tour’. In his trusty speedos, Mick is currently halfway through his six-month trek around the UK and Ireland, raising funds for the SpeedoMick Foundation and finding charities to donate up to £250,000 to along the way.
A nervous Springer Spaniel who survived for days alone with his deceased owner, is among the heart-breaking cases being helped by a new mental health scheme at a Plymouth charity.
Woodside Animal Welfare Trust has launched The Mental Health and Enrichment Sponsorship programme to support more animals like nine-year-old Marley, who was discovered by police at a Plymouth flat this...
Kind-hearted Plymouth people are being urged to sign up to join an army of volunteers needed to collect food for charities feeding people in their community this Christmas.
The Trussell Trust, which provides emergency food parcels to people in crisis, and FareShare, which provides food to thousands of frontline charities and community groups, are seeking volunteers to help during...
Cera , the UK healthcare-at-home provider and one of Europe’s fastest-growing companies, today announces that it is creating 375 jobs in Plymouth . The roles will be made available across it’s branches in Plympton, Plymstock, Wembury and Kingsbridge.
The company, launched less than five years ago, has reached its initial goal of filling 10,000 jobs during the pandemic & by the...
Amazon has announced it is hiring for 20,000 seasonal positions across its UK network of fulfilment centres, sortation centres and delivery stations during the festive season, including more than 50 in Plymouth.
Pay for Operations roles starts at a minimum of £10.00 p/h rising to £11.10 p/h in some parts of the UK for all full-time, part-time, temporary, or seasonal roles in Amazon’s...
‘The Box on The Box’, an initiative set up during the first lockdown last year to prevent isolation among the elderly through screening archive film footage directly into care homes, IS appealing for votes after reaching the finals of the National Lottery Awards 2021 ‘Project of the Year’.
The project beat off stiff competition from more than 1,500 organisations to reach the public...
Research released last week has revealed the UK’s best quality locations for charity shopping, with Nottingham beating the likes of London to be named the nation’s best- as secondhand shopping soars in popularity during and after the national lockdown.
The research, for the UK’s Best Charity Shopping Destinations 2021 and conducted by student accommodation platform, M ystudenthalls....
People across Devon are being reminded it’s not too late to have the second dose of the Covid-19 vaccine.
More than thirteen thousand people across Devon are not fully vaccinated more than twelve weeks after their first dose. They include over seven and a half thousand people who initially had a first dose of the Astra Zeneca vaccine.
