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Roseland House Garden in Chacewater near Truro will be welcoming people through it’s gates on 19 – 20 June in support of Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW).

The garden, which surrounds an old mine captains house, is about one acre in size and features a lot of climbing plants from rambling roses to clematis and many others. A Victorian conservatory also provides shelter for the tender climbers and a wide range of scented leaf Pelargoniums.

On 19 and 20 June the garden will be open from 1pm – 5pm, admission will cost £5 for adults and children will be able to enter for free. Dogs are

If you are planning on dining at The Pig near Bath in June, you will notice there is an option to donate to local charity, Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW) when selecting one of the restaurant’s most popular dishes.

To mark CHSW’s 30th anniversary, The Pig near Bath is asking customers to round up their payment when buying the small cured-meat platter (£9) and large cured-meat platter (£18). This popular staple dish is available on its al-a-carte menu and ties in with the restaurant’s commitment to a 25-mile menu.

The Pig’s restaurant is the heart of the house where they dish up

Ollie Lee from Seaton has set himself the mammoth challenge of running 45 miles across Cornwall, from Padstow to Seaton, in memory of his niece’s daughter Phoebe Hoskin.

Phoebe died in April this year just nine months old after suffering with a complex brain tumour. Phoebe and her parents, Ollie’s niece Jade and fiance Sam, were supported by the team at Little Harbour; the children’s hospice in St Austell run by Children’s Hospice South West. Ollie set himself this challenge to raise funds for the hospice after all of the support they gave his family and continue to provide Jade and Sam as

Warren Lodge Garden in Mary Tavy near Tavistock will be welcoming people through it’s gates this summer in support of Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW).

The garden will be open on Sunday 6 June, Sunday 4 July and Sunday 1 August. Bookings are being taken for each day with arrival slots available at 12pm, 1.30pm and 3pm.

Warren Lodge is a rugged, gentle sloping moorland garden of around three acres with magnificent views across Dartmoor. It was once an overgrown two acre field which then evolved to a small orchard for the Queen’s Golden Jubilee with specimen trees and a copse of native

Trelleborg Sealing Solutions in Bridgwater has raised £680 for its chosen charity, Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW).

Members of TSS staff took part in the charity’s Shirty Thirty fundraising campaign, which saw them wearing their loudest and most colourful shirts for a day and donating to the charity. £340 was raised and doubled by the company taking the total to £680. Winners of the best/worst shirt were Dave (Onslow) Kirk and Start Clark.

Julie Draper, Area Fundraiser for CHSW, said: “We were thrilled to hear that the team at TSS in Bridgwater voted unanimously to support Children’s

Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW) is delighted to announce it has the support from two local businesses for its upcoming Rainbow Run Your Way event in June.

Sponsorship of the event by Ann’s Cottage; surf and lifestyle fashion retailer, and The Exeter; healthcare insurance company, means that even more of the money raised by those taking part in the Rainbow Run can go straight to the care and support offered to the children and families that use CHSW’s three children’s hospices.

The Rainbow Run is well known to charity fun run enthusiasts across the south west for giving runners a

Eight year old Sophie Cocking from Plympton has had a post-lockdown chop like no other after growing her hair for over two years in order to benefit two different charities.

At just five years old Sophie told her parents she would like to donate her hair to the Little Princess Trust to enable children who need it to be able to ‘feel like a princess’. Her parents explained it would involve growing it for a long time and then having it cut very short which Sophie was completely on board with, and so the growing began.

Two and a half years later, and after two rescheduled appointments due to

Danish Crown, a meat factory in Bugle St Austell, has made a generous donation of meat and hampers to Little Harbour children’s hospice at Porthpean run by Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW). The company have supported the charity for many years through various fundraising activities and have recently signed up to the CHSW Business Club.

The donation was delivered straight to the kitchen door at Little Harbour by Mark Hall and Alesha Banfield from Danish Crown.

“We wanted to support this great charity as we have done for the past 5+ years."

We feel that as a business within the Cornish

Some playground games just don’t get old and 10 year old Amie from Mount Hawke has proven that skipping certainly has not gone out of fashion, and can even be used to raise some serious cash for good causes.

On returning to school after lockdown skipping was a firm favourite with Amie and her friends at Mount Hawke Academy, enjoying the simple pleasures of being reunited with friends and being able to play together. So much so that skipping became an activity not just for the playground but also one that Amie enjoyed doing in her own time, skipping around her local park in Mount Hawke every

Two young sisters from Uffculme have been helping to look after the environment at the same time as raising money for Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW).

Lizzie Rock-Evans, age seven, and her sister Hannah, age five, did a sponsored litter pick for CHSW after learning more about the charity while donating a bag of items at the Tiverton charity shop.

Mum Sarah said: “They wanted to know more about what the shop was for and when I explained it was raising money for very poorly children they wanted to do something to help.

“The sponsored litter pick was a great way to raise money for a good