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West Country accountants and financial planners Old Mill are sponsoring Children’s Hospice South West’s 2016 £50 challenge in a bid to raise £25,000 for the North Devon based charity.

The £50 Challenge is an annual event where local businesses compete against each other to turn a £50 start-up investment into as much money as they can over a three month time frame – April to June – with all money raised going directly to Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW).

Old Mill – who are the current record holders – will fund the £50 start up investment for all teams taking part, co-ordinate the

GKN Aerospace Filton and Western Approach have been raising funds for Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW) by rising to the £50 challenge!

CHSW’s £50 Challenge is all about companies using their business skills and innovation to generate as much money as possible for the charity. CHSW provides the initial £50 start-up investment and then it’s over to your company to raise as much as it can. This is a great way for people to put their business brain and money-making acumen to the test to grow this amount as much as legally and ethically possible.

The team that raises the most each calendar

Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW) can continue to support local families after receiving a brand new bespoke minibus as part of LV= Brokers’ BIG HEART Charity Giveaway.

The charity, which provides respite and specialist care for children and young people with life-limiting conditions and their families, won the LV= Broker minibus through an online vote by the insurer’s broker partners after it was nominated by South West broker, Higos Insurance Services.

LV= Broker Managing Director, Mike Crane, hand delivered the specially designed minibus to the charity’s Charlton Farm hospice near

Trevor McCurdie first started the idea of Ride for Precious Lives ten years ago. He shares with us his journey in creating this special event.

‘I was invited to an open evening at Charlton Farm shortly before it opened in 2007. It really struck me how much help families need if they had a child with a life limiting condition, and the lack of government funding for children’s hospices shocked me. I put a note in the back of my head to try and do something to help if I ever got the chance.

About a year later I had just started to cycle after recovering from an injury, and so the idea of a

European Tour player Chris Wood’s Ryder Cup golf bag used in the 2016 Ryder Cup in Hazeltine is to be auctioned for charity. The bag has been signed by the entire European Ryder Cup Team, including Rory McIlroy and Sergio Garcia.

One of the premier men's golf tournaments in the world, the Ryder Cup occurs once every two years. With the competition based on a friendly rivalry between the best American and European players of the game, the venue of this golf tournament alternates between the two continents. Different locations bid on the honour to host the Ryder Cup, meaning that each match

Frank Fielding, Joe Bryan, Mark Little, Korey Smith and Jamie Paterson visited Bridge Learning Campus on Wednesday to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Charlton Farm - Children’s Hospice South West.

The local school has been working tirelessly to raise funds for the charity over the course of the academic year, and their efforts have seen them raise £1,000.

In addition to the school’s cheque presentation, Olly Slym from CHSW informed the players that their various fundraisers has seen an incredible £75,000 be donated to the Hospice since the partnership was formed two years ago.

Slym said

A decade of helping children with life-limiting conditions is being marked in 2017.

Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW) was set up more than 25 years ago when Eddie and Jill Farwell came up with the idea to create a children’s hospice to help families in the South West.

The first hospice to be built was Little Bridge House in Devon in 1995, but it was soon oversubscribed.

In 2002 the charity launched The Babe Appeal to raise £11million to build Charlton Farm in Wraxall.

The eight-bed hospice opened its doors in April 2007 offering families a wide range of support every day of the year

Cornwall Glass Redruth has recently donated £1,008 to Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW).

The donation was raised through an open day held in December for existing customers and the general public. Mince pies and mulled wine were enjoyed as well as a Christmas raffle which visitors could enter, as well as customers and colleagues from across all branches of the business.

Santander Redruth also match funded what had been raised meaning that the £504 of donations from the open day was then topped up by

RGB Building Supplies, which has stores in Holsworthy and Bude, have announced it has selected Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW) as its chosen charity for 2017.

RGB had a phenomenal response to its ‘Christmas Present Appeal’ in aid of CHSW at the end of 2016, when more than 250 gifts were donated by RGB customers and staff. The builders merchants have now said it is looking forward to continuing this support for CHSW.

This year, RGB staff will be taking part in a number of CHSW fundraising activities and will also be holding regular events to boost the amount raised.

To kick-start the

From 30 March, the Princesshay Centre in Exeter will be collecting clothing in support of the Children’s Hospice South West as part of the Spring Spree event.

The centre will then continue the clothing drop with CHSW throughout 2017.

Visitors to Princesshay will be able to drop off their unwanted clothing to be sold in Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW) shops, Princesshay’s charity of the year, before hitting the stores during Spring Spree, an exclusive evening of shopping