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Take part in Virtual Rainbow Run for children’s hospice

27 May 2020 chsw Events, Fundraising

Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW) is asking people to help spread more rainbows by taking part in the charity’s first ever Virtual Rainbow Run next month.

CHSW has had to cancel its three colourful fun runs in Bristol, Exeter and Newquay this summer due to COVID, losing an estimated £150,000 in fundraising.

Instead, it is asking people to ‘get rainbowed up and run’ their own 5k Rainbow Run on the weekend of June 20 - 21.

Show your love for key workers and CHSW with new charity wristband

18 May 2020 chsw Fundraising

People can show their support for key workers – and raise money for Children’s Hospice South West and other charities – by wearing one of two specially-created new charity wristbands.

The blue bands come in a choice of two designs – ‘Key Workers are Heroes’ and ‘Rock the Lock Down’ – and cost just £3 (plus 50p postage), with 80 per cent going to charity.

Bereaved dad’s epic 205-mile lockdown cycle in memory of son

29 April 2020 chsw Fundraising

A 71-year-old Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW) supporter who has ‘done it all for the charity’ is set to take on what could be his biggest challenge yet – without even leaving his house! 

Bereaved dad Rick Dean, from Bude, has ran and walked thousands of miles, jumped out an aeroplane and abseiled down one of the UK’s highest waterfalls, raising huge amounts of money for the charity that supported him and his wife Julie following the death of their son Kierran.