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Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW) is excited to announce that it has the support of Fugro as a sponsor for its Moonlight Memory Walk which is returning to Falmouth on 30 th March.

The Moonlight Memory Walk is a 5 mile sponsored walk which has been held annually for the past nine years to raise vital funds for CHSW which runs Little Harbour children’s hospice in St Austell. Historically a ladies-only event this year’s special 10 th anniversary walk will be welcoming men to join for the first time. There is also the option for people to walk the 5 miles in their own time and then join

More than 200 walkers navigated their way across Exmoor in the 27th annual Rotary StarTrek Challenge on Saturday night.

A total of 46 teams, made up of 240 walkers, took part in this year’s event, organised by the two Ilfracombe Rotary clubs in aid of Children’s Hospice South West and North Devon Hospice and many other local charities and good causes.

Paul Williams, chairman of the organising committee, said: “Despite the atrocious weather conditions on Saturday night, they all persevered and pushed on with the challenge.

“Every one of the participants deserves well-earned praise for taking

Paul and Renate O’Donnell of Wood ‘n’ Things have supported Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW) for 16 years and raised tens of thousands of pounds for the charity. Much to their delight, the couple recently won £1,000 in the charity’s weekly lottery.

The husband and wife from Cleeve first began fundraising for CHSW during the Babe Appeal - the campaign to raise funds to build its Charlton Farm hospice in Wraxall. Renate said, “It was our late neighbour who originally suggested we support CHSW. We looked into it and felt it was a hugely deserving cause.”

Paul & Renate have tirelessly

Fred Thomas, AKA Skinners Brewery mascot Betty Stogs, is in full training for this year’s London marathon which is now only 7 weeks away.

Fresh off stage from his stint in Sticker’s panto The Frog Prince, by day Fred can be found working at MA Grigg Country Store near Sticker. However, by night Fred has been pounding the streets around Cornwall in all weathers training for this year’s London Marathon which he is running in aid of Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW).

Fred will be running the marathon alongside his ‘Cousin Jacks’ and friends Vivian Bray and Simon Knowles who will be running

Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW) will be arresting, charging and putting on trial some well-known business people from the local area who, if found guilty of their entirely fictitious crimes, will have to raise a bail of £999 each to be set free.

Jail and Bail has become an annual fundraising event held by CHSW to raise vital funds for its Little Harbour children’s hospice in St Austell which supports children and families from Plymouth and Cornwall.

Those taking part in the charity’s entertaining Jail and Bail fundraiser at the Guildhall in Plymouth on 15 th March include; Arthur Greg

An exhibition by beginner and experienced artists opens at an art gallery near Wellington on Sunday, March 10.

The ‘Show & Tell’ exhibition at The Old Brick Workshop in Higher Poole is being held to raise money for Children’s Hospice South West.

The work on show has been created by participants on courses run by Wellington artist Claire Western and will showcase a variety of mediums and techniques.

Claire said: “The artists on the courses vary from complete beginners to already competent painters and there has been so much good work done that I think it needs to be seen.

“Lots of people who

The Cholwill family, from Bridgerule, have now been making their wooden red nosed reindeer in aid of Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW) for six years.

Their inspiration for creating this fundraising scheme was through the sad loss of their beloved son, brother and uncle, Mark, some years ago. However, little did they realise that the reindeer were going to be such a popular item to buy at Christmas time for so many people.

Six years ago, Colin made his first red nosed reindeer for a charity that has become very special to the Cholwill family, that of Little Harbour the only CHSW hospice in

The community of St Erth will be coming together to celebrate the Cornish daffodil in March when they host their second Spring Festival.

St Erth Parish Church will be home to various displays of Cornish Daffodils which will be on show from 29th – 31 st March. Money raised from the festival will be split between St Erth Parish Church and Little Harbour children’s hospice run by Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW).

This Spring Festival is being organised by and involves the whole village community including St. Erth School, Brownies and other youth groups from the village.

Jill Sharpless, a

Local independent house builder, Devonshire Homes, has raised thousands of pounds for Children’s Hospice South West during a two-year fundraising drive.

The Tiverton-based company raised £25,154.96 to help CHSW care for more than 500 families across the South West, providing respite care and short breaks, as well as emergency, palliative and end-of-life care from the charity's three hospices in North Devon, North Somerset and Cornwall.

Devonshire Homes donated £50 to CHSWfor every open-market sale during 2017 and 2018. Staff also took part in a variety of fundraising events including cycle

RGB Building Supplies’ Barnstaple branch came out on top of a company-wide fundraising event in aid of Children’s Hospice South West.

All 20 branches went head-to-head to see which could raise the most amount of money as part of the charity's £50 Challenge, raising a fantastic £2,568 in total.

But the Barnstaple team topped the leaderboard by raising £538 of the overall total, holding a breakfast morning and power tool raffle, and asking customers to make a donation to guess how many people they could fit into a small RGB van.

Lee Kift, branch manager at RGB Barnstaple, said: “The £50