News

After completing the London Marathon last year and raising over £46,000 for Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW) Fred Thomas, AKA Skinners Brewery mascot Betty Stogs, is now in full training for Ride for Precious Lives.

Ride for Precious Lives is an annual, sponsored cycling event put on by CHSW which is now in its 12 th year and usually sees around 75 cyclists take on the challenge. The cycle covers three counties in three days stopping off at three children’s hospices over the 205 miles. Fred will start alongside the other riders at Little Harbour on 10 th July, stopping off at Little Bridge

Children’s Hospice South West’s (CHSW) Little Harbour in St Austell has recently taken delivery of a van load of toys and gifts that were collected at Lusty Glaze throughout January.

Lusty Glaze beach and restaurant at Newquay organised a toy amnesty throughout January where people could drop off unwanted toys and gifts throughout the month in exchange for a free tea or coffee. Toys and gifts collected were then delivered to Little Harbour children’s hospice, brand new items will stay at the hospice with pre-loved items going to CHSW charity shops to help raise vital funds.

Andi Millson

Staff and customers at Langford Lakes Christmas Tree Farm in Somerset have raised £3,902 for Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW).

The family-run farm, based at Middle Hill Farm in Langford Budville near Wellington, offered visitors hot chocolates, teas, coffees and mince pies in return for a donation to the charity during November and December.

Nick Hendy from Langford Lakes Christmas Tree Farm, said: “We’re over the moon that, with the help of our customers, we managed to collect £3,902 for CHSW. This is a fantastic amount of money. In 2018, we raised £3,662 for the charity, so we’re

Mark Crawford, Managing Director and Founder of print management solutions company, Officemark, has pledged to donate 1% of the annual revenue to Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW).

Based in Weston-super-Mare, Officemark is a print equipment provider who prides itself on offering contracts and solutions that are right for the customer and their organisation.

Amanda Gallagher, Corporate Partnerships Fundraiser at CHSW said: “We’d like to thank Officemark for their wonderful support and wish Mark every success growing his business. CHSW relies almost entirely on voluntary contributions to

High-flying trampoline parks in Devon and Cornwall have raised more than £1,000 for Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW).

iBounce in Exeter and Bodmin sold special wristbands to customers throughout 2019, raising £1,134 for the charity, which provides respite breaks for more than 500 children with life-limiting conditions.

Money raised will enable families to make precious memories together at the charity’s three South West hospices in Barnstaple, St Austell and Bristol.

Ben Cheriton, managing director of iBounce, said: “CHSW has been our chosen charity to support for the last two years and

Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW) is opening a new shop at Unit 2 Townsend Road on 14 th February at 10am.

The shop will be open 9am to 5pm Monday to Saturday and 10am to 4pm on Sunday and will stock a wide variety of good quality pre-loved items including, clothes, accessories, collectables, toys and games and books and media.

CHSW Area Manager Rhian Timms said: “We are delighted to be opening a shop in Shepton Mallet, we have already received a wonderful warm welcome from the local community, with offers of stock donations and a lot of interest in the shop which is absolutely fantastic

Nicola Hague has been pounding the streets of Plymouth in training for this year’s Virgin London Marathon on Sunday 26th April.

Nicola has a very special reason to be taking part in the event and be tirelessly fundraising alongside training and that is all down to her son Ethan.

Ethan was born with an incurable disease called Tay-Sachs which there is no cure or treatment for, sadly Ethan died one month before his third birthday. During Ethan’s battle with the disease his mum Nicola, dad Simon and older brother Callum received support from Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW) and its Little

Announcing his racing return earlier this month, electric land speed record holder Nick Ponting is teaming up with Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW) to launch an exciting initiative.

Racing at Silverstone circuit in the highly competitive BRSCC Mazda MX5 Championship, a scheme has been launched to let as many of Nicks supporters and fans to have their own name on his racing car for just £10.00 and Nick has pledged to donate 100% of all money generated to support CHSW.

Commenting earlier this month, Nick said: “I always wanted to get as many fans involved as possible and had this idea a

Families are being invited to get their tickets for the South West’s brightest’ 5k charity fun runs taking place in Bristol, Newquay and Exeter this summer.

Registration for Children’s Hospice South West’s Rainbow Runs is now open, with a 25 per cent discount available for those who sign up early.

More than 3,000 people walked, jogged or ran through a series of coloured paint stations at last year’s event, raising £178,000 for local children with life-limiting conditions and their families.

This year, the charity hopes even more people will take part in the colourful fun to help provide vital

At the end of 2018, two members of Clevedon-based Triangle Networks visited their local children’s hospice – Charlton Farm in Wraxall - having decided they were going to run a half marathon and raise funds to support the cause. They came away from their visit inspired to do more and pledged to take on, not just one, but 12 half marathons!

Bob Irwin, Sales Director, and Jamie Butt, Business Development Manager, put their bodies on the line and completed their set of half marathons throughout 2019 and have raised a total of £1,480.00 so far.

Jamie said: “We wanted to do a challenge that was