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Royal Marines based at Instow have been stepping up their fundraising support for Children’s Hospice South West.

The 11 Amphibious Trails and Training Squadron, which raised more than £500 during a family fun day last summer, has now presented a further £671.71 to the charity following some festive fundraisers held on December 19.

Civilian Kevin Spencer organised in-house competitions and an auction following the camp’s Christmas dinner – all in aid of the charity’s Little Bridge House children’s hospice, in Fremington, which is just down the road from the Arromanches Camp.

He thanked the

Blights Motors in Bideford has raised £615 for Children’s Hospice South West.

The family-run MG dealership in Clovelly Road held a Christmas raffle in the showroom, and also collected donations to the charity from customers, staff and family members.

Around 1,000 raffle tickets were sold and Mary Blight, who ran the garage for many years with husband Fred, also made her own Christmas puddings and sold them to help boost the garage’s fundraising efforts.

“I’ve been making my own Christmas puddings for more than 60 years and they always seem very popular,” said Mary, who this week visited CHSW’s

The Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW) shop in Nailsea, which has been trading since 2007, has temporarily closed due to re-fit to make it bigger and better. However, during closure you’ll still be able to support the charity as it’s opening a pop-up shop during this period.

The temporary shop opened on Friday 11 th January at the old ‘The Blue Room’ having moved across the precinct from Colliers Walk.

Due to the continued success of the shop, the charity is making improvements which will ultimately benefit the children and families supported by CHSW’s local hospice, Charlton Farm in

If you’re taking your training for the 2019 Virgin Money London Marathon up a notch this January, you’re not alone!

Former Somerset County Cricket Club chairman, Andy Nash will be among many running their first ever marathon on Sunday, April 28 – and he returned to the County Ground in Taunton yesterday (Wednesday) to train with members of the Somerset first team.

Andy, who is hoping to raise £26,000 (£1,000 a mile) for Children’s Hospice South West, received some expert advice from Somerset CCC’s Head of Strength & Conditioning, Joel Tratt and spent the morning training with Josh Davey, Eddie

Children’s Hospice South West’s Little Bridge House hospice has been chosen to receive a grant of £746 from the Provincial Grand Lodge of Devonshire Freemasons.

The grant comes through the Masonic Charitable Foundation (MCF), and will be used to help provide respite care and support for the children and their families at the hospice in Fremington, North Devon.

This is just one of 237 grants to hospices around the country from Freemasons. In total £600,000 will be donated to hospices all over England and Wales this year.

Contributions from Freemasons to hospices have exceeded £13million

Award-winning Masterchef Peter Gorton will add a touch of Michelin Star quality to the Falcon Hotel in Bude this winter.

The top West Country chef will be working with the hotel’s head chef Aaron Vanstone to create special two- and three-course menus for a series of charity ‘lunch and learn’ events taking place at the waterfront hotel.

Every Wednesday from January 16 until March 20, diners will be able to sample dishes inspired by Peter, who was the chef/proprietor of the Carved Angel restaurants and cafés in Exeter, Taunton and Dartmouth and The Horn of Plenty in Devon, before starting his

If you’re looking for a new challenge with real bite in 2019, registration for the ‘stunning and savage’ Croyde Ocean Triathlon is now open and entry places are selling fast.

The Olympic distance triathlon, named as one of 220 Triathlon magazine’s ‘top 21 must-do’ triathlons, returns on Sunday, July 14.

The Croyde Ocean Triathlon in association with the Pickwell Foundation features a 1.5km ocean swim along Putsborough beach, followed by a 38km road bike ride from Croyde to Middle Marwood, and a hilly 12km off-road run around Croyde, Baggy Point and Putsborough.

Back for its fifth year, it’s

A ukulele group is set to bring a little sunshine to Newquay this January with a special fundraising concert at a local beach.

The St Merryn Ukes will perform an exclusive charity gig at Lusty Glaze on Monday 28th January in aid of Children’s Hospice South West.

Set up by Dave Healy in April 2017, the St Merryn Ukes started out as just four friends meeting weekly to jam. They now have almost 50 regular members and perform all over the South West at charity festivals, village fêtes, private parties and more.

Mr Healy said, “I’ve been a musician for over 35 years

I wanted to create a group that

Kingswood Preparatory School in Bath chose Children’s Hospice South West as its charity of the year for 2017-2018 and took part in a variety of fundraising activities.

Earlier this year, teacher Luke Hopwood, took part in a 33-hour Thames Challenge - a 184-mile ultra-marathon over four days. He alone raised just shy of £900!

The result of all the school’s combined fundraising is a fantastic £6,669!

Emily Mitchard, Community Fundraiser at CHSW said, “We’d like to say a huge thank you to all of the staff and pupils at Kingswood preparatory school for their wonderful fundraising. It’s been a

Eight colleagues from the Sea Breeze shop at Pentewan Sands campsite took part in a charity skydive and have raised £5063.55 for Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW) while doing so.

The intrepid fundraisers took to the sky from Perranporth airfield with Cornwall Parachute Club on 25 th November and all completed the jump, with some now looking to repeat it in the future and others glad it is complete.

The team from Sea Breeze got friends, family and suppliers involved in raising sponsorship for the charity which runs the Little Harbour children’s hospice at Porthpean in St Austell which is