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All in Charity
Westerleigh Cemetery & Crematorium is marking World Alzheimer’s Month by pledging to make a donation to Dementia UK, the specialist dementia nursing charity, for every memorial purchase made over a six-week period.
After a four-year hiatus, the epic two-day cycling challenge, Hilly Hundred is back with a bang for its tenth birthday. This September (Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd), participants will yet again don their fabulously fancy-dress costumes to brave the elements and take on the gruelling hills of Cornwall in aid of breast cancer education charity, CoppaFeel!
With a valiant team effort by staff and families of residents living at a specialist care home in Plymouth producing £575 in sponsorship money through a 24-hour bike ride to help fund a specialist new interactive mobile entertainment unit for residents living with dementia, just £225 more is now needed to reach the team’s final target.
A sunshine safari to Longleat proved to be just the ticket for a group of Weston-super-Mare school children, thanks to the local Rotary Club and coach operator Bakers Dolphin.
Westerleigh Group has named Dementia UK, the specialist dementia nursing charity, as its new corporate charity partner and aims to raise £120,000 over the next year to support its vital work.
The family of amateur sailor Simon Speirs, who tragically lost his life when swept overboard while taking part in a round-the-world yacht race, have donated £140,000 to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI).
Hoteliers in Bristol have given a huge helping hand to a charity which supports thousands of people in the city who are affected by autism.
A Bristol law firm illuminated its head office in red to help shed light on encephalitis, a potentially devastating infection of the brain.
The British Red Cross has launched an emergency fundraising appeal in response to two devastating earthquakes in Turkey and Syria.
Christmas came early for a Bristol-based charity when it received a £5,000 donation from Westerleigh Group, which is headquartered just outside the city.
Members of Cotham-based humanitarian organisation Aid Box Community have given a behind-the-scenes tour of their hub to local housebuilders, Redcliffe Homes, in thanks for their donation of £9,000 given to help them support local refugees.
Children at all 24 of the Mama Bear’s Day Nurseries across Bristol, Somerset and Devon had a lovely time helping raise money for this year’s Children in Need with a variety of imaginative and fun-packed activities keeping them busy.
Bristol-based loneliness charity Marmalade Trust has invited some of the youngest members of society to make their own creative contributions to hampers that the charity is currently putting together for people who would otherwise be on their own at Christmas.
Christmas came early for the Bristol Autism Support organisation when it was named by the Bristol Hoteliers Association as its charity partner for 2023.
Wellington-based dementia care home Camelot House and Lodge has contributed over £130 to their local hospice’s autumn fundraising campaign after a ‘Wear it yellow’ day that saw the whole home drenched in sunshine colours and a range of fun money-making activities laid on.
A fund-raiser in aid of the charity Neuroblastoma UK has raised £736 thanks to Mama Bear’s nursery and pre-school on Pembroke Road in Soundwell, Bristol, as staff and younger children waved this year’s leavers off to embark on their journey through ‘big school.’
