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The driving force behind North Devon’s annual August bank holiday Mini rally has been named as a regional winner in this year’s Pride of Britain Awards.

Terry Baker has been raising money and smiles for charity for nearly a quarter of a century – including around half-a-million-pounds for Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW).

He was featured as one of four shortlisted Fundraiser of the Year finalists on ITV Westcountry this week but announced as the regional winner on tonight’s (Friday, October 5) show.

Children’s Hospice South West supporters Clive and Pam Flood are celebrating a £1,000 win in the charity’s weekly lottery draw.

The Exeter couple only started playing the Children’s Hospice South West lottery 12 months ago after a chance knock on the door by a charity promoter.

Beer Village Festival took place on the weekend of 8^th-10^th June in Devon and was a huge success. Organised by Beer Group of Friends, the Charity Weekend raised over £10,000 which was shared between two local charities, Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW) and Seaton Friends Hospicecare at Home.

Since May 2016, the team at international legal practice Osborne Clarke's Bristol office has fully embraced its commitment to its chosen charity, Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW) in raising vital funds and awareness through a myriad of events.

Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW) held its annual Jail and Bail fundraising event in Exeter on Friday 21st September, which raised over £11,000 for the local children’s charity.

Nikki Isbell, Senior Care Team Leader at Little Harbour children’s hospice at Porthpean is taking on the Banger Rally Challenge Gib or Bust with her husband and two friends and will be travelling across five countries in five days to raise money for Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW).

The team will be dressed, along with their suitably decorated car, as the Little Harbour Heroes and quite rightly so.

A Buckfastleigh couple are celebrating after winning more than £5,000 in the Children’s Hospice South West Lottery.

Norman and Jacqui Elliott started playing the charity’s weekly Lottery more than ten years ago, although Jacqui says they never expected to win anything: “I didn’t realise it was a Lottery at first, I thought of it as just making a regular donation. In fact, when I took the phone call, I thought the charity were calling to ask us for more money, not to tell Norman he’d won something!”

Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW) will be arresting, charging and putting on trial some well-known business people in the area who, if found guilty of their entirely fictitious crimes, will have to raise a bail of £999 each to be set free. Funds raised on the day will help support the work of its Little Bridge House children’s hospice in Barnstaple.

In July, the 1st Bishopston Beaver Scout Colony challenged themselves to walk a combined distance of 5,895 meters - the height Mount of Kilimanjaro - by climbing the hill at Blaise Castle estate, finishing at the castle, to raise vital funds for Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW).

Golfers at Lansdown Golf Club exceeded expectations recently at the club’s charity golf day when over £7,000 was raised to be donated to Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW) and CLIC Sargent.

The event took place on Friday 18^th August with over 100 people making up 35 teams playing on the course.