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The former chairman of Somerset County Cricket Club is set to run the 2019 Virgin Money London Marathon in aid of Children’s Hospice South West.

Andy Nash, who retired in January this year after 14 years at the Specsavers County Championship club – 10 of which he served as chairman – will join Sir Mo Farah and a cast of thousands of runners in the world-famous road race on Sunday, April 28.

He hopes to raise £26,000 – £1,000 a mile – for the charity, which provides hospice care for hundreds of children and their families all over the South West.

Andy, who is also a former director of the ECB

Penryn College student Sophie Grey has raised more than £2,000 for Children’s Hospice South West, following her incredible act of bravery and selflessness in participating in a charity head shave.

Sophie parted way with her long, brown locks in the Penryn College assembly hall last month, as friends, family, and school staff and students watched on in support.

In addition to the money raised for Children’s Hospice South West, Sophie has donated her hair to the Little Princess Trust – a charity which provides wigs to children and young people who have lost their hair due to cancer treatment

Players and staff from Bristol City Football Club made their annual Christmas visit to CHSW’s Charlton Farm on Tuesday 11 th December.

The players and staff spent quality time with the children and families and staff and volunteers as they posed for photos, signed shirts and autographed squad sheets. In the games room, players and children played Fifa and table football, there was plenty of fun in the soft play area, art was created in the Messy Play room and balls were kicked about in the secluded garden.

Bristol City Football Club has been supporting CHSW for the past four seasons and has

Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW) is calling out for people to take part in its Santas on the Run event which is coming to Eden on Sunday 9 th December and is being sponsored by Ocean Group.

The event is a 2km festive fun run around Eden for all the family to take part in, there are no age restrictions and no fitness requirements it is just simply an opportunity to dress as Santa and celebrate the start of the festive season with friends, family or colleagues.

At the heart of the event though is a very important aim – to raise as much money as possible for Little Harbour children’s hospice

Female rowers from Dartmouth Amateur Rowing Club have raised an ‘oarsome’ £18,000 for Children’s Hospice South West – in just seven months!

They set themselves a number of challenges – both on and off the water – in memory of Tillie Pichowski, who received care at the charity’s Little Bridge House hospice in North Devon.

Tillie’s mum Jenny and fellow rowers Jo Langmead, Anna Lloyd, Ali McGrigor, Natasha Knight, Emma Alderman and Chrissy Rugg launched their ‘Tillie’s Stars’ fundraising appeal in April with a 24-hour sponsored row in Dartmouth's Royal Avenue Gardens.

They then rowed from Head of

Exmoor’s centuries old Woolhanger Manor, near Parracombe, will be the stunning setting for a magical Christmas concert in aid of Children’s Hospice South West next month.

The ‘A Very Merry Christmas Concert’ on Friday, December 14 will take place in Woolhanger’s beautifully restored Grade II listed music room, with festive performances by the Exmoor Carolers and North Devon singer-songwriter, Yazzy, who supported Paloma Faith at the Glastonbury Extravaganza this summer. There will also be carols sung by children from Brayford Academy and by the staff choir at Little Bridge House.

The concert

The trusty vessel which will carry a team of Cornish friends on an epic 3000-mile charity row has left their training “home” of Mylor Yacht Harbour for the Canary Islands where the “Atlantic Seamen’s” Talisker Whiskey Challenge will begin.

During the months of intensive training and fundraising for the Urology Foundation and Children’s Hospice South West the team has seen changes with two members of the original line-up unavoidably pulling out and two new members stepping into the breach.

Now expert mariners Andy Grant and Alex Fawcett are combining their considerable forces with Andrew “Bez”

The 2018 Light Up a Life appeal is set to get star billing at Barnstaple’s Christmas Lights switch-on this Sunday (November 18).

The 22nd annual joint fundraising appeal for Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW) and North Devon Hospice (NDH) will be launched on the big stage at 5pm, before the main switch-on at 6pm.

Families who have been supported by the two hospices will light a giant star in the Square; stars will also be lit at each hospice and at the office of the North Devon Gazette office, which has supported the appeal every year since its inception.

Braunton singer Sophie Kerslake will

Seven year old Tayen, from Bridgwater, has a genetic condition known as Neurofibromatosis Type 1. The condition is incurable, and causes tumours to grow on nerves anywhere in her body. She has epilepsy and hydrocephalus, is completely blind, and has already endured several rounds of chemotherapy. She and her family visit Charlton Farm for respite breaks, and her mum Kali told us what the hospice means to Tayen: “She loves everyone there, she gets so excited. We stay there as a family, although when we’re there, Tayen doesn’t want me or her dad or her brothers near her. She sees it as her time

Five brave colleagues from Bright Solicitors in Plymouth and Ivybridge are going to be donning their trainers as they plan to run 19km on 9 th December to raise vital funds for Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW), the firm’s Charity of the Year.

The team were inspired to take part in CHSW’s Santas on the Run fun run which is happening at the Eden Project on 9 th December but decided to extend the challenge to incorporate Santas on the Run into a 19km route and will be donning Santa suits to run in.

Andy Sewell from Bright Solicitors explained their plans “The five of us will start the