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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.

Making up the winning team were Dan Palomeque, Gavin Palomeque, Curtis Silcox and James Ledger.

The club was aiming to raise £5000 to be split between the two charities however Captain John Butler was delighted to have raised nearer £7300. A lively auction after the day of golf saw some fantastic

The Fundraising Team from Children’s Hospice South West are delighted to receive support from two businesses for one of the charity’s upcoming Bubble Rush events which will be returning to Newnham Park in Plympton on Sunday 23 rd September.

Services Design Solution (SDS), based in The Millfields, and Viridor based in Plympton, will each be sponsoring one of the bubble stations around the route and will have a presence on the day along with main event sponsor GA Solicitors.

Having sponsorship from these businesses means that even more money raised by people taking part in the Bubble Rush can

From Monday 20 th August, for four consecutive weeks, CHSW’s Little Steps store in Bristol will have some fantastic offers for customers. To kick-start this initiative, throughout the first week you can buy three items and get the cheapest one free!

Conveniently located on Zetland Road in Redland, the Little Steps shop contains a treasure trove of items for ever-growing children from 0 to 15 years old. As well as clothing, the store is well stocked with toys, games, books and baby equipment. It’s a great resource for the community and is a place to meet other local parents or take some time

Geoff Harry who works at RGB Building Supplies’ Porthleven branch and RGB customer Steve Dyer recently swapped hard hats for helmets and cycled from John O’Groats to Lands End raising a fantastic £4,684 for Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW).

The 1,000-mile journey took the pair 12 days to complete and saw them ride through Scotland, Wales and England. Geoff and Steve, who works for Helston based monumental masons J H Ching, rode unassisted and carried everything they needed.

In addition to raising funds for CHSW, Geoff and Steve took on the challenge to celebrate their 60th and 50th

The concept of ‘whole family care’ is a key part of the service at Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW). Siblings, in particular, often share a special bond and the loss of a brother or sister will have a lifelong impact.

CHSW operates a Sibling Service at each hospice, providing dedicated support and care to the brothers and sisters of children who have life-limiting conditions. The service was established in recognition of their needs and provides much valued and dedicated care.

CHSW’s Charlton Farm hospice, based in North Somerset, has been kindly gifted a brand new 7-seat Renault Scenic by

Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW) is delighted to receive a donation of £16,000 from ship repairers and marine specialists A&P Falmouth, the money was raised through the company’s Cycle to Work Scheme.

The scheme was set up 10 years ago and allowed employees at A&P, based at the Docks in Falmouth, to benefit from the loan of bikes and cycle equipment and to then pay a fair price at the end of the loan period to own the items. It was agreed that the money paid towards the ownership of the items would be donated to charities.

A number of small donations to charitable causes has been made over

Children's Hospice South West is delighted to have been chosen as one of the charity partners for CITY Community Trust, Exeter’s leading health and wellbeing charity.

Along with Age UK Exeter, Julian House and Force Cancer, Children’s Hospice South West,have been selected to receive official partner status following an open application process.

The charities, all based in Devon, offer support to those most in need across a wide range of people in the local community and will support each other with cross party services and promotional support for fundraising activities. The primary focus will

Local students from Launceston College have finished the end of their academic year by doing their bit for a local charity.

10 students taking part in the National Citizen Service (NCS), a national program designed to help young people be heard and build their confidence and skills, dedicated their charity project to raising funds for Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW) as well as Kids Cancer Charity.

NCS Devon Group 3 spent four weeks together, with the final two weeks working on a community charity project. Over the two weeks they organised various charity fundraising events from scratch to

Castle Veterinary Group based in Launceston has chosen to support Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW) as it’s charity of the year and launched the partnership at the Launceston Agricultural Show.

The group decided to choose the children’s charity because of the work that they do supporting local children with life limiting and life-threatening illnesses and their families – making the most of short and precious lives.

CHSW has three children’s hospices in the south west; Little Bridge House in Barnstaple, Charlton Farm near Bristol and Little Harbour in St Austell and is supporting over 500

The organisers of Little Bridge Stock, a family festival held at the Old Station Inn, Blackmoor Gate, have handed over a donation of £2176.61 to Children’s Hospice South West (CHSW).

This was the seventh year of the annual festival which hosted performances from a range of local bands and musicians across two stages including Yazzy, The Big Fat Blues Band, Coast to Coast, The 5.15, Jolly Joker and Good Company. The festival was free to attend and proved very popular with families from the local area.

Organisers of the event are also excited to announce the date for next year’s festival which