After 30 years of dedicated service to vulnerable mothers, Trevi is proud to announce the transformation and rebranding of its Plymouth-based service Jasmine Mother’s Recovery, into the newly Ofsted-registered Jasmine Mother & Child Residential Family Assessment Centre.
This evolution marks a significant milestone in their ongoing commitment to supporting women in recovery whilst...
A pair of miniature donkey foals, who were born to mares following The Donkey Sanctuary’s biggest ever rescue operation, are part of the herd enjoying life in a new nature inspired enrichment paddock in the heart of the Sidmouth sanctuary.
Close companions Peanut and Maverick were born at the animal-welfare charity’s donkey hospital near Honiton, in April 2021. Their mums, Sharon and...
15 students from Coombeshead Academy in Newton Abbot, part of Education South West , flew out to Peru over the summer break to spend 4 weeks exploring the country’s vast mountain range, completing projects and expeditions along the way.
The students began their camping adventure in Camp Moray, situated in the mountain Valleys of Moray, a whopping 3600m above sea level. Whilst there...
On Thursday 14 November Lymphoma Action will be holding a virtual Live your Life workshop for anyone in Devon who has been affected by lymphoma, a type of blood cancer.
Lymphoma Action’s Live your Life workshops have been developed to support people who have come to the end of their treatment for lymphoma, or who are being monitored by their healthcare team as their lymphoma doesn’t...
St John Ambulance, the leading first aid charity, is looking for enthusiastic and committed people in locations across Devon to volunteer as Youth Leaders and Youth Helpers. Successful applicants will need to give a minimum of two hours each month and will work with the charity’s youngest volunteers, the Badgers (aged 5 to 11) and Cadets (aged 10 to 17), and guide them as they develop into...
In the past two months, a Devon-based sustainable willow coffin maker has won three prestigious national awards.
Sophia Campbell-Shaw is the founder of Woven Farewells, based in Luppitt in Devon. Woven Farewells offers beautifully unique, hand-crafted willow coffins. Her business model is also a champion for the growing movement towards family-centric funerals. Sophia runs innovative...
Royal Mail has installed a new high-speed Parcel Sortation Machine at its Plymouth Mail Centre, as part of its continued drive to improve efficiency and meet growing demand for next day deliveries. The new machine was unveiled by Rebecca Smith, the MP for South West Devon.
The Mail Centre, which covers the entire PL postcode area across west Devon and east Cornwall, already processes...
A veterans’ self-build project in Plymouth that provides 25 new affordable homes has been completed.
The Stirling House Project, which houses six veterans in need of a new home, is a partnership between LiveWest, Plymouth City Council, and veterans’ charity Alabaré.
The development, based on the site of a former residential care home at Honicknowle Green, has seen a number...
On Sunday 13 October, fundraiser and RAF veteran David Cumberland took part in the Leicester Half Marathon to raise money for the RAF’s leading welfare charity, the RAF Benevolent Fund.
Former Logistics Supplier David Cumberland, 41, from Plymouth, decided to take part in the Leicester Half Marathon to raise money for the charity that supported him when he was in need. David retired...
