FORCE Cancer Charity

Tickets have gone on sale for this year’s Classics Galore! concert at the University of Exeter Great Hall on Saturday November 14 and the best seats are selling fast.

The event has been held every two years since 2007 and has raised £50,000 for local cancer charity FORCE.

The show regularly attracts sell-out crowds of more than a thousand and spaces in the gallery have nearly all been snapped up already with only 25 of the £18 seats remaining.

Tickets for the auditorium are priced at £16 and £14 and are available from Exeter Visitor Information and Tickets (EVIT) at...

The award-winning FORCE Cancer Charity shop in Heavitree will close on Friday (August 21) for essential refurbishments.

Building work will begin on September 1 and the first phase is due to be completed in time for a partial re-opening in the first week of October.

Phase 2 should be done by the end of October so that the shop can fully re-open in early November.

Shop manager Anna Heard said: “It’s our last trading day this Friday. We have lots of clearance bargains going on including 10 CDs for a £1, all children's books 10p, adults’ books 40p and all clothes...

A group of friends who all went to Dawlish School and share a love of cycling set out today (Friday July 31) to ride from John O’Groats to Land’s End in just seven days.

Brothers Ross and Simon Szender, Euan Stronge, Ross Williams, Mike Smith and Sam Partridge will cover more than 900 miles from the tip of mainland Scotland to the most westerly point in Cornwall.

They’re doing it to raise money for FORCE Cancer Charity and reached their initial target of £1,500 in sponsorship before they set out for Scotland.

In his job as an electrician for Scottish and Southern...

The FORCE Cancer Charity Shop in Heavitree’s Fore Street has again been named the best in the country.

It’s won the award as the most profitable in its category from the Charity Retail Association.

The news comes as FORCE announces that the shop is set to close at the end of August for approximately 10 weeks.

“We need to carry out some essential building work and we can’t do that without shutting the shop completely,” said manager Anna Heard.

But she reassured customers: “We won’t be doing anything to change the identity of our shop. It will still be the...

Fifteen hundred cyclists will be heading out of Topsham on Sunday June 28 in an event that has raised more than £300,000 for local cancer charity FORCE in the past four years.

They will leave the rugby club from 8am onwards to tackle 100 or 55 mile routes around the Devon countryside on the annual Nello ride.

This is the biggest fundraising event in the charity’s calendar and its popularity attracts riders back year after year.

Adele Needham from Exeter, an emergency planner for Devon and Cornwall with the Environment Agency, has ridden the shorter course for the...

Martin Cooper, former head of cancer services in Exeter, has been appointed as the new patron of FORCE.

Mr Cooper retired as Medical Director at the Royal Devon and Exeter Foundation Trust in March.

He becomes only the third patron of the Exeter cancer charity after former diplomat Sir Anthony Parsons and FORCE co-founder Chris Rowland, who died last year.

“Chris and I worked closely in patient care. He was an incredibly innovative individual. He got the charity off the ground and it is amazing to see what it has grown into. FORCE is a remarkable asset to the...

“It was harder than I expected, great fun and I’d definitely do it again.”

That’s the verdict from FORCE supporter Tracey Frankum after her trek of a lifetime along the Great Wall of China.

Tracey has returned to Exeter armed with a wealth of stories, hundreds of photographs and more than £1,500 raised for the city's own cancer charity from five days of walking on one of the world’s most iconic structures.

“It was an amazing experience,” she said. “The first day was in quite a commercialised area with the sort of scenery you’re used to seeing in pictures. It...

For the third year, Devon based Solicitors, Gilbert Stephens, is entering a team for the Nello, as well as sponsoring the event and supplying a band of volunteers to help on the day. On June 28th teams of cyclists will head off on the Nello 57 or 100 mile bike ride across the county, to raise much needed funds for FORCE cancer charity.

Around 1500 cyclists will start the ride at Topsham Rugby Club and will make their way up through Devon, to Tiverton Morchard Road, Crediton and all the way back to the finish line in Topsham. The aim of the day is to come together to raise money to...

Yesterday (28 May) marked the first anniversary of a unique fundraising idea to raise money for Exeter cancer charity FORCE.

The Fez campaign led by Martin Lynn has brought in close to £20,000.

It’s a remarkable achievement by the Exeter father-of-three, who is battling a rare cancer of the immune system.

He and some of his close lieutenants in the Fez Army got together for a celebratory lunch to mark the occasion and begin planning for the next year.

“It's been the most incredible 12 months of my life,” said Martin. “May 28th 2014 was the day I walked...

Exeter mum Tracey Frankum has joined the Fez Army to raise funds for FORCE by trekking along the Great Wall of China.

She sets out this weekend on the trip of a lifetime that will involve five days of walking along part of the 13,000-mile structure.

Each day she will trek along the stony, steep and sometimes slippery path. Some sections are renovated and others not as the wall twists and winds its way along the mountains, interspersed with crumbling watchtowers.

It is described as demanding but also very rewarding, particularly on a clear day when you can look at...