The garden at Pine Lodge in Tiverton has come a long way since Hospiscare opened the Day Care Unit based on Post Hill in 2011.
What was little more than a dumping ground just over a year ago is almost unrecognisable today.
A team of volunteers have worked tirelessly to take the garden in hand and transform the green space ready for an open garden event being held on 8 June.
The garden had been an overrun mass of trees, bushes and rabbits, but has since become a haven for patients at the unit, which is now beginning to burst with spring colour.
Charity-run cookery classes which have helped novices in Devon to fend for themselves in the kitchen, will be running again this June.
The Hospiscare Catering Team at Dryden Road Exeter began the series of courses in September last year and have taught people, many who have never had to cook for themselves, basic culinary skills.
The courses are for anyone who has found themselves alone following a bereavement or are looking after a poorly partner and doesn’t have the first idea how to prepare and cook a basic meal.
80-year-old Eric Smith from Honiton completed the...
More than £600 was presented to Hospiscare after a mufti day was held at Devon County Council recently.
Staff at County Hall ditched work wear and dressed down to raise £669 for the Devon-based charity which was presented to Hospiscare Corporate Fund Raiser John Arnold from Chairman of the Council Jerry Brook recently.
Hospiscare gives high-quality care and dedicated free-of-charge support to people who are terminally ill in Exeter, Mid and East Devon.
Leading Oxfordshire rose-grower Robert Mattock will pursue his search for lost roses at the Rose Festival and Garden Fair to be held at Cadhay near Ottery St Mary, Devon on bank holiday Monday 27 May. Visitors to the show are invited to bring their own plants along for identification at the Robert Mattock Roses stand at the festival.
With a catalogue of over 800 varieties, Robert Mattock Roses is one of the leading stockists of old roses in Europe, yet many more varieties have been lost down the years and Robert will present prizes to the three that he judges to be the most...
BBC Radio Devon presenter David FitzGerald will be taking part in the Hospiscare Men’s Walk this month as part of his intense health and fitness campaign.
FitzGerald, who presents the interactive lunch, has been challenged by the BBC’s ‘Inside Out South West’ to take on a new healthier lifestyle. The DJ, who had been a stranger to exercise untill recently, has decided to walk the 10 kilometer route for the local charity as part of his new fitness regime.
To the listeners of his show David FitzGerald is better known for his love of food then his active lifestyle, but has...
With the Hospiscare Men’s Walk only a couple of weeks away, the charity has announced that registration opened on Thursday 28 February for the Ladies’ Starlight Walk.
The event, which is taking place on Saturday 11 May in Exmouth, has a new name, new route and new start time but the same feeling of togetherness, as ladies raise money for the charity which provides end of life care for patients in Exeter, mid and East Devon.
Formerly the Midnight Walk, the new Starlight Walk, which starts and finishes at Exmouth rugby club and is sponsored by estate agents Whitton and Laing...
The Exeter Daily talks to Lisa Boucher from Exmouth about her recent challenge to scale Ben Nevis with five friends, Ella Mills, Jane Bing, Nadine Richardson, Jan Ackerman and Petrina Shorrock, in aid of Hospiscare.
Why did you choose to raise money for Hospiscare? We all have people in our lives that have been affected by cancer. Exmouth and Lympstone Hospice is providing care to local people during their treatment and also making things as comfortable for them as well as their family. We wanted to raise money for a local charity so it stays close to home. Why did you choose to climb...
To help celebrate Mole Avon Trading Limited’s 40th anniversary and their Ruby Appeal for Hospiscare, the company teamed up with Crediton Milling and together have raised £1,241 for the local charity.
During a four week period at Mole Avon’s retail branches in Axminster, Crediton and Okehampton for every bag of Layers Mash or Layers Pellets sold 50p would be donated to Hospiscare.
Crediton Milling, based at Fordton, Crediton is one of the few remaining family owned and run independent feed mills in the Westcountry and the have been supplying animal compound feed to Mole Avon...
Hospices across England providing end of life care for children and adults have been awarded a share of £60 million government funding to improve care environments and settings.
A total of 176 hospices will benefit from the fund, which will be used to invest in creating new spaces for patients, their families and carers, whilst also supporting the care hospices provide to people in their own homes.
Successful initiatives awarded funding in the South West include:
• £509,592 for a new day care unit building at Hospicare in Exeter...
