Diverse Abilities celebrated raising over £90,000 at its annual gala ball, held at Poole Lighthouse, which was raising funds for the vital services the charity runs to support children and adults living with disabilities in Dorset, and their families.
UKSV donates much-needed food items to Ringwood Food Bank and urges other local companies and the public to support the organisation at this special time of year.
Forest Holme Hospice in Poole celebrated being the first recipients of a new charity initiative by Rick Stein’s restaurant in Sandbanks, when they raised over £1,000 through a recent Coffee Morning.
Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance is once again encouraging supporters to sign up early for their Coast to Coast Cycle Challenge 2019 after another great response last year.
Lord Montagu will be waving off a festive convoy of over 100 VWs on 2 December as they set off from Beaulieu to deliver Christmas presents to youngsters at the Piam Brown unit at Southampton General Hospital.
YMCA Bournemouth raised this amount during their ‘BIG Sleep Easy’, where over 100 staff and directors as a well as fundraisers slept overnight in cardboard shelters.
Local WaterAid supporter, Hazel Taylor, has been given the President’s Award for Outstanding Voluntary Contribution to WaterAid.
Leading Dorset and Somerset law firm, Humphries Kirk, held a designated ‘Dress Down Day’ last month in aid of the Indonesia Tsunami Appeal, donating £946 in total.
Dorchester Agricultural Society, the organisers of Dorset County Show, has raised £16,500 for the Dorset County Hospital Charity’s Cancer Appeal.
Hundreds of scarves and hats knitted by volunteers through Douch Family Funeral Directors are to be distributed to the homeless this winter.
