The Sporting Bears Motor Club raised an amazing £4,120 for Diverse Abilities at this year’s Wheels Festival in Bournemouth by giving car lovers the chance to ride in a luxury car.
Dorset Cancer Care Foundation’s (DCCF) annual fundraising drive has seen impromptu tea parties popping up all over.
Faith Links, an interfaith organisation operating in Bournemouth and Poole, donated two full bags of headscarves for cancer patients to the Royal Bournemouth Hospital.
The Louis Ross Foundation was established in memory of the Canford School pupil whose life was tragically cut short aged 17 in a skiing accident in the French Alps in December 2015.
Bus driver Julie Wood allowed a colleague to shave off her red barnet for charity.
> On 26 June 2016 at 3pm in Wimborne Minster, the Mariposa Trust is holding a Saying Goodbye service.
Pupils from Broadstone Middle School recently visited Langside School, the charity run school and part of Diverse Abilities.
A 21-strong party from Colten Care’s Amberwood House residential and nursing home in Ferndown completed a sponsored walk from Baiter Park to the lifting bridge at Poole Quay and back to raise money for Forest Holme Hospice.
Diverse Abilities is gearing up for its annual Chinese Dragon Boat Race taking place across Poole Park’s lake on Sunday 10 July between 10am and 3.30pm. The event, supported and sponsored by Spectrum Property Care, will be raising vital funds for the only charity that supports children and adults with disabilities in Dorset.
A rowing challenge event on 14 July, which sees teams of four complete a 5,000-metre distance in 30 minutes, has been launched by the Bournemouth Hospital Charity.