£5,000 grants available for Dorset groups helping refugees
The Dorset Welcome Fund is offering grants to voluntary groups and charities who are helping asylum seekers and refugees in the county.
The Dorset Welcome Fund is offering grants to voluntary groups and charities who are helping asylum seekers and refugees in the county.
Russell Shivas has joined Lewis-Manning Hospice Care as Director of Finance and Operations.
This will be a quiz night with a difference as teams representing the two local charities go head-to-head.
Joshie Cadbury, 12, has raised £3,000 for University Hospitals Dorset by selling his woolly creations to support the charity’s epilepsy fund.
The Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance has launched a life-saving automated external defibrillator package.
Corfe Castle, Glastonbury Tor and Wellington Monument are to be lit up to mark the week which runs from 9–15 September.
Thanks to funding from Dorset Council and Waitrose, training sessions are being held to run workshops to help people to cook.
The event earlier this year raised funds for a specialised device for University Hospitals Dorset NHS Charity’s Breast unit.
Ian Girling is terrified of heights, but he will face his fears by leaping out of a plane to raise funds for Lewis-Manning Hospice Care.
The 24th Wimborne Duck Race, held to raise funds for Wimborne in Bloom, collected £1,800 on Saturday 24 August.