Flower power grows to dizzy heights for Lewis Manning Hospice
At 225 centimetres, Louise Sutton’s sunflower was the winning bloom as part of Lewis Manning Hospice Care’s Grow Some Sunshine Campaign.
At 225 centimetres, Louise Sutton’s sunflower was the winning bloom as part of Lewis Manning Hospice Care’s Grow Some Sunshine Campaign.
Over £3,000 was raised at the weekend for the Minster Makes Music Appeal, Minster Funds and for the participating charities.
Enjoyed by over 100 guests, a sell-out Elizabethan evening picnic at Hale Park in Hampshire raised over £1,500 for church funds.
Lewis-Manning Hospice Care will be celebrating and remembering lives with a community event at Poole Park – ‘Candles on the Lake’ in October.
Two local charities focusing on creativity as a means of supporting health and wellbeing have joined forces.
Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance’s 10th annual Coast to Coast Cycle Challenge took place on Sunday 5 September.
Martin Clunes, who is a patron of Julia’s House, will sell sunflowers from his Beaminster fields with profits going to the children’s hospice.
BBC1’s Antiques Road Trip visited the vintage charity attraction earlier this year and the episode will be screened on 15 September.
Dorset Community Foundation will fund grants of up to £1,000 to help students facing financial hardship.
Warm Homes Week runs from 27-30 September and The Bus Stop Club has hints to help people to stay warm this winter.