We were delighted to be invited to Hereford County Hospital this morning to see Emily Osborne hand over £502.28 to the Wye Valley NHS Trust. Emily, who suffers with Dyspraxia (A neurological disorder that impacts an individual's ability to plan and process motor...
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NEWS | Mason’s incredible fundraising efforts reach new level
Mason’s fundraising efforts reach incredible new level. We’ve been keeping track of Mason’s incredible fundraising efforts for well over a year now and his latest mountain climb was his bravest yet. Mason completed the climb of Helvellyn (950m ASL) at the weekend. The...
COMMUNITY | Asda donates toiletries and groceries to St Michael’s Hospice
Asda’s Community Champion June Thurston nominated St Michael's Hospice to receive a donation of toiletries and groceries for patients and staff.June said, 'St Michael's Hospice is close to the hearts of many of the staff and customers. One of our colleagues recently...
NEWS | Leisure Centre and Local Authority come together for Covid community effort
The sports hall at Hereford Leisure Centre is used to seeing groups of people come together to get active, but recently it welcomed a new type of team which has been flexing its muscles and pulling together for an entirely different reason. Hereford Leisure Centre may...
FEATURED | Local agency’s podcast raises £850 for charity
Leominster based agri-food PR and marketing agency, Pinstone, has been busy fundraising during lockdown, contributing a total of £850, which has been shared between Leominster Food Bank and NHS Charities Together. The award-winning agency has been donating £10...
NEWS | Hospice thanks members of the public for donations
St Michael's Hospice have thanked all the kind and generous people that have donated pre-loved items today at their Donation Stations at Halo Leisure Centre in #Hereford and the Home and Living Store in Leominster. Both Stations will be open again from 10am-3pm on Fri...
NEWS | Royal National College for the Blind welcomes new fundraising manager
The Royal National College for the Blind (RNC) Welcomes New Fundraising Manager This month, RNC said ‘hello’ to its new Fundraising Manager, Melanie Denning, who joins from The Courtyard Arts Centre where she was Individual Giving Manager for many years. Melanie is...
CHARITY | Nick’s 100 Challenge for St Michael’s Hospice
Diagnosed with a rare and incurable cancer in 2006, Nick Nenadich needed four major operations to remove tumours, part of his diaphragm and a lobe of one lung. He also endured sessions of chemotherapy and latterly immunotherapy. Throughout this time, Nick has remained...
NEWS | NFU Mutual Agents and their staff support St Michael’s Hospice
NFU Mutual Agents and their staff at the local Ross on Wye, Wormbridge, Hereford and Leominster agencies are delighted to have nominated local charity, St Michaels Hospice, to receive a donation of more than £11,074 from a national £1m ‘Agency Giving Fund’ launched by...
CHARITY | Maddie smashes fundraising target
Maddie is just 9 years old and has been growing her hair for 3 years. She has been determined to donate her hair to charity The Little Princess Trust. Maddie smashed her £150 fundraising target within hours. Within a week she has hit £1000! Her family are all totally...
NEWS | Local company makes masks for NHS Charities Together
Herefordshire based Tailor, Curtis Fulcher from PudlestonMakes, has raised over £600 for NHS Charities Together selling facemasks online to customers worldwide. The facemasks were a drafted, adapted style to give maximum comfort to the face from feedback from...
NEWS | Blackfriars Tattoo raise £1120 for the Wye Valley NHS Trust with ‘Stay Home’ t-shirts
When COVID-19 struck the UK, the team at Blackfriars Tattoo in Hereford put their heads together to find a way in which they could make a contribution to the frontline. Being artists the sensible thing to do was to create art, WEARABLE art, and co-owner Jon Harper put...
NEWS | Hereford City Rotary Club hand out funds to local charities
COUNTY charities have been expressing their gratitude to the City of Hereford Rotary Club after receiving hand-outs from the club’s Covid-19 Mutual Aid Fund. The fund was set up in conjunction with Herefordshire Voluntary Organisations Support Service (hvoss) to...
NEWS | Fundraising page set up in memory of teenager from Hereford
Back in September last year, the Joyce family tragically lost their fit and healthy 15-year-old son, Kieran to Sudden Cardiac Death. A post on his memorial page, Cardiac Risk in the Young- Kieran Joyce Memorial, says: "Losing Kieran has turned our lives upside down...
CHARITY | Bobby records personal best in ‘Couch to 5km’ challenge
Bobby records personal best in ‘Couch to 5km’ challenge! Six year old Bobby from Leominster has been busy raising money for Winston's Wish - giving hope to grieving children by running a massive 5km in one go. Today he set a personal best by running the 5km in just 33...
NEWS | Charlie raises £928 for the NHS
Wye Valley NHS Trust Umbrella Charity have shared this brilliant letter that they received from a young lad called Charlie. ???? Dear NHS I wanted to do this run because it started off by maybe doing a mile round the garden and then I had an idea to raise money for...
SPORT | Counties runners race virtually for the Hospice
Local running club Hereford Couriers organised a virtual running race on the week that hundreds of runners should have been taking part in the RUN Hereford event in aid of St Michael’s Hospice. The Couriers organised Virtually RUNNING Hereford where runners across the...
CHARITY | Hereford Couriers Runners complete virtual runs
Shout out to the 16 runners from Hereford Couriers Running Club who completed virtual runs in aid of St Michael's Hospice - Hereford yesterday! Helen, Susie, Alison, Alfie, Paul, Eva, Fred, Sian, Tony, Ashley, Mark, Sue, Sarah, Steve, Hayley & Ben have now have...
FUNDRAISING | Gamer completes 24 hour gaming marathon for charity
FUNDRAISING | A shout out to Dean Price this morning, who has just completed a 24 hour gaming marathon to raise money for NHS charities. He's raised a fantastic £700 so far, having played POV games Call of Duty, Fortnite, Valorant and others for a full 24 hour period....
CHARITY | Megan to skydive to raise money for St Michael’s Hospice
Megan's Dad was diagnosed with terminal cancer in early 2018, and he would often stay with St Michael's Hospice - Hereford receiving pain management for 3-4 weeks at a time. His last admission came at the end of the same year, on his wedding day, and just 5 days later...