The Care for Kids virtual 10k race took place on Sunday (4 July), with 138 runners taking to the streets of North Devon. Even Batman took time out of his busy schedule to support our charity! The virtual event replaced our annual Barnstaple 10km race, which normally attracts about 400 runners. With Coronavirus putting [...]
Today we are pleased to announce that we've been chosen as the Perrigo Braunton site’s charity of the year for 2021. The Perrigo Company Charitable Foundation has donated £20,000 to enable us complete another project at NDDH children’s ward. We will be using the funds primarily to refurbish cubicle 3 at the Caroline Thorpe [...]
It’s Small Charity Week from 14-19 June 2021. Show your support of our small charity and others like us, by getting involved in I ♥ Small Charities Day (14 June). How to get involved 1. Take a photo of yourself holding up a poster that reads: “I love Care for Kids because (why you love us)”. [...]
Great news! The Norman Family Charitable Trust has awarded us a grant of £1,500. We will use the funds to help with the running costs of our charity. This means we can concentrate our efforts on fundraising for local families. Jacky Massos, Charity Manager, says: “We are very pleased to receive this grant from The [...]
Enter our Easter egg prize draw! Sign up to receive our newsletter and you’ll be entered into a prize draw to win this delicious chocolate egg. You have until they end of Wednesday 7 April to enter. Simply sign up to receive our quarterly newsletter to be in with a chance of winning. We [...]
Barnstaple 10k will be a virtual running event again this year. The date of this year’s 10k is Sunday 4 July. With this being a week after the proposed lifting of lockdown, we are too nervous to go full steam ahead with a physical event. As a small charity there is a lot of [...]
Send an Easter e-card to your nearest and dearest. You’ll be sending them your love and us a donation 😊 You can now order Care for Kids bespoke charity e-cards. Donate the cost of cards and stamps to us and send your friends and family an e-card instead. Head to our dontsendacard.com page today [...]
We are very pleased to have received a grant from the Anderton Foundation. The generous donation of £1,500 will be a great help for our charity during these difficult times. We provide instant financial assistance to families who have a child diagnosed with a life-threatening illness or condition. To date we have helped over 120 [...]
We have received a £1,000 donation from Barratt and David Wilson Homes. Four other children’s charities in Devon and Cornwall have also received the same support. Barratt David Wilson Homes’ Exeter division donates £1,000 every month to local causes across Devon and Cornwall. Nicki Reid, sales director for Barratt David Wilson Homes Exeter, said: “It’s [...]
We are very pleased to announce that our latest project to transform an individual bedroom (cubicle 4) at Caroline Thorpe ward is complete! Following our fundraising campaign and a generous donation of £16,000 from the Morrisons Foundation, we have completely refurbished the room. It’s now a more comfortable place to stay for children [...]
