Get ready for a wonderful festive evening at Barnstaple Town Council's Christmas Fayre. This annual event takes place in Barnstaple Pannier Market on Thursday 2 December 2021 from 6.30-8.30pm. There will be food, drink, music, festive shopping opportunities from lovely local makers and of course Santa will be there too! If you're in town for [...]
Fancy pitting your wits against some fellow quiz-heads? Join the Simpkins Edwards Really Big Quiz on Wednesday 17 November at 7.15pm at the Barnstaple Hotel. All proceeds from the event will go to Care for Kids North Devon, as the Mayor of Barnstaple’s chosen charity this year. Doors open at 6.45pm for a delicious buffet, [...]
SORRY EVENT CANCELLED Get ready for our next spook-tacular running event; enter if you dare! Join us this Halloween for a fun 5K run around Rock Park in Barnstaple. There will be a prize for the fastest male, fastest female and fastest junior. Wear fancy dress and you'll also have the chance to win [...]
We held our annual general meeting online again this year. In the meeting on 20 October 2021, we discussed what we’ve achieved over the last year, how much we have raised and what our principle aims are next year. If you missed the meeting and would like to find out more, you can download [...]
Did you know that whenever you buy anything online – from your weekly shop to your annual holiday – you could be raising free donations for Care for Kids North Devon with easyfundraising? There are over 4,000 shops and sites on board ready to make a donation – including eBay, Argos, John Lewis, ASOS, Booking.com [...]
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 [...]
