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Ten-year-old Mia Richardson has made it to John O’Groats on her cross trainer – a 1347-kilometre ‘magic’ journey from Land’s End that has so far raised more than £18,500 for Cornwall Care’s Blackwood House in Camborne. Mia ran the final 10k in front of a socially...

Brewin Dolphin staff in Devon and Cornwall love a challenge. Having chosen Farms for City Children as their annual charity, they weren’t going to let a pandemic stop them from fundraising. The question was, what to do and how to do it? The answer came in the shape of...

A team of volunteers worked all day to spruce up the gardens of the Trevern care home in Falmouth. The home, which looks after 40 people with dementia and nursing needs, is the sixth of Cornwall Care’s 16 homes to have its outdoor space transformed. Cornwall Care is...

Ten-year-old Mason Nelmes and his eight-year-old sister, Phoebe, have walked 154 miles during their daily exercise time over the last month to help fund the purchase of a magic table at Penberthy, a Cornwall Care home in Newquay. On Saturday, Phoebe’s eighth birthday,...

Sue Aldridge is a kind, self-deprecating lady who has made a career out of helping others. As the manager of Penberthy, a residential home run by Cornwall Care in Newquay, she has been working night and day with her equally devoted team to keep COVID-19 at bay. There...

Volunteers at a Redruth-based manufacturing company have been helping make scrubs for health workers in Cornwall. DM Orthotics (DMO) has remained operational throughout the current coronavirus pandemic. The business, which has just celebrated its fifteenth birthday...

Dan Lowe is missing his twice weekly swimming sessions in the pool at Bodmin Leisure Centre. Whilst no longer able to swim, however, he still walks there regularly from home with his mum and new canine companion, Lenny. Dan has been blind since birth and Lenny is his...

Seven-year-old Phoebe Nelmes and her ten-year-old brother Mason love visiting Penberthy in Newquay. Their mum Patricia is a senior carer who has worked full-time at the home for the last sixteen years. The children even got to spend Christmas Day 2019 there - handing...

10-year-old Mia Richardson embarked on a marathon effort to raise money for the care home her mum, Bernie, works in on 2 April. Her goal was to run the distance from Land’s End to John O’Groats – 1347 kilometres – on the family cross-trainer.  Since then, Mia,...

Coronavirus may have stopped Camborne’s annual and very popular Trevithick Day festivities taking place in the town’s main street this Saturday, but people are still being encouraged to mark the occasion with memories, videos and music. Since 1984, residents have been...

Easter is going to be different for many of us this year but, thanks to the generosity of local food outlets, Easter eggs will still be on the menu for hard-pressed Cornwall Care staff. Waitrose was the first supermarket to arrange a delivery of fifty eggs to the...

People in Cornwall may be having to stay at home but that is no excuse not to keep fit. Thanks to a free app from leisure social enterprise provider GLL, which runs all Cornwall leisure centres under the Better brand, everyone can now take part in freevirtual fitness...

When Charlotte Pearce lost her much-loved grandmother in August last year, she knew how alone her 87-year-old grandad would feel. Too far away from him to visit on a regular basis, she decided to give him an iPhone so they could stay in touch via video calls. The...

Year 7 students at Redruth School have sent what they’ve entitled ‘cheer boxes’ to the residents of Cornwall Care’s Redruth care home. Two boxes were made, containing activities such as word searches, homemade bingo games and books donated from the school’s library,...

Caroline Lake, head of diversity and inclusion at Brewin Dolphin, has been presented with the Best Initiatives in Diversity award at the City of London Wealth Management Awards (COLWMA), which took place at London’s Guildhall. Caroline has been based in Brewin...