Musical duo the Targets, featuring Spon End resident Paul Copeland are lending their support to a couple of charity fundraising events. On Saturday 1 August, they appear at the Coventry Cross pub in aid of Diabetes UK, where they will be joined by other acts and a DJ from Hillz FM. There will also be …
Category: Charity
Vote: Would you pay a couple of quid to save Coventry’s Godiva Festival?
Coventry Telegraph is holding a poll about future funding for the Godiva Festival. Some might find the results so far a little surprising… With the council having to make deep cuts, we might have to fork out a little something to keep the city’s best weekend going Source: Vote: Would you pay a couple of …
Snowdrop Day success
The Snowdrop Day held by Zilpha Reed and her family in Belvedere Road on 16 February was a great success. The garden looked wonderful in beautiful sunshine and over 100 people visited. With admission fees and sale of plants, preserves and cake a total of £492.40 was raised for Coventry Myton Hospice.
Raise charity funds through the Coventry Walkathon
In anticipation of better weather this spring, Coventry Leofric Lions Club would like you to direct your thoughts to raising funds for your chosen charity or good cause. Looking for ideas? Why not join like minded fundraisers on their annual ramble around the War Memorial Park on Sunday 11 May. As always, the funds that …
Education in Africa
Freya Kendall has written this account of her work placement in Tanzania working with Raleigh International. What do you remember from your primary school years? Practising the shape of ‘a’s over and over in your exercise book? Being read exciting stories out of colourful books by the teacher? Maybe chanting your times tables over and …
Night shelter gets under way locally
Coventry Winter Night Shelter (CWNS), a city-wide initiative that has quickly caught the public imagination, is up and running. And St. Mary Magdalen in Chapelfields, “the church with the blue roof”, is pitching in to help. It was late October when a night-time tour of the city centre with the rough sleepers team showed councillors …