Join more than 60 Exeter businesses, schools and organisations who are taking part in Hospiscare’s big fundraising event, Bring a £1 Day, on Friday October 9.

They are all keen to support the local charity which last year cared for 632 terminally ill Exeter patients and their families, with 473 people being visited in their own homes by Hospiscare nurses and 164 local people were admitted to the hospice.

Hospiscare is calling on local people to collect their £1 coins and bring them to Princesshay to put them in a giant pink collection hat.

You can have a photo taken from 10.30am to 6pm. Hospiscare staff and Radio Exe will be there. Or you can text QUID15£1 to 70070.

It costs £6.1m a year to provide Hospiscare services, with £1.25m funded by the NHS and the rest by fundraising events, community and business support, Hospiscare retail services, grants and gifts in Wills.

Bring a £1 Day takes place during Hospiscare Week Oct 5-11 when the city charity joins in a national celebration of the amazing work carried out by hospices.

For a poster and a collecting box contact: s.healey@hospiscare.co.uk or fundraising@hospiscare.co.uk or to donate text QUID15 £1 to 70070. Call Susie Healey on 01392 688094.