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Give Back to Community & Volunteer at this Year’s Kite Festival

Diverse Abilities Plus, a local disability charity which supports over 45 families in the West Dorset region including Dorchester, Weymouth, Portland and surrounding areas, is urging local people to give back to the community and volunteer to assist the charity at this year’s Kite Festival in Weymouth, this Sunday (6 May). Kite Festival volunteers will…

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Diverse Abilities Plus Get Walking for Olympic Legacy Initiative

A team of eight from Dorset charity, Diverse Abilities Plus, put on their hiking boots, braved the rain and collectively have walked 201.2km, from Swanage to Hengistbury Head, as part of the Gold Challenge’s 2012 national Olympic legacy initiative. Each member of the team, who work at the only Dorset disability charity that supports children…

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The Great Dorset Bake Sale

Following the success of Diverse Abilities Plus recipe book and continuing this scrumptious food theme they have created an exciting new event ‘The Great Dorset Bake Sale’. This event will be held 7th – 13th May 2012. The aim is for 100 bake sales to be run in aid of Diverse Abilities Plus throughout the…

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Ward Goodman taste Olympic Glory

On 1st April, Ward Goodman were given the opportunity of a lifetime from local disability charity, Diverse Abilities Plus. They were awarded the prize of taking part in a 400m relay and running 100m at London’s Olympic Park track as part of the Gold Challenge’s 2012 Challenge – one of the official London 2012 legacy…

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Hospice nurse takes on sponsored ‘24 hour spin’

A nurse working for Poole’s Lewis-Manning Hospice will don her best cycling gear to ride non stop for 24 hours on a stationary bike to raise vital funds for the charity that cares for people with cancer and other-threatening illnesses. Ros Dwyer has worked for the hospice for 12 years and wanted to do something…

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