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A charity leader will retire this year after more than three decades in the public and charity sectors, it was announced today. Elaine Butterfield, the executive director of the Women’s Resource Centre, is to step down in the summer. She said: “I am ...

Bermuda’s most vulnerable were shown some love after an insurance group teamed up with voluntary services to distribute care packages on St Valentine’s Day. The MoonGate Group handed out 150 “we care packages” stocked with food, hygiene products and ...

Needy families were able to collect food hampers today with 700 given away at the Belco head office in Pembroke. Belco and Ascendant Group staff members teamed up to give back to the community and help families who are facing economic hardship a...

A longstanding thrift shop has grown into a popular lifeline for children’s charity the Committee of 25. Among the group’s goals for this year is boosting the turnover of stock at its Bargain Box store on Serpentine Road in Pembroke. Jackie MacLellan...

Digital nomads have helped boost income at a charity shop set up to raise funds for families in need. Sheelagh Cooper, the chairwoman of Habitat for Humanity of Bermuda, said that the organisation was “thrilled” by the support for its ReStore on Hami...

The head of an anti-substance abuse charity has been awarded cash from a charitable foundation to help develop his leadership and support skills. Leslie Grant, the executive director of Focus Counselling Services, was awarded $8,525 by the Duperreaul...

Ocean pollution has reached “crisis proportions”, the former head of an environmental charity has warned. Anne Hyde, who stepped down as executive director of Keep Bermuda Beautiful last week, said Bermuda had to balance on-island environmental probl...

Some 70 applications have been received for the 34 spots available in the fourth cohort of Ignite Bermuda, the island’s privately-funded entrepreneurial accelerator. The deadline to apply for inclusion in the cohort is today at midnight. Applications...

A pressure group which fought to end marriage equality in Bermuda is still “absolutely” against same-sex weddings but no longer raises funds, its chairman said. Melvyn Bassett of Preserve Marriage and Family said the organisation – no longer a regist...

Clarien Bank raised $11,500 for Meals on Wheels through its holiday giveback campaign, it was announced today. Clarien ran its annual effort to ask clients, employees and the public to make donations from November 26 to December 31 last year. Michae...

A charity will this month launch a fundraising drive to help impoverished children in Africa get an education. The Bermuda Overseas Mission has organised a month-long virtual tag February designed to support families in the Mulanje district of Malawi...

Holly Mazar-Fox moved to the island three years ago and wanted to be part of the community. As an art consultant she decided the best way to start was to get to know Bermuda’s artists – her eye was drawn to Jon Legere’s abstract, collage-style pieces...