Charity

Bishop's Stortford's elderly residents proved they have an appetite for a new initiative to banish loneliness.

Group therapy workshops for bereaved children and young people, whose loved ones were cared for at St Clare Hospice, are being launched this February.

A gym in Bishop's Stortford will host a charity day on Autism Sunday.

A former Bishop's Stortford High School student is getting ready for her first London Marathon to raise thousands of pounds for the mental health charity which supported her.

Members of Bishop's Stortford's Amici Cantate choir handed over a £2,540.26 donation to the town's Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal.

A group of charity supporters in Bishop's Stortford raised £1,205 for the intensive care unit (ICU) at Harlow's Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH) with a Cliff Richard tribute night.

Decades of horticultural history in Bishop's Stortford have ended - with a blooming marvellous £1,345 donation to the Essex and Herts Air Ambulance.

Staff at Bishop's Stortford's Premier Travel collected 700 gifts for children in care as part of their annual appeal. Customers and local businesses helped the South Street branch make its three-year-old Santa's Sack campaign the most successful to date.

Bishops Stortford Town Council wants to extend the season of giving by encouraging community groups to apply for grants.

Mayor of Bishop's Stortford Cllr Colin Woodward found a host of festive fans when he organised a Christmas jumper event for the town's Grove Cottage.

A team from Waitrose helped to make the Bishop's Stortford Age Concern Christmas lunch extra-special for dozens of elderly guests and volunteers.

The Woodwind of Stortford band visited patients at St Clare Hospice's in-patient unit to play festive music and Christmas carols.

Bishop's Stortford Running Club member Clare Gallagher has completed a marathon year of fundraising for St Clare Hospice and is looking forward clocking up more miles for the charity in 2018.

Reporter Cat Barkley joins Bishop's Stortford and Stansted Round Table members on their Santa's Sleigh tour

Around 300 people celebrated the lives of friends and loved ones at a Christmas carol and remembrance service held at St Clare Hospice on Saturday (December 16).

The owner of a fitness studio in Bishop's Stortford is again striving to bring some Christmas joy to people affected by homelessness.

A squad of Santas and a herd of reindeer descended on Grange Paddocks in Bishop's Stortford on Saturday to take part in a fun run for Grove Cottage.

A concert to raise funds for the Night Shelter, put on by three members of the Bishop's Stortford Musical Theatre Company, raised more than £600.

Bring some festive joy to poorly children in hospital this Christmas by dropping off gifts for them in the Independent's office at 12 North Street, Bishop's Stortford.

The Bishop's Stortford and Stansted Round Table will be bringing Christmas joy to the area this December, with the return of Santa's Sleigh.