Charity

Ex-Royal Marines captain, who plans to trek 7,455 miles from Cairo to Cape Town, invites people to join him on 24-hour walk along Stort on February 29

Every quarter, customers will vote with blue tokens in store to see which short-listed causes will receive grants of £2,000, £1,000 and £500.

Residents raised £1,600 for Grove Cottage and a team from The Tree Management Company gave up their time and machinery for free.

All proceeds from the trio's concert at Holy Trinity Church in Bishop's Stortford on Sunday will go to the shelter.

Lou Wickens at Penny and Lou said of the 'suspended orders' scheme: "A donation as little as £2 would provide a hot drink for someone."

Former Leventhorpe student Sam Faulkner, 24, is taking on the challenge of cycling from John o' Groats to Land's End in aid of Isabel Hospice.

Fresh from his chat with Good Morning Britain hosts Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid, Cyril Banks, 95, admits he's becoming a bit of a local celebrity.

The series of monthly tea parties in the Markwell Pavilion is a partnership between charity Re-engage and the Castle Park project.

It was a bumper year for Stansted's fire crews as they raised more than £8,000 for charity from street collection and station open day.

Trustees of the coppiced woodland on the outskirts of Bishop's Stortford urge people to shun the gym and join them in the fresh air instead.

As the UK's largest charity retailer, each year the BHF's 740 shops help raise £30m for life-saving research.

The event at Rhodes Arts Complex is being held in association with North Street preloved clothes shop Friends Dress Agency.

In exchange for a suggested minimum £5 donation, trees can be dropped off on Sunday January 5 between 10am and 4pm at Stortford's Link Road car park.

More than 200 residents of the Bishop's Stortford estate met at the square in Mercers Avenue and sang carols for nearly two hours.

Care company Home Instead set up grotto in Jackson Square on the two Saturdays before Christmas as part of its 'Be A Santa To A Senior' campaign.

The party in Stortford for the Mencap centre's families was organised by volunteer Debra Barton, an employee of funeral firm Daniel Robinson and Sons.

Around 84 trainees took part alongside 20 volunteers from Manchester Airports Group staff and the airport's environmental team.

Players at Bishop's Stortford Rugby Club have been helping change the face of men's health by taking part in the Movember campaign

More than 100 people gathered at the Methodist Church on Christmas Day for a meal and entertainment organised by the town’s Churches Together group.

Six thrillseekers with a head for heights took to the skies to raise £3,300 for local Mencap group Grove Cottage