Truckers hand out charity cash

dave.tanner@archant.co.uk
06 November 2009

SOUTH West Truckers handed out charity cheques totalling more than £4,600 at their Country and Western evening at the Elizabethan Club in Westward Ho!

There was £1,599.65p for the Highfield House child development centre in Barnstaple - the remainder of money raised for the Truckers' annual children's convoy, including £1,520 raised and donated by Table Table at Barum Gate.

The head injury charity Headway received £900 raised through a sponsored walk.

The chemotherapy unit at the North Devon District Hospital received £1,000 from the proceeds of a ferret racing evening and £1,109 raised at a cream tea at the home of Di and Harold Crocombe.