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90-year-old Brit's garden trek raises €5,500 for charity

A 90-year-old Briton has raised nearly €5,500 for charity funds for his local Anglican church in France by completing a sponsored walk around his house and garden.

Europe’s first elephant sanctuary is ready to host animals

Europe’s first “retirement home” for zoo and circus elephants is now ready – and waiting to welcome its first residents.

Help: refugee charity in urgent need of donations

After-effects of the Covid-19 lockdown have left English-based charity in northern France, Care4Calais, in urgent need of donations and volunteers.

Cancer charity remains open for support

Phone lines open to offer listening ear

Disability sites swap to Covid-19 support

Readers rush to help during Covid confinement

Connexion readers have been getting involved in or launching initiatives to make life better for others during the confinement period, as Jane Hanks discovers

Franco-British charity helps those in hardship

Franco-British literary festival’s lockdown events

A weekly literary treat open to all during the confinement period has been set up by the organisers of an acclaimed annual Franco-British literary festival.

Delivery service looking for volunteers

A reader in the Gers has won praise from local French media for starting a free delivery service for people who cannot get out to the shops during the confinement period and is looking for volunteers to widen the area the service can help in.

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