The Ache Journey Belief – named after former Exmouth resident Charles Ache – offers grants for folks aged between 10 and 22, and has this 12 months supported journeys to Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Nepal, Vietnam and Cambodia. The younger folks have finished volunteer work and internships with group organisations, and loved actions resembling trekking, white-water rafing and bungee leaping.  

Till September 2021 the charity was capable of give grants solely to boys aged 10 to 21, in step with the unique deeds of the belief arrange in 1978. But it surely now awards grants to any younger folks aged 10 to 22 who dwell in East Devon or inside eight miles of Exmouth City Corridor, excluding the world to the west of the Exe estuary. 

It has additionally merged with The Journey Belief for Women, one other native charity with the identical goals that till just lately gave grants to women aged between 10 and 22.  

Howard Mallett, Chair of Trustees, The Ache Belief, mentioned: “We’re happy to welcome the trustees from The Women Journey Belief into The Ache Journey Belief and proceed the nice work of each trusts in financially supporting younger folks from the Exmouth and East Devon space collectively. It is nice to see that inside six months of the Belief with the ability to help all younger those who 30 per cent of grants awarded have been to women or younger ladies.” 

Sue Fowler, Chair of Trustees, The Women Journey Belief, mentioned “We had been hoping to mix with The Ache Belief for a few years, so we’re delighted it has now occurred. I’m additionally reassured to see that each Trusts function on very related strains and am trying ahead to the way forward for The Ache Journey Belief.” 

The grants supplied by the Belief are funded by the funding of the legacy of Charles Ache (1901 – 1971). He was born in Exmouth and, after graduating from Cambridge College, went to work logging with elephants in Burma. He went on to turn out to be a prospector in Mandalay, trying to find mineral deposits and dealing in treasured stones.