A Honiton based charity, The Bastion Baton Trust, which has helped members of the military and their families to get the funerals they deserve, has been given a donation of £12,000.

The donation to the charity known as ‘The Baton’ is thanks to the generosity of families who have funerals at East Devon Crematorium and agree for any metals which remain after cremation to be recycled.

With their express consent, funding is then raised through a national recycling scheme run by the Institute of Cemetery and Crematorium Management.

Alan Rowe MBE, Founder of The Baton, said: “The donation will be of immense and immeasurable use in our aims to provide emergency support for those in desperate situations. Any funds we are given go further as our ethos has been a no wages, minimal expenses policy right from the start ensuring as much as possible of a donation goes to where people would want it to go.”

To read more, visit https://www.eastdevoncrematorium.co.uk/blog/2023/06/01/12000-to-help-military-families-in-need/.