Categories EnvironmentFundraisingRecent

The view of 2019 from The Rooftop

The most read positive news stories of 2019 revealed.

Read More
Categories FundraisingRecent

Terminal Cancer Survivor Completes European Bike Challenge

A terminal cancer survivor who was the world’s first person to receive a multivisceral organ transplant has completed a 2000-mile Monkey Bike challenge, raising almost £3000 for the Pelican Foundation.

Read More
Categories Campaign of the WeekEducationFundraisingRecent

British university helps fight air pollution in China

Loughborough University has teamed up with a Chinese university to help develop new environmentally friendly cars in China. The university hopes the project will help fight air pollution there.

Read More
Categories FundraisingRecent

Funding boost for older people’s well-being projects

Older people are benefiting from a new grant scheme set up to support ideas that reduce loneliness and improve access to nutritious food.

Read More
Categories FundraisingRecent

Hertfordshire charity helps older people keep warm in winter

Up to 50,000 older people in Hertfordshire spend every day without talking to someone. Small Acts of Kindness are delivering ‘Warm in winter’ bags to help stop older people getting cold in their homes, raise awareness and create opportunities to build new social connections in the local community.

Read More
Categories EducationRecent

Closing the technology and education gap

As advances in artificial intelligence and automation continue, the distance between high-skilled elites and everyone else will only grow. To counter this problem, we should be using new technologies to educate more people at lower cost argue former Prime Minister GORDON BROWN and ANANT AGARWAL.

Read More
Categories FundraisingRecent

Superstar Lyra releases Christmas single to help find brain tumour cure

Six year old from Somerset hopes to raise money for Brain Tumour Research with version of When a Child is Born

Read More
Categories EducationEnvironmentFundraisingRecent

Scottish academic claims solutions already exist to tackle climate change

An environmental scientist from Heriot-Watt University has claimed that solutions to the climate crisis already exist. They just need the proper investment and ambition to make them happen.

Read More
Categories Recent

Living wage champion honoured

LGiU Scotland have recognised the councillors who make the biggest difference to their local areas in the 2019 Councillor Awards.

Read More
Categories FundraisingRecent

Amputee former commando joins Challenge 4 Change as instructor

A former Royal Marines Commando who lost his right leg following an explosion in Afghanistan joins a Challenge 4 Change as a full time instructor

Read More