Month: May 2024

Categories EnvironmentRecent

1000 planet positive businesses pitch for £100 million

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Blue Earth Summit launches biggest pitch for planet positive businesses. The founders of Blue Earth Summit have launched an exciting new competition to accelerate innovation in climate health.  1000 planet positive startups and scaleups are invited to pitch to hundreds of investors with access to £100 million in funds. As Europe’s biggest pitch and scale […]

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Categories Education

Carpentry Students Create Bug Hotel for RHS Cancer-Awareness Garden

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For the second consecutive year, students at Leeds College of Building are using their skills to help create a poignant RHS show garden. The Level 1 Diploma Carpentry & Joinery students have crafted two five-foot triangular wooden bug hotels. The structures will feature at the main entrance of a garden going on display at RHS Tatton Flower […]

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Categories Real VoicesRecent

English teacher and former drug addict team up to share powerful story of addiction, recovery, and human Connection

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For decades, Rory Londer battled crack addiction and homelessness. When he shared his story as a guest speaker in Sweta Patel’s high school class, she witnessed how moved her students were. Their struggles with homelessness, addiction, and toxic relationships mirrored Rory’s own past. His transformation ignited hope within them: If he could turn his life […]

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Categories Education

Elaine Wyllie, Founder of The Daily Mile, wins Lifetime Achievement Award at The Daily Record Pride of Scotland Awards 2024

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Elaine Wyllie MBE, the founder of The Daily Mile, supported by INEOS, has received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Daily Record Pride of Scotland Awards in Glasgow for transforming millions of lives all over the world. The award recognises Elaine’s outstanding contributions to the health and wellbeing of children in the UK as part […]

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Categories Health & Social CareRecent

‘Sad-looking’ garden in Bedfordshire transformed into sensory haven

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A new sensory garden at the Herald Resource Centre in Shefford, Bedfordshire, has been opened by HM Lord-Lieutenant of Bedfordshire, Susan Lousada, and the Mayor of Shefford, Ken Pollard. The garden belonging to learning disability charity Hft was bare and uninspiring so staff raised money to transform the space. Hft supports 32 learning disabled adults […]

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Tony Christie launches music for dementia campaign

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A new ‘Give It A Go’ campaign from Music for Dementia has been launched by singing legend Tony Christie who announced in January 2023 he was living with dementia. It is estimated there are 2.4 million people in the UK acting as unpaid care givers to people living with dementia. While there can be moments […]

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Categories CultureRecent

Belfast Book Festival returns for 14th Edition

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Booking is open for the 14th edition of the Belfast Book Festival, which will take place from June 6th to 13th, 2024. The festival will be held in the iconic Victorian Crescent Arts Centre building on University Road and promises an array of events and activities tailored for both adults and children. It will celebrate […]

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Categories FundraisingRecent

Fundraiser offers a chance to see Angmering Park Estate

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Join 4Sight Vision Support for a fantastic day out in the Sussex countryside and raise funds to help the charity’s work providing support to West Sussex residents who are blind or partially sighted. The annual sponsored walk will be held on the beautiful Angmering Park Estate, which is not usually open to the public, on […]

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Categories EducationRecent

Young environmentalists wanted for 2024 Darwin Scholarship

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A UK scholarship designed to help young people learn a range of environmental skills and explore future career opportunities in the natural world is open for applications. The Field Studies Council is looking for 75 young people aged 16 to 25 to take part in its 2024 Young Darwin Scholarship programme and those interested have […]

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Hospice chosen as High Sheriff’s charity of the year

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The High Sheriff of South Glamorgan, Janey Howell, has chosen City Hospice as her charity of the year. Janey, who is originally from Antigua, is the High Sheriff of South Glamorgan for 2024 to 2025. The High Sheriff is the monarch’s judicial representative in the county and is the oldest secular office in the United […]

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