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Care home residents reveal secret to cooking Christmas dinner like your gran

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Everyone loves their grandparent’s cooking; their secret recipes, star dishes, and, of course, roast dinners are favourites with all the family.  From “have a tipple when you are making it” to “never be in charge of making it”, Lottie (a later living marketplace) has worked with care home residents across the UK, who have come […]

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Categories Health & Social Care

New programmes launched to help break cycles of domestic abuse

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TLC: Talk, Listen, Change, the Manchester based relationships charity with more than 40 years’ experience in helping people build safe, happy and healthy relationships announces that it is expanding beyond the North West and will be offering services at the Chrysalis Centre based in Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire. The Chrysalis Centre is a ground-breaking programme of […]

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Categories EducationRecent

Sight loss charity removes barriers for accessing online support

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A new website for a sight loss charity in northern England hopes to break down barriers for people with visual impairment and those who support them.

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Categories CommunityFundraisingRecent

World record free diver shares insights with Brighton swim enthusiasts

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Sea Lanes Brighton hosted a special event with World Record Free Diver Alessia Zecchini last week.

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Categories EducationRecent

North Kent College goes to Cape Town for ‘Building Blitz’

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A North Kent College tutor and two former students have travelled to Cape Town to help build twenty classrooms, two playgrounds, four covered shelters and a kitchen, all in the space of seven days. Phil Miles, who is a lecturer in brickwork and multitrades at the College, was joined by two former bricklaying students Freddie […]

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Categories CommunityEnvironment

Four hundred trees will be planted across Dumfries and Galloway to mark the impact of the COVID pandemic

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The planting of a Dispersed Memorial Forest is part of ‘Remembering Together Dumfries and Galloway’ which is this region’s contribution to the Scotland-wide memorial project funded by the Scottish Government.  The tree planting plans for the memorial have been developed for Remembering Together Dumfries and Galloway and are part of the Scotland-wide development of memorials […]

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Categories CommunityRecentSociety

UK workers want to play a role in the aftermath of national crises

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New research out last week revealed that employees want their workplace to enable them to contribute their time to supporting during national crises. The Opinium survey found that three quarters (76%) of employees want the company they work for to play an active role during UK disasters such as major floods, terror attacks or another […]

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Categories Health & Social Care

Blind and Sight Impaired have their say

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4Sight Vision Support (4SVS) is delighted to announce its participation in a major new Sussex-wide NHS initiative. The charity, in partnership with East Sussex Vision Support, has received funding from an NHS Sussex Health Inequalities grant to talk to people across Sussex to identify the issues faced by people living with sight loss and feedback […]

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Categories EnvironmentRecent

New project seeks to save animals from plastic pollution

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Whilst extensive research has previously focused on the impact of plastic pollution in marine environments, its repercussions on land animals remain an underexplored frontier. A new study will take a major step towards unravelling the critical issue of plastic pollution and its far-reaching consequences, especially for animals like livestock and working animals such as donkeys, […]

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Categories Ethical ShoppingFundraisingRecent

Christmas comes early as charity donation platform announces £50million milestone

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easyfundraising, the UK’s biggest charity shopping site, has reached the huge milestone of £50million in donations raised for charities and good causes.

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