Charity for Change
A staggering £22,600 has been raised for leading cardiac charity Heartbeat at its annual Remedy Oak Charity Golf Day, which returned recently for its 14th year. Held at the prestigious Remedy Oak Golf Club, sponsors Peter Cooper Motor Group (PCMG), offered the chance for the budding golfers to win a BMW Mini with a ‘hole in […]
To coincide with Mental Health Awareness Week, Samaritans have launched its new partnership with Amey Infrastructure Wales Limited (AIW) who operate the infrastructure on the Core Valley Line in the South Wales Valleys. The partnership means staff from AIW will be supported in their suicide prevention activities across Cardiff and the Vale, Gwent, and Cwm Taff Morgannwg, and over 5,000 Samaritans volunteers from across the region – will be able to offer specialist support to rail workers who have to deal with […]
A leading cancer charity has hailed the decision to make an innovative and targeted radiotherapy treatment available on the NHS for patients with neuroendocrine tumours (NETs) in the liver. Selective internal radiation therapy (SIRT) has previously only been available to patients whose liver cancer had developed in the organ directly or spread to it from […]
CategoriesNEWSBIG Give, the UK’s most successful match funding platform, has announced the launch of its Kind²Mind campaign, marking its third consecutive year. This campaign aims to increase crucial support for mental health charities, coinciding with the UK’s Mental Health Awareness Week and running from the 14th to the 28th of May. Mental health challenges affect […]
THE Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued a reprimand to Birmingham Children’s Trust Community Interest Company after the personal information of a child was inappropriately disclosed to another family. The child protection and review department at Birmingham Children’s Trust Community Interest Company, which is owned by Birmingham City Council, was working with two neighbouring families […]
BESTSELLING Author Adele Parks MBE shares her inspirational journey from aspiring writer to literary success on the Paying it Forward Podcast from The Health Lottery. Renowned author from Teesside, Adele Parks MBE takes centre stage in an upcoming episode of The Health Lottery’s Paying it Forward Podcast, hosted by the dynamic Danni Menzies. Set to […]
YWCA Yorkshire is marking 20 years of partnership success in Doncaster. The charity was appointed to Green Gables by Council Leaders in 2004 with a remit to support young women and their children to thrive in South Yorkshire. Green Gables is a purpose-built core building of eight self-contained apartments. The first women and their children […]
AUTHOR of the hit Heartstopper young adult fiction series turned popular TV programme, Alice Oseman, is auctioning off signed doodles and books, and offering up the prize of a one-of-a-kind drawing, to raise money to support children in Gaza. ‘Not Alone: The Alice Oseman fundraiser for Children in Gaza’, is raising money for Save […]
CategoriesNEWSALMOST £2,000 has been invested in Telford Town Park thanks to funding handed to a volunteer group. The Friends of Telford Town Park (FOTTP) has been given £1,820 in grants from councils across the borough over the past year and is busy spending it on plants, seeds and bulbs, paints and materials, refurbishing tools, timber […]
CategoriesNEWSOn Saturday 29th June, to celebrate and support this year’s Care Home Open Week, Redcot, the Haslemere-based residential care home run by charity, Friends of the Elderly, will be opening its doors to host a summer Open Day and BBQ. The Open Day will give visitors, prospective residents, respite guests and their families the opportunity […]