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 […]

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 […]

THE British Heart Foundation surveyed 2,000 adults and found that 62 per cent have thrown away homeware in good enough condition to donate to charity. As part of our Reuse Revolution campaign, the British Heart Foundation is encouraging ‘slow-ware’ – buying pre-loved homeware before buying new and donating what you no longer use. The rise […]