For anyone looking to improve their health, wellbeing and fitness in the New Year, Essex County Council are offering a fantastic range of health, wellbeing and fitness courses that are reduced by 50%. Better still, a new programme will soon be available offering FREE courses.
Do have a look at the Essex County Council adult learning web site and [...]
I attended a Social Enterprise event recently and a group of young people were given an award for outlining, in a very short space of time, a very good social enterprise model that would help disabled children attend mainstream school. Let’s hope they can progress that idea!
I subsequently had an e-mail from Alex Penn, one [...]
Britain’s farmers are playing a vital role in the resurgence of many threatened species of wildlife. Figures released by the wildlife habitat scheme, WildCare, show that declining species such as brown hares, yellowhammers and even the humble house sparrow are making a dramatic comeback on participating farms.
The figures, which come only two years after the [...]
The Irish food safety authorities have ordered a blanket ban on the sale of all Irish-produced pork products, a measure supported by Britain’s Food Standards Agency. Pork, ham, bacon, sausages and other processed foods from Ireland are at the centre of a major food safety recall linked to cancer-causing dioxin contamination at up to 200 [...]
Sunday was still a crisp, cold day but with clear blue skies refusing to admit it is winter!
Mike and I had stayed with family in Rainham on Saturday night and decided to make the most of the opportunity and the glorious sunshine on Sunday morning by visiting Ingrebourne Hill, a Forestry Commission site. Work is still in progress, [...]
It was a really cold day, but the sun was shining and spirits were high as I joined the Climate Change March in London this Saturday.
We marched peacefully from Grosvenor Square to Parliament Square, joining many of the Protest Bike riders who began their journeys at 10:30 am at Lincoln’s Inn Field.
At Parliament Square, the [...]
Well yes, therapists and others that practice meditation have known that for years, but now it is official! It has, of course, been given a special name.
A study, funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC) was published today in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.
The study used a treatment known as mindfulness-based cognitive therapy [...]
Southend University Hospital is proud to become the first NHS organisation to sign up to Face Equality – a campaign to overcome discrimination against people with facial disfigurement. The pledge comes on the eve of International Day of Persons with Disabilities on Wednesday, December 3rd. A survey earlier this year showed that 90 per cent [...]
It is National Tree Week and up and down the country there are thousands of projects to plant more trees. In Southend-on-Sea, a special conservation garden being developed by the Parks Watch group in Southchurch Park East is set for a further green boost this week.
On Thursday 4th December from 9.30am the group will be [...]
The Daily Mail is today launching a new campaign ‘Action on Alzheimer’s’ as a damming report discovers severe cut backs in the NHS services being offered to patients. In some areas of the country, it seems many trusts do not provide any specific dementia care at all. More and more families are being affected by this terrible [...]