South East Essex PCT is just starting a project group looking at the treatment of hernias in the community and they are looking for some volunteers to work with them on this. You would need to have had a hernia yourself or have a close relative or friend who has had one, so that you [...]
Gareth Gault, the Social Enterprise Director of St. Lukes Healthy Living Centre C.I.C in Southend, is delighted to announce that funding has been received from the Social Enterprise Investment Fund. This will facilitate their plans, in conjunction with South East Essex NHS, to build a Health Living Centre, a one stop health and wellbeing community hub offering a range [...]
Edward Fenner of Secure Site UK has just sent through the following tips which many of you might find useful:
Also a recent info email we received has resulted in a 10% increase in mpg on our fleet. Top tips to achieve same are:
Remove all unnecessary weight from vehicles, eg. boxes of brochures and non essential items
Avoid [...]
Just a little update for everyone out there who is interested in the latest exploits of our “Poly tunnel and the chooks (and ducks)”.
The great weather at the weekend saw the main framework go up with some help from Ian (our nephew). Quite honestly the poly tunnel is much bigger that we had at first thought. It is [...]
In case anyone missed this from Yahoo news
Some popular children’s bath products have been found to contain cancer-causing chemicals, according to research carried out in the United States.
‘Kids’ Shampoo Contains Dangerous Chemicals’
An independent laboratory tested a range of top-selling brands and found many of them contained formaldehyde, which is used to embalm corpses.
Out of [...]
The European Union is considering imposing a ban on seal products, but in the meantime this seasons mass, inhumane slaughter of baby seals in Canada has began. The quota has also been considerably increased from previous years.
The Canadian fishing industry and the Canadian government are fighting furiously to oppose the ban. If you would like to find [...]
In most developed countries we really need a grass roots culture change to address issues such as obesity, alcohol abuse, climate change and other problems that are seemingly spiralling out of control. How inspiring is it therefore that the popular, newly installed First Lady of the US, Michelle Obama, is digging up part of the lawn at [...]
Many of the budget clothing chain stores sell garments made of made-made materials that are not easily recycled. Today’s fever for fashion and purchase of ‘throwaway clothing’ is now dramatically adding to our landfill problems. In only five years the volumn of textile waste has increased from 7% to 30%.
What can be done to change this? Firstly, a [...]
Oh dear, I am always on the lookout to reduce and minimise the cleaning products that I use in the bathroom, so an anti-bacterial toilet seat, I thought was a good idea, I brought it and installed it yesterday…then today I received this in an email………….too late for me, but I’ll let all the Healthy [...]
On the morning of 11 March, litter pickers were kept busy for three hours filling wheelbarrows and black sacks with rubbish. Greengrid Taskforce volunteers were joined by local residents, children and teachers from Fairways Primary School and local councillor, Brian Smith and his wife. The target area was the stretch between Bonchurch Park and Our [...]