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Calling all senior citizens – your community needs you!
Southend-on-Sea Older People’s Assembly is electing new trustees at its Annual General Meeting on March 3 and wants more of the borough’s residents to get involved in its work.  There are 11 million pensioners in Britain but new recruits are needed at local level to help change [...]

Southend Together Partnership is teaming up with Britain’s biggest supermarket chains to support ‘The Big Swap’ as part of Fairtrade Fortnight.
Fairtrade is about establishing better prices, decent working conditions, local sustainability and fair terms of trade for farmers and workers in the developing world. Offering a fair price for goods enables them to improve their [...]

There is a history of epilepsy in Simon Papendick’s family, but the sufferers all try to live as normal a life as possible.  Simon is just about to embark on a new challenge and explains:
“The reason behind doing this sailing challenge is to highlight that having epilepsy does not stop you from living a full and active life [...]

The good news is that product placement of junk food will not be allowed in UK-made television programmes. But, as Christine Haigh and Jackie Schneider, Children’s Food Campaign Co-Ordinators say:
“We’re outraged that Kellogg’s, a partner in the government’s Change4life health campaign, has adverts suggesting to children “ever thought of Coco Pops after school?” Coco Pops [...]

Cris Ramis of Phoenix Health and Fitness is one of our regular contributors. We would like to congratulate Cris on Phoenix’s 5th birthday on 1st February.
Cris had just set up Phoenix Health and Fitness when we were producing the magazine Healthy Life, Mind, Body & Soul, the predecessor to www.HealthyLifeEssex.co.uk  and we have worked together ever [...]

An original and provocative film, but there is plenty of positive action we can take to improve our environments, as well as erasing our past impacts.

New Government procedures to cut underage drinking have been welcomed with open arms by the boss of Basildon Council, Bala Mahendran. He said: “We welcome the new legislation from Government to tighten the law. We work hard throughout the year to tackle underage drinking with campaigns and initiatives, such as the current Challenge 25 scheme.” The underage [...]