Our destination was the Open Day at Community Roots which is a new project combining students and staff from The Queen Katherine School, adult volunteers and young people not in education or employment (NEETs). The full project started in January and today was a chance for the gardens to be shown to the community plus [...]
Something as simple as giving away your unwanted make up, beauty products or babies products can make one hell of a difference to those in need. Like this?Read more… Recommended by Stuff n Things
What can you get for £1 in these days of cuts, recession & austerity? Go to a Poundstretcher-type shop & get something that’s useful but for only a short time? And is probably half horse? Maybe not. Half a lager, or a small glass of wine? I don’t know about you but I’d rather have [...]
In support of Save The Children’s Power Of The First Hour campaign Like this?Read more… Recommended by MotherWifeMe
I may be naive but I was shocked to discover that global breastfeeding is on the decline in African countries including Nigeria and Ethiopia and throughout East Asia. The decline has been put down to a global shortage of health workers and “inappropriate marketing techniques by some baby milk substitute companies.” Like this?Read more… Recommended [...]
Yesterday I wrote a post about Save the Children’s new campaign on breastfeeding. Today I’m absolutely thrilled to have a guest post on the blog from Tasya, an inspiring woman who works as the head of advocacy and legal division for an organisation in Indonesia called AIMI. AIMI (the Indonesian Breastfeeding Mothers Assocation) is a group [...]
When I started this blog, nearly two years ago, one of my very first posts was titled ‘Breast is Best, but there’s no need to keep shouting about it.’ I stand corrected. Sometimes, it’s absolutely crucial to shout about it. Like this?Read more… Recommended by DorkyMum
Postcard from #TeamHonk. Good Work!! Like this?Read more… Recommended by Red Ted Art
Like drawing? Or just tracing? Want to help out adults with Alzheimer ‘s Disease, Dementia or impaired cognitive function after a stroke in a creative way? Then this is the project for you!! Like this?Read more… Recommended by ScissorsPaperRock
This weeks sees TeamHonk spring into fundraising action with a host of fun-fundraising activities. We kick off today with something for the hardcore mo fo’s out there… yes siree come Saturday 2nd March we’ll be climbing Mount Snowdon and suffice to say that we need you! Yes you, you there looking shifty, not maintaining eye [...]
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself and the other for helping others Like this?Read more… Recommended by Babybudgeting
This year Comic Relief celebrates it’s 25th birthday. If you don’t already know, there are three bloggers who have gone to Ghana to see the good work which is being done by Comic Relief. They are: Annie Spratt (@mammasaurusblog), Tanya Barrow (@mummybarrow) and Penny Alexander (@aresidence). Mummy Barrow sent me this digital postcard which shows the [...]
Where do I start?! If you haven’t already heard about all the #goodwork furore surrounding the 25th anniversary of Comic Relief, then you must have been on another planet! Yes, it has been 25 years already. Can you believe it? It is something that we have all grown up with – wearing the famous red [...]
Yesterday morning we visited the Virtuous Women’s Bakery in Accra, Ghana. It’s been such an inspiring experience that I just don’t think that I have the words to do it justice and so here are my favourite photographs which I took at the project – I defy you to look at them and not smile [...]
Mental illness in the UK often walks hand in hand with stigmatization but suffer from poor mental health in Ghana and you can find yourself triply disadvantaged by not only stigma but also illness and poverty. Luckily for Atta he sought help and through numerous visits across the city to a mental hospital he discovered [...]
That doesn’t seem enough does it? The amazing blogging army shouting from the roof tops over the past week has be A-to-the-Mazing. I know that I speak for not only myself but also Penny and Tanya when I say we have been blown away by the support you have given us and the huge love [...]
I’ll hold my hands up and admit that I’d never given much thought to what goes on behind the scenes at the filming of a Comic Relief report on telly or radio. I guess I just assumed that they wheel on the presenter who does their piece and then that’s that. Like this?Read more… Recommended [...]
Those of you that read my blog regularly will know that I suffer from depression and that mental health is important to me. So when I found out that #teamhonk were going to Ghana as part of the celebrations of 25 years of Red Nose Day and I heard that they were going to a mental [...]
I wanted to highlight the dangers of Chinese lanterns and balloon releases on the environment Like this?Read more… Recommended by PLUS 2.4
Comic Relief hasn’t really been on my radar for the last few years. I loved it when I was a kid – the anticipation every two years of finding out what the red nose was going to look like (my favourite remains the fluffy one), the daft fundraising events that people would do at school, [...]
