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The Voluntary Sector Was ‘Quicker and More Agile’ to Deal With Covid-19

6th October 2020

How has the pandemic affected the local voluntary sector? In the last of a three part series, Covid-19 Community Reporter Paris Ali-Pilling interviews Aurora New Dawn’s CEO, Shonagh Dillon. Read parts one and two. Paris: How have [… read more ]

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‘I Was Blown Away’: Portsmouth’s Response to Covid-19

30th September 2020

How has the pandemic affected the local voluntary sector? In the second of a three part series, Covid-19 Community Reporter Paris Ali-Pilling interviews Aurora New Dawn’s CEO, Shonagh Dillon. In part two, Shonagh talks about the financial [… read more ]

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‘We Knew There Would be an Influx of Referrals’: Covid-19 and the Voluntary Sector

28th September 2020

How has the pandemic affected the local voluntary sector? In a three part series, Covid-19 Community Reporter Paris Ali-Pilling interviews Aurora New Dawn’s CEO, Shonagh Dillon to find out about the impact on the charity, which works with [… read more ]

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Aurora New Dawn: ‘Public Support Helps Our Charity Keep Going’

6th May 2020

How has the pandemic affected funding for local charities, and how is the Portsmouth community responding? Sarah Cheverton interviews Aurora New Dawn’s CEO, Shonagh Dillon, in the latest of a weekly series examining the social [… read more ]

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Cantando Female Voice Choir Sing for Local Charity Fundraiser

28th April 2020

The Cantando Female Voice Community Choir has recorded a version of Something Inside So Strong to raise money for Portsmouth-based charity for victims and survivors of domestic abuse, Aurora New Dawn. Sarah Cheverton reports.  The [… read more ]

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How We Launched a Helpline for Domestic Abuse Victims in Lockdown

27th April 2020

S&C is working with Aurora New Dawn during the lockdown to capture the impact of the pandemic on the charity, their team, and victims and survivors of domestic abuse. This week, Aurora’s CEO Shonagh Dillon [… read more ]

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Covid-19 Raises Risk for Victims, But Help is Still Here

8th April 2020

Shonagh Dillon, CEO of Portsmouth-based charity Aurora New Dawn, talks to Sarah Cheverton about how the virus is increasing danger for victims, and how already under-funded organisations like Aurora are changing the way they work [… read more ]

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Pandemic Reveals the Epidemic of Male Violence Against Women

1st April 2020

CEO of charity Aurora New Dawn, Shonagh Dillon, writes about the implications of the Covid-19 pandemic for victims of domestic abuse and asks: what will happen to the workers of the sector once the pandemic [… read more ]

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‘A Disproportionate Response’: Why Mark Field MP’s Behaviour Matters

24th June 2019

Mark Field has been suspended as a Foreign Office minister after a video was published last week showing the MP physically removing a climate change protester from a dinner function. S&C’s Editor in Chief, Sarah [… read more ]

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Local Charity Signs Pledge to Reject Funding from Tommy Robinson

22nd May 2019

The CEO of Portsmouth-based charity Aurora New Dawn has signed an open letter from academics, activists and charities working to end sexual abuse, rejecting funding offered by Tommy Robinson as part of his European Election [… read more ]

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Portsmouth UCU Branch Condemns Iran War and Calls for University Ethics Review

27th May 2026

The Portsmouth branch of the UCU (University and College Union) has passed a motion condemning the US and Israel’s illegal wars against Iran and Lebanon, and calling for an ethical review of the University of [… read more ]

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Planetbuilding Blues: Science Fiction Special

11th May 2026

Writer and planetary modeller David Angus reminisces about science fiction (SF) conventions over the years and his friendship with SF icon Brian Aldiss. During Easter I was in Birmingham Exhibition Centre at a science fiction convention. [… read more ]

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The People’s Emergency Briefing: How to Combat Climate Change in Portsmouth

8th May 2026

Climate change is undeniably one of the biggest, if not the biggest, existential threat facing humanity. It is, however, quite difficult to grasp, and understand the impacts it currently has, and will have, not only [… read more ]

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Planetbuilding Blues: Space and Time Projects

9th April 2026

  Writer and planetary modeller David Angus details his latest projects, including Time Travel (and Dinosaurs) in Gosport. I’ve worked a lot on Jupiter’s moons, as you do. Callisto has already been mentioned in earlier [… read more ]

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Pompey Climate Choir Protests Outside Barclays Bank

27th March 2026

Portsmouth Climate Choir performed their song ‘We’re Gonna Switch Our Bank’ outside Barclays in Portsmouth in collaboration with PSC and Trans Pride Portsmouth. Viola Langley reports. Members of Portsmouth Climate Choir sang a rousing rendition [… read more ]

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