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 ]
This week is National Stalking Awareness Week and in this personal account, Rebecca shares her experience of being stalked, from the beginning right through to the court case, and highlights how she couldn’t have done [… read more ]
With claims for Universal Credit totalling 1 million as a result of the Coronavirus crisis, Luke Penston remembers his past experience of the benefits system years ago, which started off badly but soon improved thanks [… read more ]
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 ]
Film actor Denise Black, who grew up in Portsmouth, will talk about how music can help relieve depression at a screening event on Thursday November 7. Peter Gruner reports. She’ll speak on behalf of the [… read more ]
The Big Lunch is an annual event run by the Eden Project and funded by the National Lottery, which aims to bring millions of people across the country together to share food and get to [… read more ]
A group of walkers from The Eden Project’s Big Lunch are visiting a local housing association and the John Pounds Centre today, as part of 17 day walk to celebrate community projects across the UK. [… read more ]
S&C is proud to share Portsmouth City Council’s Stories from the City project, which aims to ‘celebrate the people behind Portsmouth’s vibrant voluntary and community sector – one story at a time.’ Deborah Robinson, Service [… read more ]
Sue Stokes, founder of community garden Southsea Green, Vik Burnand and Sarah Clark, from Catch 22 Study Programme, report on Solent All Stars – their partnership project with young people in Portsmouth. As readers may already [… read more ]
Scott Jowett recalls his experiences working in the voluntary sector in Portsmouth and beyond and asks if the impact of austerity is forcing charities to behave like the private sector. In 2008, I moved back [… read more ]
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