Charity Reunite Families UK, which campaigns for ‘fair family immigration policy’ shares an open letter calling on Boris Johnson to bring an end to the ‘Minimum Income Requirement policy’ which they state ‘is causing devastation’ [… read more ]
How has the pandemic affected local services and charities, their staff and the communities they serve? Sarah Cheverton talks to Jess, a Stalking Advocate at Aurora New Dawn, a Portsmouth-based charity working with victims and [… read more ]
Carolyn Barber of Portsmouth’s Good Mental Health Cooperative, and local researcher and social entrepreneur, shares advice and resources on how to manage your mental health in lockdown. In Merseyside an award winning programme for dealing with [… 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 ]
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 ]
Continuing our new series of stories from our Young People’s Voices project – funded by Victorious Festival and supported by the University of Portsmouth – Sharon Ogundele, a pupil at St Edmund’s School, shares her [… read more ]
An estimated 250,000 people in the UK suffer from Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (M.E.), with roughly a quarter of these patients house- or bed-bound. But research into the condition is significantly underfunded as less than 1% of [… read more ]
Sometimes when the cold grips the town it grips Matt Wingett‘s heart too and, during the recent snowy weather, he felt the need to get outside. Encountering Donald, a man struggling with residential housing and [… read more ]
Following the recent publication of The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume 1, 1940-1956, Katie Roberts revisits the poet’s only novel, a tormented roman-à-clef that is both gorgeous and dangerous. The Bell Jar combines bewitching poetry with a candid [… read more ]
Contrary to the dominant view, Johann Hari’s important new book Lost Connections argues that depression is caused largely by social factors. University of Portsmouth Senior Lecturer and author of Madness, Power and the Media, Dr [… read more ]
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