How has the pandemic affected working, social and political life for people with increased vulnerability to Covid-19 because of disabilities or long term health conditions? Our Covid-19 Community Reporter, Rosy Bremer talks to local resident [… read more ]
Our Covid-19 Community Reporter, Rosy Bremer, who is currently reporting on the impact of Covid-19 on people with disabilities in Portsmouth, shares her own recent experience of standing up for people with hidden disabilities at [… read more ]
How has the pandemic affected the working, social and political life for people with increased vulnerability to Covid-19 because of disabilities or long term health conditions? Our Covid-19 Community Reporter, Rosy Bremer talks to local [… read more ]
Local resident and founder of Stripy Lightbulb CIC, Sally Callow, shares her experience of ‘long Covid’ as someone living with M.E and explains growing concerns that for many, Covid-19 may trigger M.E. As a M.E [… read more ]
Local resident and photographer John Callaway gives an insight into what the government’s ‘one size fits all’ COVID-19 guidance means for someone with a learning disability and physical health conditions, and how it can inadvertently set [… read more ]
Local parent, researcher and writer, Maddie Wallace, continues her daily diary describing the experience first, of self-isolating, and now of being in lockdown with her children in Southsea. We’re at Day 66, and Maddie decides to [… read more ]
Sally Callow, Portsmouth resident, M.E patient and M.E patient advocate reports on the growing concerns about the implications of Covid-19 as a potential cause of M.E, as expressed by the ME Association and others. Sally [… read more ]
S&C contributor and Portsmouth social entrepreneur, Sally Callow, is looking for volunteers for her social enterprise, Stripy Lightbulb CIC, which provides training to professionals about ME/CFS. Stripy Lightbulb CIC is a Portsmouth-based social enterprise on [… 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 ]
Star and Crescent are proud to be working with Portsmouth fundraising campaign M.E. Foggy Dog and its founder Sally Callow on a week of articles devoted to raising awareness of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (M.E.). In the [… read more ]
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