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 ]
Katie Carew-Robinson, trainer for Portsmouth GoodGym, talks to Star and Crescent reporter Helen Salsbury about a charity and fitness club which allows Pompey residents to get fit while helping the local community. Edited by Beth [… read more ]
Councillor Claire Udy shares why International Women’s Day is important to her, and why we should all celebrate and support women, every day. I have always been politically inclined. From the moment I sat in [… read more ]
When Portsmouth resident Charis Webster became a professional journalist she thought she’d found her dream job. However, the stresses and pressures soon took their toll. University of Portsmouth Creative Writing student, Elizabeth Palmer, reports. Charis [… read more ]
The Society of St James (SSJ) is a Hampshire-based homelessness charity that provides accommodation and support to over 2500 people each year. Here the charity’s team explore why homelessness in Portsmouth and the surrounding area [… 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 ]
Ian Parker has been a dinghy sailor for 50 years and a dinghy instructor for almost as long. In 2001 he spent some time in mental hospital and is a recovering alcoholic. Here, Ian reports [… read more ]
Portsmouth journalist and campaigner for justice for victims of vCJD (the human variant of ‘Mad Cows Disease’) Christine Lord recounts her experiences of losing a child and asks why society still struggles to acknowledge and [… 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 ]
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