Beamish, the world famous open air museum, is hoping to draw in the crowds this Easter with a whole host of activities for families. The Museum, which tells the story of life in the North East during the 1820s, 1900s and 1940s has a fantastic range of activities for the […]
A petition launched to make mental health education compulsory in schools is being welcomed by Sunderland’s Mental Health Matters. The petition launched in January is hoping to make mental health education compulsory in primary and secondary schools across the UK. The petition which currently has in excess of 40,000 signatures […]
A Sunderland charity shop is asking local students for their help in boosting their number of volunteers during Student Volunteering Week which runs from 20-26 of February. St Oswald’s Children’s Hospice shop opened on High Street West Sunderland in April 2016 but has struggled to find sufficient volunteers. Retail Area […]
National Volunteers Week runs each year to celebrate the work each and every volunteer does but this year the week has been extended to enable more time for the celebrations. Each year over 21 million Britons volunteer in the week, a figure which adds an estimated 23.9 billion to the […]
More than 300,000 of the UK’s over 65s are thought to be “chronically lonely”, a new research shows. The findings suggest that loneliness is a silent killer which affects the country’s elderly. According to Age UK, more than 2 million over 75s live alone, with more than a million saying […]