EAST Thurrock MP Stephen Metcalfe has praised the work of a regional ccancer charity that supports young people after visiting its' Family Funday' in Orsett at the weekend.
THE Women’s Institute (WI) in Thurrock and Essex Freemasons have got together with a local charity, ‘Get Started Art’, and the Stifford Clays Health Practice PPG (Patient Participation Group) to provide knitted toys and clothes for a Basildon based charity ‘Colourful Beginnings’. Around 60,000 babies are born prematurely every year in the UK. This means that one in every 13 babies is born before 37 weeks. At Colourful Beginnings, they support families with premature and sick babies in Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs) all over the UK.
THE minister for disabled people has been criticised by one of his own MPs for failing to consult properly with disabled people’s organisations over his forthcoming disability action plan reports Disability News Service.
PINEAPPLE Care Services Ltd are proud to announce our Learning Disability students participated in a charity walk of 20 miles, throughout the whole of June to raise money for Great Ormond Street Hospital. This was a huge achievement for our Learning Disability Students, as some of them are living with high anxieties and struggle leaving the home, one student is blind, other students have a range of disabilities from being non-verbal, living with cerebral palsy, epilepsy, and autism.
THURROCK-based outdoor arts festival, T100 has recently been awarded a substantial grant by the National Lottery Reaching Communities Fund which is to be utilised over the next three years starting from September. The funds will be used to help deliver more activities in the region as well as engage with more people within the community, while preparing for T100 to becoming an independent organisation.
THIS week is Learning Disability Week (19-25 June) and young people with learning disabilities or autism have been gaining valuable work experience thanks to a scheme at local hospitals.
THE team at the Amazon fulfilment centre in Tilbury is celebrating Armed Forces Day (24th June) by paying tribute to the veterans and reservists from the services community who work at Amazon across the UK.
DESPITE hopes being high that the Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill would finally start to progress through Parliament today, when MPs faced a binding...
