Searches for local volunteering opportunities have increased 124% in one year — is the UK becoming more charitable?
Volunteering is nothing of a new concept, for years people have been giving up their spare time to help other people and causes in need. But, over the past year, we’ve noticed a significant rise in people searching for local volunteering opportunities — could we becoming more inclined to work for free? By Shutter.B Shutterstock A rising trend According to NCVO’s January 2019 survey of over 10,000 respondents, almost four in 10...
Win 1 of 4 Special Edition GOSH Peter Rabbits! | #LittleStuff24
“Siiiiilent night. Hoooooly night.” Behind door number five of our 2018 Advent Calendar is your chance to win 1 of 4 absolutely beautiful limited edition GOSH Peter rabbits. This gorgeous Peter Rabbit is definitely the gift that gives twice – it’s the adorable Great Ormond Street version. This soft (and most definitely huggable) Peter Rabbit has been designed to feature original artworks created by young patients at a...
Dream pets – what would yours be?
If there’s one thing my children have always wanted, it’s a cat. Actually that’s not quite true. The eldest remembers us having a cat – this, my beloved Elwood. (yes Elwood – we had Jake & Elwood the Blues Brothers. Except they turned out to be the Blues Sisters. Then Jake got run over… Elwood didn’t really work anymore, did it?) Except she was elderly when No.1 came along, and she was...
Help Teach A Taxi Driver New Tricks #Accessallareas
It’s something most of us dog owners don’t need to think about – if we want to go somewhere with our dog then we sort out the transport accordingly. But if you can’t go out without your dog, then the need for simple reliable transport for both of you becomes imperative. As far as I knew, Guide Dogs are allowed everywhere – even places that don’t admit dogs say yes to a Guide Dog. And so they should,...
I Grew Up In An Old People’s Home.
It’s a little-known fact about me that I spent my entire youth in old people’s homes. My Mum was initially a care assistant, and of course there was always a handy babysitter to do jigsaws with in the communal lounge. I was a mad good at jigsaws by the time I was 7. Then she moved on to be a community care assistant – and if ever I was off school sick I’d accompany her on her rounds – for some visits I...
Seconds Matter – Arthritis in the ones we love.
Last week I was chatting to my lovely Mother in Law, who has been suffering rather too silently for some time with a very painful shoulder (caused, she’s convinced, by the time she got knocked off her moped by a bus. Yes, until pretty recently she used to bomb all over town on her moped – and now at the grand old age of 72 she’s trying to get to grips with driving a car again…). She admitted that she’d...