Month: August 2019

Dementia charity launches mass survey to help shape future treatments

Stuart Mitchell

Alzheimer’s Research UK, the UK’s leading dementia research charity, is asking people to take part in a new survey that could help shape future treatments for dementia. The online survey asks for people’s views on the aspects of daily life that are most important to them, and which they’d most like to protect if they were to develop a disease that causes dementia. The survey was launched Tuesday 20 August, at alzres.uk/shapetreatments Over 850,000 people in the UK are currently living with dementia. The condition is caused by brain diseases,…

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Asda teams up with Canal & River Trust for one of the country’s largest canal clean-ups

Stuart Mitchell

Asda and Canal & River Trust are teaming up to carry out one of the country’s largest and most ambitious canal clean-ups. The ‘Asda Big Canal Clean-Up’ is a week-long initiative (2-6 September) that will cover a 10-mile stretch of waterways that pass through the city of Leeds which are looked after by waterway and wellbeing charity Canal & River Trust. Starting at Newlay Locks on Monday 2nd September and finishing at Thwaites Mills on Friday 6th September, the clean-up will take place along the Leeds & Liverpool Canal and…

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Reading Festival sewage turned into electricity

Stuart Mitchell

Hundreds of thousands of litres of sewage from the toilets at Reading Festival was transformed into renewable energy. Thames Water worked night and day to process and treat the enormous quantity of poo and pee generated by thousands of music fans over five days. But festival-goers were also being urged to be mindful of what else goes into the toilets after tents, mobile phones and sleeping bags have had to be fished out in previous years. Nine tankers, which can each carry almost 19,000 litres of sewage, worked from 6am…

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Strictly stars get older generation cha cha chatting, as conversations between neighbours halve in two years

Stuart Mitchell

As part of Sainsbury’s 150th birthday, the supermarket is bringing customers and colleagues together up and down the country to strengthen ties in local communities and improve people’s quality of life, including a day to remember for the older generation in Marske-by-the-Sea. The party included special guest appearances from Strictly Come Dancing stars Ola Jordan and Abbey Clancy. The pair got guests up on the dance-floor as well as teaching a group of local Sainsbury’s colleagues and regular customers a high-octane dance number which they performed on the night. The…

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Big Issue Invest commits £227,000 to support people affected by mental health problems in London to enter employment

Stuart Mitchell

An organisation that aims to support over 300 people with severe mental health problems enter the workplace across multiple London boroughs has received investment through an outcomes-based contract from Big Issue Invest’s (BII) Outcomes Investment Fund. BII, the social investment arm of The Big Issue, made the £227,000 investment into the Mental Health and Employment Partnership (“MHEP”) last month. The £227,000 that has been committed by BII will support people, in the London boroughs of Haringey and Barnet, who without intensive support are statistically unlikely to enter the job market.…

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