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Nadiya Hussain launches WaterAid appeal to help get clean water to families around the world

Stuart Mitchell

TV chef and WaterAid ambassador Nadiya Hussain MBE last month launched the international charity’s ‘Where there’s water’ winter appeal, helping raise vital funds to turn on the taps in communities in Malawi and around the world and build a brighter future. The mother of three, who has supported WaterAid since 2016, saw first-hand the impact a lack of clean water can have on families during her childhood trips to visit her grandparents in Bangladesh. She’s said remembering the trips leaves her ‘in disbelief but better equipped’ to teach her children…

The Silas Pullen Fund raises a million pounds for vital research into brain tumours

Stuart Mitchell

This article is taken straight from the Brain Tumour Charity’s website here and as such is their copyright, please take a look at their site and the great work that they do. I did not want to condense or reduce this, but I wanted to showcase the amazing work done by the Silas Pullen Fund but didn’t feel I could do it any better than this piece written by Piers Townley, hence why I copied it directly, but all of this is their hard work. The Silas Pullen Fund was…

Jack Wilshere joins forces with McDonald’s and Ronald McDonald House Charities to celebrate the charity’s 35th Anniversary

Stuart Mitchell

Ex Arsenal and England Midfielder Jack Wilshere met with families staying at Ronald McDonald House Evelina to help celebrate the charity’s 35th anniversary with parents and children staying at the free ‘home away from home’ accommodation. Cameras captured the heart-warming moment Jack Wilshere met with families who are currently staying at the Evelina House whilst their children are undergoing treatment. Having been through a similar experience with his daughter Siena, who required open heart surgery at just five years old for a congenital heart defect, Jack was moved and felt…

Holidaymakers urged to reduce, reuse or recycle inflatables

Stuart Mitchell

Over half of holiday makers (53%) will throw away their inflatable this year according to a new survey conducted on behalf of Thomas Cook. The online holiday company has joined forces with the Marine Conservation Society, the UK’s leading ocean charity, to urge millions of summer holidaymakers to consider the environment before buying plastic inflatables this year. The new survey reveals that more than a third (37%) of holidaymakers buy inflatables for their trips in the UK and abroad. But fewer than half of those surveyed (47%) said that when…

Hungry and hairy Hungarian hogs help save UK’s most endangered butterfly

Stuart Mitchell

Conservationists racing to save the UK’s most endangered butterfly have recruited the help of some unique volunteers: hairy Hungarian hogs. Butterfly Conservation is working with the National Trust using curly-haired Mangalitsa pigs at one of the charity’s sites on Exmoor to create perfect habitat for the High Brown Fritillary. Since 1978, this pretty orange insect with black chequered wings has declined by 65% in population and 87% in distribution across the UK. It is now found in just three locations in England, one of which is the sun-bathed Heddon Valley…