Charity Founded As Heroes During First Wave Of COVID-19 Rebrands As Healthcare Workers’ Foundation (HWF) And Launches Emergency Appeal

The Healthcare Workers’ Foundation (HWF), previously known as HEROES, has launched an emergency appeal today – as the UK enters its second lockdown – to address what it sees as a potentially catastrophic period for the NHS and healthcare workers in the UK over the next two-years. The emergency appeal being launched today, coincides with the relaunch of the charity previously known as HEROES, under its new name, The Healthcare Workers’ Foundation (HWF). The organisation was originally launched by NHS workers for NHS workers at the onset of the first…

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Marine Plastic Pollution Turned Into 50,000 Reusable PPE Items For Front-Line Healthcare Workers Fighting Covid-19

HEROES, the charity founded by and for NHS workers, has partnered with global environmental organisation Parley for the Oceans (Parley), for a world-first collaboration, bringing recycled and reusable PPE visors to UK health workers and NGOs in the Dominican Republic. Uniting two imperative environmental and humanitarian causes, HEROES and Parley have combined already-established and community-led marine debris and plastic waste interception programmes from the Dominican Republic with a UK volunteer network producing sustainable eye protection. The raw materials used to make the pellets are intercepted in the Dominican Republic and…

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Former British Road Cycling Champion To Lead 100km Ride For The NHS

Thousands of cyclists have been hitting the roads since lockdown started and now former British national road cycling champion and multiple Tour de France stage winner, David Millar, is to lead avid riders in an epic bike ride in support of HEROES, a charity founded by and for NHS workers. Attendees can choose either a 50 or 100-mile ride that both starts and finishes in Brighton on 18 October. The course poses the challenge of around 1,000m of ascent as well as featuring the magnificent scenery of the South Downs…

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Economic stimulus meaningless without the public feeling safe: new research shows two-thirds feel safer with masks

The Chancellor announced a range of measures yesterday aiming to stimulate business and consumer spending, but this is only addressing half the battle and more needs to be done to make the public feel safe when out in public. New research from HEROES, the charity set up by NHS workers for NHS workers, and Ally, a new provider of sustainable face coverings, has found that 65% feel safer when wearing a mask in public, a figure that rises to 68% when seeing other people wearing face coverings. 71% of the…

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HEROES delivers 400,000 Body Shop products to frontline NHS workers

HEROES, the charity founded by NHS workers for NHS workers, worked with the Body Shop to make this mammoth task a reality and give back to frontline staff. The items donated include 60,000 luxury lip balms, 150,000 deluxe shower gels, 70,000 bars of scented soap, and a range of other wellbeing products, with the gifts delivered to NHS workers by the HEROES team. HEROES has raised over £1 million since the outbreak of COVID-19, supplying nearly 100,000 frontline NHS workers with sustainable visors, scrubs, reusable respiratory masks, hand sanitisers, therapy services, financial grants, food supplies, transport,…

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