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Escape Interventions - Counselling Charity Seeking Out Assistance As Demand For Its Services Rise
A South Tyneside young people’s counselling and support services charity is calling for help to fund ongoing operational costs after a challenging year aiding more than 300 families and children facing difficulties. South Shields-based, Escape Intervention Services, is seeing rising demand for its services post-lockdown from young people aged from...
Show Us How Much You Care by Filling in a Form
The independent champion for people who use health and social care services in our region is asking the public to support a new campaign to share their experiences, both good and bad, to help improve services. Healthwatch Newcastle and Healthwatch Gateshead are participating in the initiative from Healthwatch England and...
Climbing Mountain and Raising Awareness of Chronic Heart Disease
STAFF AND members of a Washington gym scaled The Old Man of Coniston to raise funds for a leading North East charity. Pinchaninch Body Transformation Centre owners Darren and Nichola Tyrie joined personal trainers and more than 60 of their gym regulars to climb the mountain at the Lake District...
Free Heart Checks on Wheels: Newcastle's 'Your Heart Matters Bus' Offers Lifesaving Screenings
September 2023 – Cardiologists from Freeman Hospital and UK initiative, Valve for Life, will be offering FREE heart checks on a heart bus in an attempt to find people who could be unaware that they have heart valve disease. In the UK as many as one in 10...
True Student Accommodation is hosting puppy parties during exam season to help students unwind. To combat exam stress, residents at true Student accommodation around the UK are being treated to a puppy party. During these events, puppies are brought into the accommodation for students to play with to help lower...
Parkinson’s UK’s Garden Gathering fundraiser is encouraging friends and family to celebrate the summer their way with a fun-filled fundraiser - whether it’s with tea and cake, or cocktails and a BBQ. The money raised from the events will go towards Parkinson’s UK’s pioneering research to help end Parkinson’s...

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