Man diagnosed with cancer during lockdown walks 240 miles to raise money for The Christie manchestereveningnews.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from manchestereveningnews.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Posted Wednesday, May 12, 2021 - 6:07am The hills, valleys, and viewpoints around Exeter get a national television spotlight this month on the BBC’s Songs of Praise, in a programme coming from the city on Sunday 16th May. Hosted by presenter Aled Jones, one of several projects chosen for filming was Exeter COSY Routes, launched last year by the Exeter Dementia Action Alliance. The COSY project is a mapped 26.2-mile marathon distance route around the city, comprising eight shorter circular routes of between four and seven miles. It was created by keen runner and walker Jo Earlam, a board member of the alliance, and with experience of dementia through three generations of family. Both her late grandmothers and father Bernard had dementia in later life, and now her husband John is living with the disease.
By Steve Farrell2021-05-10T11:44:00+01:00
Iceland is backing a campaign to raise awareness of sepsis and spread life-saving knowledge about the potentially deadly condition.
The Iceland Foods Charitable Foundation has worked with the UK Sepsis Trust to co-develop and provide funding for an initiative encouraging businesses to educate staff about possible signs.
Companies signing up to ‘Sepsis Savvy’, of which Iceland is the first, are asked to encourage staff to play an online educational game and watch a four-minute video in which actor Jason Watkins describes losing his two-year-old daughter to the condition.
The UK Sepsis Trust’s website invites companies to get accredited for backing the campaign by explaining what they have done to encourage awareness. They are also asked to “shout about it on social media using #sepsissavvy”.
CAMPAIGNERS have launched what they say will be the UK’s biggest ever beach clean, as part of efforts to tackle the threat of plastic pollution to marine wildlife. Surfers Against Sewage have marked the launch of their “million-mile beach clean” with a 50-metre sand drawing of a seal surrounded by plastic on Cayton Bay near Scarborough. The charity hopes to inspire 100,000 people to clean up their local beach, river, street or green spaces, to clear a million miles by the end of 2021, as part of a new “million mile clean” environmental campaign. The initiative aims to encourage people to get out locally as lockdown eases to tackle litter and plastic waste on streets, country lanes, parks and along waterways, as well as beaches.
Amazing response to young man s bid to walk 240 miles just one year after being diagnosed with cancer manchestereveningnews.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from manchestereveningnews.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.