EastEnders has worked with the mental health charity Mind on a storyline focusing on schizophrenia. Isaac Baptiste, played by actor Stevie Basaula (pictured), will be diagnosed with the condition in
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The Duchess of Sussex has donated £10,000 to a community project tackling poverty, racism and social exclusion. Meghan (pictured) gave the money to Nottingham charity Himmah with funds from The
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Scores of charities have written an open letter to encourage people with underlying health conditions to come forward for a coronavirus vaccine. Cancer Research UK, Mencap and the Terrence Higgins
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A bid to ban Kids Company founder Camila Batmanghelidjh and seven ex-trustees of the former children’s charity from being company directors has been rejected by a High Court judge. The
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Parents of children with complex disabilities should be among the first to receive a Covid-19 vaccine, a charity has said. In a letter to Health Secretary Jeane Freeman and Deputy
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The founder of Kids Company claims the former charity’s collapse was “inevitable” because it “became a victim of its own success” and lost funders following a news report of “unverified
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Charities supporting the clinically vulnerable have accused the Government of causing “untold amounts of stress”, after new guidance on shielding was published just hours ahead of the start of a
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England’s mental health campaign Time to Change will stop next year after Government funding ended, it said. The campaign announced with “great sadness” that it will close on March 31
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Children’s services must receive urgent funding if vulnerable youngsters in England’s poorest areas are to receive help during the coronavirus pandemic, five charities have said. Local authorities’ services were experiencing
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A group of anti-hate charities have formed an alliance on Twitter in a bid to combat hate speech online. The Jo Cox Foundation and Hope not Hate are among the
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