Citizens Eye Mental Health Agency Asks How Are You Today

The next open meeting/gathering of Citizens Eye’s mental health agency, ‘How Are You Today?’, will be taking place this coming Sunday (3rd February) in the café area at Phoenix Square in Leicester, beginning at 2.00 pm and lasting for about an hour.
For those who haven’t been before, the purpose of the group is really to [...]

Britain’s hidden homeless and the death of Michelle Conroy

From The Observer
By Elizabeth Day:
Michelle Conroy died in November, aged 21, when a tree fell on the tent where she was sleeping rough. Elizabeth Day unravels the life and death of ‘the orange squash girl’ and meets some of her friends in Devon who are surviving on the margins of society.
See more at:http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/jan/20/hidden-homeless-michelle-conroy-exeter

Hoods Close Back On The Agenda

From thisisleicestershire.co.uk
A group of councillors has urged Leicester’s mayor to build three gypsy and travellers’ sites in one part of the city – and ditch one of his original chosen locations.
A Leicester City Council scrutiny commission was asked by Sir Peter Soulsby to review his choice of three sites – at Redhill Way, in Abbey [...]

Gypsy Roma Traveller Month on the Community Channel

There will be some fantastic programmes broadcasting in June as part of Gypsy Roma Traveller history season, including films following the lives of GRT communities in the UK as well as those on the continent.
Read our blog from Travellers’ Times.

Gypsy Life – Born on the Straw
Ainlee was born on the straw – a Gypsy custom. [...]

Sun Reporters to be Trained on Mental Health Reporting

For your information:
 http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/sun-journalists-to-be-trained-on-mental-health-reporting-after-complaint/s2/a548871/

SAQ® International Backed in South African Parliament

SAQ® International have recently been mentioned and recommended in South African Parliament during a Human Rights debate discussing ‘Children and Youths in Modern Democracy’.
Mark Wiley, Community Safety, Cultural Affairs and Sport lead for the opposition Democratic Alliance party, presented information about the positive effects that SAQ® International’s Early Movement coaching principles are having on primary [...]

Traveller Solidarity Website

From Traveller Solidarity:
We are a Direct Action based network whose purpose is to fight ethnicity and class based discrimination and persecution against Travellers, Roma and Gypsies. We came together through Dale Farm Solidarity and Camp Constant resisting the eviction of Dale Farm, and intend to continue working in solidarity with Travellers across the UK and [...]

Vista & Henry Smith & Hamylton Launch Partnership

Henry Smith & Hamylton opticians are celebrating their 125th anniversary of local independent family run eye care this year.
 As part of their celebrations the Company have decided to run a series of charity fundraising events in partnership with Vista, a local charity that support people with sight loss in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. Fundraising activities for Vista [...]

Research Breakthrough on Feeding of Premature Vulnerable Babies

The way premature babies are fed in hospitals could be set to change following the results of a research programme – funded by children’s charity Action Medical Research* – which were published in the journal Pediatrics yesterday, 9 April 2012.
High-risk premature babies are vulnerable to severe bowel problems, which has led previously to a tendency [...]

Social Work with LGBT – Julie Fish Book Launch

Julie Fish’s new book has just been published:
Social work with lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people: making a difference. Bristol: The Policy Press.
Book Launch: Trinity House The Newarke, De Montfort University Leicester.
May 30th 2012 6-7.30pm
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“An outstanding and invaluable text for social workers and other practitioners that brings together legal, historical and human rights perspectives on [...]

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