Families caring for young disabled adults at home are being offered help by a forward-thinking national charity to improve quality of life.
Faced with three times higher costs to bring up disabled children, the continuing cost-of-living crisis is placing families in financial jeopardy. It is therefore even harder to afford the things that improve their disabled young adult’s day-to-day living.
National charity Family Fund is now urging families with a disabled 18-24 year-old living at home to apply for wide-ranging grants through its Your Opportunity scheme.
On 1 March 2023, it will be three years since a state-of-the-art helipad opened at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, thanks to a £1million donation from the HELP Appeal. Since 2020, it has seen 283 landings from air ambulance helicopters, which is on average, nearly two landings every week.
The hospital’s previous helipad could not accommodate helicopter landings at night, but the current helipad is equipped with lighting, so air ambulances can land during darkness hours. The new helipad was also enlarged to enable the latest generation of air ambulances to land. These bigger...
When investing your money, one of the most important things to consider is how tax-efficient you’re being.
A key aspect of this is being able to invest effectively in tax wrappers. These are investments which shelter your money from potential tax charges.
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In a post pandemic world, you’d be forgiven for thinking that UK homebuyers are all still considering upping sticks and relocating for a new life in the country. Not so according to leading property portal Rightmove .
Indeed, their most searched for buyer locations in 2022 were as follows.
Dartington is delighted to announce a dynamic new partnership with Hospital Rooms to offer residencies for students on its MA Arts & Place to explore their arts practice in professional mental health settings.
Hospital Rooms, whose mission is “to bring world class art and creative programming to mental health hospitals,” will host and mentor selected postgraduate students later this year for artist residencies in Cornwall.
Students will be invited to create new work in response to a project that Hospital Rooms is currently undertaking in collaboration with Cornwall...
The symptoms after a stroke can be debilitating. Fortunately, stem cell treatment has the ability to improve the symptoms even with a condition like this.
Whether for a birthday, another special occasion, or just because you are in desperate need of a catch up, having an evening in with friends can be the perfect way to blow off some steam, have a few laughs, and bring a smile back to your face.
If you’re looking for things to with your friends, then we have got you sorted. Below is a list of fourteen different activities you could do with your friends that are fun and exciting! Check it out now.
Watch a Film or TV Show
This one is a pretty obvious one. With the invention of Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney Plus, and all of...
McLaren (Exeter) Limited are advancing exciting new proposals for a city centre co-living development; providing young professionals and key workers with much needed opportunities to live and work in the heart of the city.
McLaren’s proposal is to redevelop the brownfield, post-war buildings located on Summerland Street, EX1 2AT, between Verney Street and Red Lion Lane, and currently comprises the Yonk Asian foods and Sai Kung supermarket.
The central unit was previously used as a windscreen repair business which closed in the summer of 2022 and is now vacant.
Channel 4 is challenging secondary school students across the UK to conjure up ideas for a new TV show as part of a nationwide competition.
Students are being invited to create a new show which explores how we are Altogether Different . The only other stipulation is that the show can be set at any point in time, except in 2023.
They will need to come up with the idea for the show – which could be a drama, documentary, comedy, reality show or any other genre – create a pitch to a TV commissioning team and produce a 30-second trailer for their programme or series to...
Exeter University is providing a free online teaching resource on climate change and sustainability for Key Stage 2 pupils across the county, recorded by the university’s neurodivergent geographers, aiming to raise awareness of neurodiversity.
Neurodiversity refers to diversity in the human brain and cognition, and recognises that we all think, move, process information and communicate differently. It is estimated that around 1 in 10 people across the UK are neurodivergent , however, all humans vary in terms of our neurocognitive ability. Neurodivergent can be used as a term to...
