What’s New - England
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Helping Young Families
28th October 2020
The WILD Young Parents’ Project works with young parents under the age of 23, along with their children and babies across the most deprived areas of Cornwall.
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Footprints Is A Very Happy Place
28th October 2020
Over the lockdown period, teenager Joseph Rutherford from West Bridgford, near Nottingham decided to do something special to help others.
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Responding to loss and loneliness
28th October 2020
Oyovwe founded the Widows’ Empowerment Trust after seeing a close friend lose her husband and sensing her loneliness and social isolation. Oyovwe is one of 12 people who have a bench dedicated to them
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A Song For Life
28th October 2020
A Swan Song Project is a unique idea that supports people near the end of their lives or facing the loss of a loved one, to write and record their own songs.
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We see Lonely People Come To Life Again
28th October 2020
Emily Kenward is the founder of the charity Time To Talk Befriending, which provided immense support to elderly people during lockdown.
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Putting veterans at ease
26th October 2020
It was lived experience that motivated Claire Wright and Chris Squires to start Trafford Veterans. Both veterans – Royal Navy and King’s Regiment respectively – the Stretford-based couple found themselves needing support five years ago, but struggled to find help.
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TV STAR DR RANJ PRESCRIBES MAJOR AWARD FOR FOOD CHAMPIONS
19th October 2020
This Morning resident doctor and former Strictly Come Dancing star Dr Ranj Singh has named inspirational husband and wife duo ‘Lockdown Legends’ in coveted National Lottery Awards, for their work providing surplus food to those in need.
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How a taxi driver helped me talk
9th October 2020
William Hall is a 25-year army veteran who had fallen into isolation, that is until he met David Gibson, the founder of Fares4Free.
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Olympic gold medallist Denise Lewis reveals first National Lottery Award 2020 winner!
8th October 2020
The winner of the National Lottery Award 2020 - Health category
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Thanks for the memories
21st September 2020
Wigan Warriors used money from The National Lottery to form a social group for people with dementia
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I've turned my living room into a Gym!
21st August 2020
National Lottery funded athlete Ali Jawad has been working out in his living room in lockdown, using the Games’ postponement to bolster his bid for a maiden gold medal. We catch up with him on his Track To Tokyo
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Track to Tokyo - The ones to watch
22nd July 2020
To celebrate one year to go (again) until the Tokyo Games, we teamed up with UK Sport to introduce you to our 21 athletes you should be keeping an eye on in a year's time.