Havens Hospices has received a £2,000 donation from the team at Amazon’s fulfilment centre in Tilbury. Havens Hospices provide palliative nursing and supportive care to adults and children living with complex or incurable conditions across Essex. The charity’s specialist Care Teams support patients and their...
Visitors to Thames Chase Forest Centre were treated to a beautiful spectacle on Sunday 30 August as 100 flags flew in the sunshine. The Land of the Fanns Landscape Partnership Scheme displayed the colourful silk flags created with arts organisation Kinetika, which illustrate stories gathered...
Despite the pandemic and the challenging times hospitality is facing, Stem & Glory has reached its target for this funding round in less than an hour and is now over funding at 210%. The company set out to raise £40k, adding to £200k already...
Representatives from our disabled community and related organisations were given an update on the new progress of the Inclusive Basildon Borough Scheme over a Zoom call this week with Basildon Council and Perito Ltd, who are specialists in inclusive environments. The Inclusive Basildon Borough Project was...
Over 50 new affordable homes are being built as part of a new housing development in Hatfield Peverel, Essex. Essex-based housing association CHP will own and manage the affordable homes at the Hatfield Grove development located on a former dairy site. Working in partnership with Bellway...
NHS Southend and NHS Castle Point and Rochford Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG) are working together with Southend University Hospital Foundation NHS Trust (SUHFT), Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (EPUT), Local Authorities and our GPs to reduce sepsis incidences in mid and south east Essex....
Pure have this week announced that they have won a silver medal in the 2020 Vodka Masters category at The Spirit Business Awards. From 83 entries, PURE were awarded a silver medal, less than 2 months after their 1st birthday. This is a huge achievement for...
Michaela Coel is backing Oxfam's #SecondHandSeptember campaign, raising awareness about the impact of fast fashion on the planet and garment workers, and encouraging consumers to only buy second hand clothes for the month of September. The I May Destroy You star, who'll feature as the face...
Amazon today announced that 10,000 new permanent roles are being created across the UK in 2020, taking the company's total permanent UK workforce to more than 40,000. The delivery station in Enfield will have increased its permanent headcount from around 100 at the beginning of...
A strategy that sets out the direction of regeneration for Basildon town centre will be discussed by leading councillors. The council's Town Centre Revival Committee will meet on Wednesday 9 September where they will consider the approval of a Town Centre Regeneration Strategy following the public...
