Basildon borough has proved that it is finding positive ways to be active with over 13 million steps logged via the new family game Street Tag. Basildon Street Tag Season One saw families collect 47,469 tags in Basildon, which added up to 20,299 miles covered by...
A new radio station for Maldon and the surrounding towns and villages, will launch in October. Caroline Community Radio 94.7 FM will provide a 24-hour, daily mix of music and community programming. The radio station will primarily broadcast from a new studio in Burnham-on-Crouch, but by...
Kinetika artists had a busy weekend making mandalas on the T100 Calling festival. On Saturday, a plastic waste mandala was created with Thames 21 volunteers and on Sunday, a Make Do and Mend mandala was completed on the foreshore in Tilbury. Thames 21 volunteers have collected...
A new interactive outdoor escape experience is coming to Essex next month with free tickets on offer for NHS workers. The Big Escape Live has been created so that hundreds can play the GPS activated game while social distancing and following the rule of six. The event...
The NSPCC's child sexual exploitation experts are warning that children have been at greater risk of abuse during lockdown - but fear many may not have been able to get help. Throughout the pandemic practitioners have continued to be there for children, and supported over...
An Epping man overcame injury and COVID-19, besides having a new baby daughter, and still managed to train and fundraise throughout lockdown for the Virtual London marathon, on 4th October, in memory of his father, Martin Calver. Scott Calver, 31, sadly lost his father, who...
The Community Access to Cash Pilot (CACP) initiative has today announced the plans for the nine Cash Pilot locations across the UK, where trials are being tested to help address challenges of improving cash access and acceptance. In June, eight locations were chosen based on the location, the issues the communities faced, and the local people...
Comedian Bob Mortimer announces Essex feline OAP Cookie as this year's purring lockdown legend in Alternative Cat Awards Twenty-one-year-old Cookie, whose peaceful purring melted the hearts of cat lovers, has been crowned the winner of Cats Protection's Alternative Cat Awards. With its annual National Cat Awards...
A vibrant Remembrance Ribbon Display will be on show at Memorial Garden in Clacton-on-Sea to mark Baby Loss Awareness Week 2020. After the success of last year, Maria Gormley is working with Sands, Stillbirth & neonatal death charity to raise awareness of pregnancy and baby...
2020 amplified the capital’s need for City Harvest, redistributing nutritious surplus food to those unable to access food. More than 2.3 million Londoners face food poverty - a figure rising faster than can be reported. Businesses waste more food than is being missed by those facing hunger...
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