Volunteer Jack Woollands, spent time over Autumn exploring the reality of life for refugee and asylum seekers in Derby and how local charities support those communities to settle, survive and thrive...
David and Charles from Jericho Derby and High Peak Homeless Help share their thoughts ...
Katy Pugh, CEO of Age UK Derby and Derbyshire, shares her thoughts and concerns for Derbyshire's older residents as we move into 2022 and beyond. The challenges are ample but, as always, local voluntary groups and small charities are helping to address the issues they see on a daily basis and are creating new opportunities for support....
Sexual violence simply shouldn’t exist but sadly it does and has done for decades, which has been borne out recently by the National Child Sexual Abuse Inquiry and the Irish Government’s apology to victims of abuse over the last seventy years....
Food insecurity (or food poverty) is one of the many inequities and challenges in our society that has been exacerbated and highlighted by the Coronavirus pandemic....
The emotional wellbeing of children and young people is just as important as their physical health. Good mental health helps them to cope with whatever life throws at them, giving them the space to grow into well-rounded, healthy adults....
Derbyshire is a beautiful place, famed for its picturesque scenery, but hidden across our county lie pockets of significant disadvantage....
The issue of social care and how society deals with an ageing population is never far from the headlines....
