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Mental health awareness

May 11, 2022

It’s Mental Health Awareness Week (MHAW) 2022. As usual, I’ve dutifully shared this information on my social media profiles, and made suitably supportive noises. I know I did the same last year, and the year before, and probably the year before that. But I have to confess to feeling that being ‘aware’ is very possibly … More Mental health awareness

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The ones that got away… #2 Volunteer

March 30, 2017

In 2016, I discovered that becoming a volunteer is not as simple as it sounds. In fact, I wonder whether the fact that volunteers are often thin on the ground could be linked to the bureaucracy and roadblocks faced by those who try to offer their time! I tried to volunteer at a church-run night … More The ones that got away… #2 Volunteer

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