Water Worries
Ask most adults in the UK how much water they should be drinking and you’d be told “eight glasses a day.” But it’s a myth, believed to be a misinterpretation of some advice given in the 1940s. How can it be true when we are all different sizes, some of us are active and some are sedentary, and the weather may be sweltering or freezing? […]
COVID19 – Reflections on the Pandemic from a Family Doctor’s View
The last few months have been extraordinary for us all with the restrictions imposed on our lives, and tremendous challenges faced, we are proud of the way our community pulled together. Support groups and volunteers stepped up within a couple of days of lockdown being announced and it has been a great example of teamwork. […]
Bare-Face Benefits: Why The Natural Look Is Back by Mel Holbrook
For those of us accustomed to the rat race, lockdown offered a very different way of life. And after several weeks trapped at home, many of us got used to seeing a different version of ourselves. With no workplace to attend, no one to visit and nowhere to go except the local park, it made sense to dress casually and ditch our usual make-up routines. […]
Throughout our lockdown, people from all over Coventry and Warwickshire started to think about ways they could give something back and help within their communities. We put a plea out to hear from those people around the area who have been sewing tirelessly in an effort to provide scrub bags and headbands for NHS workers on the frontline. […]
NHS Heroes Poem
By Alicia x
Intensive Care Unit Nurse at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham
We are called heroes
We are thanked by your claps […]
Henry’s Responds to the PPE Challenge!
The Design and Technology Team at Henry’s (Mr Sweetman, Mr Rendle, Mr Phillips and Mr Timson) have been doing their bit for the Coronavirus Crisis through the manufacture of PPE for healthcare workers, care homes and medical professionals who are on the front line in hospitals, GP surgeries and hospices across the West Midlands. […]
Helping Key Workers and Anxiety Sufferers During Covid-19
Ever wondered how you could help during the Covid-19 pandemic? Emily Young from North Warwickshire felt the same.
Inspired by a lady on her Craft Forum on 1st April, she made some NHS uniform wash bags. Posting them on her Facebook sewing page ‘Vintage Country Rose’, she offered them FREE to NHS workers. […]
Community Project Makes Over 15,000 Face Visors
Broken Souls Rescue is a Coventry based non-profit CLG which rescues unwanted or abandoned pets from vets, council pounds and private emergency calls from the general public. We are a volunteer run community project originally funded by The Princes Trust and run solely on donations from the public. […]
A Stitch in Time to Save Lives in Front Line Pandemic Battle
The ‘make do and mend’ spirit is coming to the fore in the battle against the coronavirus thanks to a community initiative aimed at offering direct help to NHS workers on the front line. […]
Soon after Coronavirus/Covid19 reared its ugly head, I read a request on a Facebook post asking for ‘scrubs bags’. Staff working on the frontline would change out of their dirty uniforms and scrubs and place them into a bag that would be carried home. It was suggested that they were then put into the boot of their car and thrown lockstock into their washing machine. The idea was to reduce the chances of cross contamination and protect themselves and their families. […]
