Health in Mind’s counselling service just a free call away
ACCESSING support anonymously can be a barrier for many adults who experienced abuse as children, particularly those living in rural and remote areas of Scotland. Continue reading Childhood abuse survivors access support in their own safe place
THURSDAY 12 MAY 10am – 12 noon
Join the Timebank Temptations at North Edinburgh Arts
Join the Timebank Temptations on Thursday morning
The Timebank Temptations, founded by the North Edinburgh Timebank, will bring joy to North Edinburgh this Thursday in celebration of Voluntary Arts Week – and they want YOU to join them! Continue reading Sing a song to inspire with the Timebank Temptations
PEOPLE in Scotland are being urged to stay safe in the sun, as part of Sun Awareness Week (May 9-15). Continue reading I kid you not: it’s Sun Awareness Week!
Terri Smith is a Member of the Scottish Youth Parliament, where she represents Edinburgh Northern and Leith. She is also a young woman with health problems. Read her experience of facing a DWP appeal yesterday – and ask yourself what sort of country we’ve become …
I’ve never felt so belittled and demoralised in my life until today. I was in court this morning fighting against the DWP’s decision to declare me fit for work. Continue reading Our sick society?
Free walking group at Craigroyston Community High School
Tuesdays 11am – 1pm
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Please share with your friends – and come along on Tuesday next week for a free feelgood walk with a friendly and experienced tutor who can help you go from gentle exercise to feeling more feisty and ready to take on longer walks!
First Foot Forward is a new FREE Drop In Walking Group to go out walking using public transport to access lower level local walks, taken at a leisurely pace and lasting 45 minutes to 1.5 hours in walking time.
Please wear suitable outdoor clothing and flat comfortable shoes.
Interested? Come to Craigroyston Community High School community desk – 67 Pennywell Road, EH4 4NL
Fiona Henderson
FRIDAY 29 APRIL 1 – 4pm
Aqua Relax launches at Portobello Swim Centre
For those looking for a more relaxing way to work out in the water rather than the busy atmosphere of a pool, Edinburgh Leisure is offering a new type of swim session, ‘Aqua Relax’. Continue reading Chillin’ down in Porty!
Almost 1 in 5 men ‘lethally ignorant’ they even have a prostate, new survey finds
Prostrate Cancer UK has launched a new campaign to raise awareness of the lethal disease.
The charity’s latest research reveals a shocking lack of awareness among men about their own bodies and their risk of prostate cancer, leading to thousands of needless deaths each year – but a new nationwide TV advertising campaign aims to tackle the ignorance head on.
Despite one man every hour dying from prostate cancer, it seems most men still have no idea what the gland does or even that they have one.
PCUK’s new survey of almost 2,000 men found a massive 92% of them had no idea that the prostate helps make the fluid sperm swims in and contains muscles for ejaculation, with more than half not knowing where it was in their body and 17% unaware of it altogether.
Worryingly 88% of men from higher risk groups – those over 50, black or with a family history of the disease – were unaware of their increased danger. An alarming 11% of them believed they were actually at lower risk of developing prostate cancer, and 86% of black men didn’t know they were twice as likely as any other racial group in the UK.
The shocking results coincide with our new nationwide TV advertising campaign, urging men to stop ignoring prostate cancer and join the fight to beat the disease. With enough money and the right action from clinicians and researchers, PCUK believes we can halve the 14,500 men projected to die from prostate cancer in 2026, creating the better diagnosis and treatments that will make it a disease the next generation needn’t fear.
“Ignoring your prostate can be lethal,” says Prostate Cancer UK chief executive, Angela Culhane. “You can’t see it, you can’t feel it, and shockingly many men only realise they have a prostate when it starts to go wrong.
“If men really knew what the prostate can do to them, they wouldn’t ignore it. As a country, we need to wake up and stop men dying needlessly. Ignoring prostate cancer won’t beat it – only fighting it will. Now is the time to join the fight to beat this disease.”
A mother-of-two has achieved a major milestone after becoming the 500th graduate of a pioneering drug and alcohol detox recovery programme. Emma Hogg has battled her addiction to alcohol to successfully complete the Lothian and Edinburgh Abstinence Programme (LEAP).
Continue reading Emma chooses life to become LEAP’s 500th graduate
