Community News The Martlets Hospice secure grant from NHS England The Martlets Hospice has secured an award of £367,860 from NHS England to implement The Renaissance Project designed to improve its facilities. NHS England awarded 176 grants to hospices across England to improve the physical environments in which they provide care. The Martlets will use its grant By Besi • 1 min read
Health Kemptown MP re-elected to HIV/AIDS Parliamentary group Simon Kirby, MP for Kemptown & Peacehaven has been re-elected as Vice Chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group on HIV and AIDS. The unanimous decision was reached at the group’s Annual General Meeting, held in Parliament this morning. Simon has been Vice-Chairman and Treasurer of the group sinc By Besi • 1 min read
Health GMFA Show Their Cock at Pride To celebrate this year’s Pride, GMFA, the gay men’s health charity, launched a new video, featuring a great big cock. But, unlike some of GMFA’s previous work, which has been noted for explicit language and imagery, this cock was family friendly enough to make it all the way to the main stage at Tra By Besi • 1 min read
Caroline Lucas, MP will adress the audience Community News Brighton & Hove to celebrate NHS 65th birthday BRIGHTON will play host to a free, public birthday party for the NHS with music, stalls, an exhibition, a giant birthday card for people to sign and birthday cake to share, on Friday July 5. Brighton Pavilion MP Caroline Lucas and Pip Tindall, an NHS worker will address the event from 4pm onwards. C By Besi • 1 min read
Health Hove MP joins heart disease campaign Mike Weatherley, the Conservative MP for Hove and Portslade, joined patients and clinicians at a Parliamentary reception on heart disease, where he signed up to the Heart Failure Pledge. Following the reception, the Heart Failure Pledge was delivered to the Department of Health. Mike was surprised t By Besi • 1 min read
Features & Longread Can do: Can’t do! Do you trust anything this government says on disability? No, me neither, so it was with some caution that I approached a press release from them that editor James handed me to write up. “Celebrities join forces with disability charity on role models campaign” runs the snappy headline, puffing up a By Kat Pope • 4 min read
Community News Peer Action Peer Action, the local HIV charity offering friendship and support through a range of outings and activities for all those living with or affected by HIV would like to say a huge ‘Thank You’ to Mark and his team at the Camelford Arms in Kemptown for the recent fund raiser for Peer Action which raise By Besi • 1 min read
Health Kemptown MP seeks meeting with the Chancellor Simon Kirby, MP for Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven has contacted the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne MP, seeking a meeting with him regarding funding for the Royal Sussex County Hospital, which is located in his constituency. Simon said: “I was delighted when the £420 million funding f By Besi • 1 min read
Community News A beauty pageant with a difference Brighton-based tuberculosis charity, TB Alert, hosted a fundraiser with a difference last Wednesday June 5 – Your Boss is a Drag. Seven bosses, from locally based companies, donned dresses, wigs and heels to compete in a traditional Miss World-style competition, raising in excess of £10,000 to help By Besi • 2 min read
Features & Longread There’s food, damned food and statistics My son ate a yoghurt the other day. It was only afterwards that I told him to look at the ‘best before’ date on the lid. It was three months out of date. He went ballistic. I told him not to be such a twerp and that he should know by now that you can […] By Kat Pope • 6 min read
Community News Mental health charity awarded additional funding to stamp out stigma MindOut, the lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) mental health project has been awarded £87,450 over the next two years as part of a national anti-stigma campaign. The funding is part of a £3.6m Big Lottery Fund grant awarded to the Time to Change campaign, which is also supported by Comic Relie By Besi • 1 min read
Health New help for homeless A new funding initiative from the Government means homeless people will receive better help once they leave hospital. The £10 million programme has received the backing of Mike Weatherley, MP for Hove & Portslade. It is estimated that currently 70% of homeless people are discharged from hospital bac By Besi • 1 min read
