The Foundation of Light (FoL), Sunderland AFC’s sports charity, is aiming to get more children involved in sport and exercise through its Beacon of Light facility. In September, the FoL officially opened the Beacon of Light to the public. The Beacon is a multi-million-pound facility that boasts elite sports spaces […]
Sunderland’s Beacon of Light are making their walking football groups a weekly event to encourage good physical and mental health. Neil Couling, 38, sports programming and marketing manager, said: “There is not necessarily a set age group, but it is generally older people. There is no age limit.” The Beacon […]
A student at the University of Sunderland has called for better mental health services to be available to people in the North East area. Sam Boal, of Ulverston, Cumbria, has said that there should be more support available for people struggling with their mental health, after waiting seven months for […]
Cross-sex friendships are a recent development in modern society, so there are plenty of questions about the opposite sex you probably daren’t ask just yet. That’s why we’ve done it for you in the video below.
A student-led charity is tackling poor sex education in schools. Sexpression:UK delivers lessons on sex and relationships, from consent to contraception. According to a 2017 report by Brook, a sexual health charity, 47 per cent of young people believe traditional lessons don’t cover what they need to know about sex. […]
A pioneering new service set up by Mental Health Concern, a North East charity, has been shortlisted for a 2018 Bright Ideas in Health Award. Set up in 2016, Together in a Crisis takes an innovative approach to supporting those who are in distress due to mental ill-health, but who […]
Students from the University of Sunderland are getting ready to join an all-star panel to get personal. As part of the UK’s biggest conversation about sex, media students and staff from the University will be joined by I’m a Celebrity winner and Geordie Shore star Vicky Pattison, along with Embarrassing […]
A recent report has ranked Sunderland number five in the UK’s top 10 most unhealthy high streets. The report, published by The Royal Society for Public Health, takes a number of factors into account including the number of leisure centres, betting shops and museums that the high street has to […]
We’ve all dealt with the mess of an unexpected period. And who hasn’t felt the shame of standing in the queue with Always Ultra buried at the bottom of our basket (underneath a heap of unnecessary buys we’ve hastily thrown to hide them). Most of us will even have skipped […]
The Students’ Union at the University of Sunderland is set to decide whether to continue offering free sanitary products for all students. The Free Period campaign was launched in 2017 under then Vice President of Wellbeing and Engagement, Kirsty Paterson. The initiative, which launched on the back of coverage of […]