This Mental Health Awareness Month, we’re raising awareness of loneliness and its impact on our mental health. We hope that people reflect on the question: ‘Does loneliness affect our mental health?’ and realise that loneliness could lead to mental health problems. Loneliness and its impact on our mental health: While it’s normal to experience loneliness…
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“The earth is what we all have in common.” – Wendell Berry In recent years, we have begun to understand the severe consequences that human activity has had on our planet. We are currently at a pivotal moment; evidence suggests that we only have just over a decade to prevent irreversible damage to the planet…
KILL THE BILL! KILL THE BILL! The chant echoed through the streets of Bristol as close to 3000 people marched on 21 March to protest the new Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill 2021. This blog post aims to give you a short overview of the bill and the subsequent responses to it. What…
Climate change is defined by the National Geographic as “a long-term alteration of temperature and typical weather patterns”, its impacts felt on a regional and global level, affecting everyone to a varying scale of degree. However, it is important to consider how women who face barriers due to not only their gender but factors including…
According to many political leaders the answer to this question is a resounding ‘no’. The reason for this widely held belief is that young people have often been disengaged from politics because we feel the power to make change is simply out of our hands. This has led to decades of decision making where our…