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By Health Correspondent, Jill Dando News It’s as old as the hills, cheap, and a simple wonder drink for your body and mind. We have taken a look at just a few of the reasons that we work better when drinking enough water - and that doesn’t mean
Mental Health
By Samara,18, Mental Health Correspondent, Jill Dando News Last week, myself and our new CEO of Young Minds, Laura Bunt, were both interviewed live on Times Radio in order to forefront our ongoing End The Wait campaign, as well as giving me a chance as a young person to
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By Samara Siviter, Mental Health Correspondent, Jill Dando News Mental Health. A silent pandemic ripping through the country. A pandemic which is destroying the lives of our young people as we are continued to be denied the support we need, writes new Mental Health Correspondent for Jill Dando News, Samara.
Mental Health
By India, 13, Jill Dando News A fun gardening club for mindfulness has been launched at a Somerset school to help boost mental wellbeing. Students at Priory Community School Academy in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset will benefit from sessions of mindfulness gardening in their one acre ‘Forest area’. The club will involve
Climate
By India, 13 and Evie, 12, Jill Dando News A school’s Eco Club has been holding a whole week dedicated to Active travel recycling and all together everything Eco. This week includes battery collections (where you bring in your used batteries) and also new and fresh Tutor time slides.
Animals
By Mollie and Emma, both 17, at Jill Dando News Meet Buddy and Frankie, the cute 16-week-old Golden-doodle puppies starting their dream new jobs at mental health charity In Charley's Memory this week. They already have five young people lined up for when they finish training. Though it’
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By Jill Dando News Chatter and Natter tables are taking to the nation to help cure loneliness. Hundreds of venues have signed up to the scheme, in cafes, pubs, libraries, hospitals – anywhere that people can sit and chat over a coffee. The aim is to kickstart conversations, get people chatting
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By Jill Dando News The Princess of Wales, Patron of Anna Freud, joined a special event to mark Mental Health Awareness Week. She took part in expert-led conversations on how we can build the mental wellbeing of current and future generations and learning about interactive activities undertaken by secondary school
Animals
By Jill Dando News They’ve been around far longer than us, singing, eating and being calm, and now apparently they are a key to a mental health boost. It’s guaranteed you have never seen a bird having a breakdown - there is so much to learn from the
Mental Health
By Evie, 11, Jill Dando News @ Priory Community School Academy Enya, 15, found a way to help her cope with her anxiety: she started boxing. An English charity is helping young people to deal with their anxiety through boxing. Enya had severe anxiety and struggled with her eating. However, she
Mental Health
The boss of one of Britain’s fastest growing mental health charities is demanding PM Riski Sunak urgently copies America’s good news push for a fast-track ban on the ‘sinisterly addictive’ social media for kids. Dawn Carey, CEO of In Charley’s Memory said unfunded charities such as hers
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By Jill Dando News This could be really good news for the mental health of millions of America children with other nations queuing up to copy their model. Legislation being introduced this month by four senators in America is aiming to ban all kids under 13 from using social media.
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By Jill Dando News The world has just celebrated the good news of the Coronation of King Charles III. Now Jeffrey the King Charles Spaniel has had his own Coronation as a mascot after cheering up hundreds of people. Jeffrey, 5, is the official ambassador for Jill Dando News, the
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By Jill Dando News reporters It was wonderful good news as King Charles III became officially the King in his coronation. Students from Priory Community School Academy (PCSA) in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset visited customers at the Alliance Dementia Day Care Centre in Worle to celebrate the coronation of King Charles III
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By Jill Dando News In a desperate age of anxiety and fear of the future, Jill Dando News is a timely positive initiative, writes The Editor It is perfect for this bad news era with rocketing mental health in all age brackets. Jill Dando News is the sort of project
Animals
By Health Correspondent The sight and tweets of birds are one of the delights of the world. Now a new study shows how birdlife encounters can treat mental health conditions New research has highlighted the mental health benefits of everyday encounters with birdlife, claiming those that hear or see birds