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African adventure is New Year goal for East Yorkshire retirees

What new year’s resolutions do you make when you are retired? Well for members of Howden University of the Third Age (U3A) group, for 2010, their resolution is to forgo the retired life and grey skies...

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From a homeless drug addict to anti-trafficking charity operations coordinator

Deb Noble is operations co-ordinator for South Yorkshire at City Hearts, the Sheffield-headquartered charity which works with victims of trafficking and modern-day slavery. Deb has an incredible story...

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Charity supporting survivors of modern slavery ask you to share the warmth this Christmas

Anti-trafficking charity City Hearts are asking you to give the gift of warmth this Christmas, by donating hats, scarves and gloves to the men and women in their safehouse accommodation. As the festiv...

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Cooking and eating together eases trauma for trafficked women:

Kathijee Wood, HR Administrator at anti-trafficking charity City Hearts, is helping survivors of modern slavery increase their confidence by teaching cooking as a life skill. Forty-seven-year-old mum-...

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I couldn't save my daughter's life but I can save others.

This Autumn I have not become an empty nester. I have been an empty nester for the past four years. That wasn’t the way it should have been. In September, my daughter Gabi would have turned 19 and bee...

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Commitment to the environment a driving force at Street Food Chef

The Street Food Chef adventure began in 2009 thanks to the belief that husband and wife team Abi and Richard Golland shared in the simple power of ‘proper food’. Passionate foodies (Richard keen on co...

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Woman who once weighed four stone credits Sheffield charity that saved her from eating disorder

A woman has credited a Sheffield charity who ‘loved her back to life’ and helped her break free from a powerful eating disorder. Jess Bramhall, 37, weighed just four stone when she arrived in Sheffiel...

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Peter’s story - trafficked to forced labour in a car wash: Anti-slavery day, 18 October 2019

Peter moved from Romania to the UK in 2014, hoping to find a better life for himself and a job that would allow him to support his mother back home. He stayed with his sister while he looked for work,...

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Youth charity in its 'Element' after moving into giant youth club

A leading Sheffield charity helping young people make a difference is ‘in its Element’ after moving into a towering new home in the heart of the city centre. The vast three-storey property - which ove...