THE daughter of a PAHT staff member will take on a 15-mile cycling challenge to raise funds to support patients with cancer. Nine-year-old Amany Edwards, whose mum is head of nursing for cancer Louise Edwards, will complete the cycle ride along the River Lee from…

Caring through covid: local palliative care doctor opens up for Hospice Care Week South Woodford resident, Dr Jonathan Riordan, 33, shares his experiences of delivering palliative care during a pandemic as part of Hospice Care Week. Palliative care consultant Dr Jonathan Riordan, from West Essex…

DESPITE appalling running conditions and no crowds to cheer him on, Special Inspector Andy Jamieson completed his first London Marathon for eight years, raising £350 for a very special charity. Andy is a member of Harlow Community Policing Team so, of course, when it came…

WRITTLE University College student and community organiser, Elliot Wollen, has been changing lives within the Harlow area. In 2013 he launched ‘Herts & Essex Community Farm’, a not-for-profit project that produces organic food for volunteers, homeless support organisations and local residents. Elliot spent time in…

THIS is a really important time for Harlow Foodbank. There has never been a more important time to support Harlow Foodbank. With autumn here and winter coming; with furlough for workers coming to an end this month and with over 16,000 residents in Harlow on…

Sir, WE want to take the opportunity of Hospice Care Week (5-11 October) to thank everyone in our local community for their support, especially during the coronavirus pandemic, to ensure that St Clare Hospice can carry on being there for those who require specialist palliative…

Robert Findlay our Town and Communities Chaplain and key founder and developer of Heart 4 Harlow is retiring at the end of the year, when he and his wife Chris will be moving to their home in Ipswich. Roberts official work for Heart 4 Harlow finishes…

ALMOST one million women in the UK have missed vital breast screening due to coronavirus, a leading charity has estimated. Breast screening programmes were paused in March as the NHS focused resources on tackling the pandemic.  Breast Cancer Now calculates that around 8,600 women who…

DEREK Oakley from Daniel Robinson Harlow funeral home attended the cheque presentation for £10,000 from Essex Freemasons to The Child Death Review Team based at St Margaret’s Hospital in Epping. During the Covid 19 outbreak, the Lodge of Borrowed Light, Harlow, where Derek is a…

Local Hospice opens up to explain #ThisIsWhatItTakes to run a Hospice during a pandemic AS part of this year’s Hospice Care Week – running 5-11 October, St Clare Hospice will be opening its virtual doors to local people to explain ‘This is what it takes’…

A TOTAL of 220 people took part in St Clare Hospice’s Walking in Memory 5k walk on Sunday (20September) as the annual flagship sponsored fundraising event went ahead with covid-secure rules in place – raising around £8,000 for the hospice charity in vital funding.  As…

THE BOSS of charity Macmillan has announced that there will be a series of redundancies for the charity. CEO Lynda Thomas issued the following statement: “From the moment lockdown began on March 23, all our lives changed overnight. We lost many of our freedoms, our…

HARLOW Foodbank, dedicated to helping families in crisis for more than 10 years, has received a £1,000 donation from local Freemasons to help fund their vital work across West Essex. The money was donated by members of Essex Border Lodge, which meets in Harlow, and…

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