Single biggest thing government could do to reduce number of economically inactive people who are long-term sick is sort out our mental health services.

Two million people in England are on NHS mental health waiting lists. theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

I’ve been walking 10 miles a day as I build up to completing the 26 mile Coastal Challenge on May 18 in support of Norwich City CSF🚶🏼‍♀️
Might go a bit further today as it’s #NationalWalkingDay 😊

justgiving.com/page/sarah-low…

Calmly taken penalty for the Norwich United goal 💙💛

Reuben Lane was awesome in goal, great penalty save, and a number of important saves to keep the scoreline down 💛💙 #UTP

'It's put a smile on a lot of people's faces and that makes it even better.' 😁

Hear from Kenny McLean as he reflects on the strike you've voted as your Scotland Men's Goal of the Year 🙌

Norfolk Creativity & Wellbeing Week 2024 returns 20-26 May!
Take part & make the week a brilliant+memorable celebration of #creativityandwellbeing across our county.
Learn more: bit.ly/43pfT8H & sign your event up to the national listings here: bit.ly/3EPtU4e

On #SocialPrescribingDay , Dr Hussain Al-Zubaidi takes a look at how healthcare professionals use parkrun to help patients on their wellbeing journey.

Find out more 👉 parkrun.me/k9vxs

🌳 #loveparkrun

Many highlights yesterday The Brecks Fen Edge & Rivers Landscape Partnership Wellbeing Festival: The Restoration Trust, wild swimming Imogen Radford, Creative Health The National Centre for Creative Health, Nature Prescriptions RSPB + discussion of barriers and enablers to access (info in alt text) + wellbeing singing w/Lynn Whitehead🎶

This is Messi. He stole the show at the Oscars last night when a video of him clapping along with the other guests went viral. He played Snoop in Anatomy of a Fall, a film that was nominated for five Oscars, including Best Picture. 14/10 would carry his Oscar for him if he won

Recent report finds women and girls are at significantly higher risk for multiple mental health problems, notably anxiety, major depression and eating disorders and almost six out of 10 (59%) identified violence + abuse as cause of their mental ill health.
theguardian.com/society/2024/m…

Britain deserves change and Labour are ready to deliver it.

Rishi Sunak should stop dithering and call a general election.

Investing in nursing is a political choice.

Tax cuts won't bring down waiting lists or solve our workforce crisis.

This was the wrong Budget for the wrong moment. Nursing deserved better.

#Budget2024 #FairPayForNursing

If you fell in love with Dexter and Emma and are looking for stories that have a similar feel, here are five books you should read.

theconversation.com/five-books-to-…

By popular request, a hybrid session has been added to the Activist Research Methods workshop to allow people to join virtually: Wednesday 27 March, 6–8:30 pm EET (UTC+2)
If you’re interested contact Isa, the facilitator (details in CfP, link in bio)
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A sad loss to Berlin’s theatre world exberliner.com/stage/theatre-…

Look towards the east, the full moon is rising 🌕

The full moon of February is typically called the snow moon... but there has not been much snow around this month ❄️

A clear and brave message from Alexey Navalny in case the regime should kill him.

We are running out of words to describe the horror unfolding for Gaza’s children.

More than 11,500 children have been killed by Israeli airstrikes and ground operations.

I sometimes get asked about the process of writing and publishing books for a general audience. So in case useful for others, I compiled some reflections, from pitch to paperback… kucharski.substack.com/p/how-to-get-a…