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HSCVF Voted Best Grant-Funding Programme in the UK

Published by Anthony Mercier on Wed, 05/12/2012 - 17:48

The Health and Social Care Volunteering Fund (HSCVF) has won a prestigious Directory of Social Change (DSC) Social Change Award 2012 in the category ‘Great Giving Funders’ for its bespoke organisational support package. The Fund is managed by Ecorys, in partnership with Attend, Community Service Volunteers (CSV) and Primetimers.

Two years after a brain injury left him introverted and aggressive, James Cracknell and his wife Bev tell how it nearly tore them apart

Published by Nathan.McIntosh on Mon, 12/11/2012 - 09:45

Olympic rower James Cracknell and his wife Beverley have talked about little else in the past two years besides whether they can hold their marriage together. They’re still not sure. The other weekend they celebrated their tenth wedding anniversary with a night away at a hotel in Richmond, south-west London. It was one of the few grown-up times they’ve had together without their three children – Croyde, nine, Kiki, three, and 18-month-old Trixie – since James suffered a brain injury after being whacked on the back of the head by the wing mirror of a petrol tanker while cycling in Arizona