In the UK, the Voluntary Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector play a vital role in supporting the health and wellbeing of people who are marginalised or experiencing multiple complex needs. However, only a small number of studies have focused on the impact that...
Who we are The World Fair Trade Organization (WFTO) is the global community and verifier of enterprises that fully practise Fair Trade. We are an association of visionary Small and Medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that believes that a new economy is possible: together, we stand as a collective...
Some of her vegan outreach includes being involved in Support + Feed, her mother Maggie Baird’s vegan charity, which providesplant-basedfood for marginalised communities to help tackle the climate crisis. Eilish promotes the organisation’s work on her tours, while also convincing London’s O2 ...
They suggest it is these agendas, which are enabling policyholders and big business to cash in at the expense of those most commonly targeted, namely the most disadvantaged and marginalised members of society who find it difficult to thrive in a neo‐liberalist environment. Chapter 2 carries the...
Leading the charge for representation in meditation apps is Shine, created by Marah Lidey and Naomi Hirabayashi, a Black woman and a half-Japanese woman, who wanted to centre the mental health of marginalised groups they felt were "otherized" in mainstream wellness. The pair met as coworkers ...
Well done to the guys who produced it –Crew: mind altering(also known as Crew2000 and Crew25). These dudes have been around in the UK for a LONG time now and have always produced good information and have lots of great stuff on psychedelics and stimulants. Well worth a visit. ...
Understanding differences in worldviews is particularly important for colonised parts of the world such as Canada, Australia and New Zealand where indigenous or First Nation peoples are sometimes marginalised from policy making. There is also the added factor of what influences such groups have on the...
There was very little – indeed virtually no press coverage or official investigation into this horrifying fact until 2014: in an article by Jonathan Kennedy entitled: “New evidence of suicide epidemic among India’s ‘marginalised’ farmers” he states: “In 2010, 187,000 Indians killed themselv...
This means that the person with the most complex, unique and marginalised identity has the most authority — the unspoken rule was that someone who has not had the ‘lived experience’ could never understand, and could never have a useful word to say about an issue. Looking up to others ...
Norman Jeffares, of the anthology, Ireland’s Women: Writings Past and Present(Gill and Macmillan, Ireland; Kyle Cathie, UK, 1994; Norton & Norton, US, 1996). She is the author of Irish Women Writers: Marginalised by Whom? (Raven Arts Press, 1988, 1991). With Brendan Kennelly she is...