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As part of the Mental Health Awareness Week 2018, mental health charity - Mind in Harrow, will be offering people free workshops to help cope with stress in the workplace. Workshops under the 'Head for Work' project will help people to create working environments that are mentally healthy. The theme of the awareness campaign is on stress and how to cope when under pressure. Anyone experiencing stress for a... Read More»

Fleet Source, one of the leading providers of training and auditing services working for road transport industry, is again offering a free networking workshop. Following its first Terrorism Risk and Incident Prevention (TRIP) seminar, and UK's first, held free earlier in the year, the company is again extending its invitation to fleet operators to attend its second workshop, at The Holiday Inn in Watford, on 10th May (Thursday). The first seminar... Read More»

In an effort to attract tourists from overseas, a new campaign has been started to market overseas the English National Park Experience. VisitEngland, the government agency for tourism, is funding National Park authorities, including Yorkshire Dales, with this objective. The agency is looking to develop 'immersive' visitor experiences that are new and easily bookable by foreign tourists. The key target markets include Australia and Germany. Two workshops focused on... Read More»

The annual Record Store Day will fill the streets with music this Saturday, as the record store Diverse Vinyl in Newport also celebrates what is to be the biggest edition of this festival, along with a record number of stores across the UK. They will be celebrating together all things vinyl, putting up a range of free events and live in-store entertainment. On 21 April , this Saturday, over 200... Read More»

Scotland’s next big multi-sport event is the inaugural European Championship at Glasgow. It will be held from 2nd to 12th August. The first ever Glasgow 2018 European Championship will be a 11-day celebration, attracting athletes from gymnastics, golf, cycling, rowing, aquatics and triathlon, to various venues, not only in Glasgow, but across Scotland. Some of the highlights are below. The official mascot for the sporting event is Bonnie, the seal pup.... Read More»

An open sexual health workshop for young people will be held in Tooting. The workshop on 17 May, (Thursday) is open for all teenagers, 14 to 16 years old, from 4:30pm to 6pm. It will be hosted at the Tooting Hub, on Beechcroft Road, in Tooting (Wadsworth borough). The free workshop is aimed at encouraging young people to gain a better understanding and knowledge about sexual health and about... Read More»

The annual national awareness campaign, Dying Matters week, has been announced by Royal Trinity Hospice. The programme of free events aims to open up the national conversation this year, which is to talk about dying death and bereavement. The hospice will mark the week with 3 events that aim to provoke the community into conversation and engage in discussions. They also get to know about their local hospice, which provides... Read More»

A free song-writing workshop will be hosted at Shrewbury, under the Room for All programme, as part of the Shrewsbury Folk, on 20th May (Sunday). Festival. Greg Russell, the award-winning musician will run it, aimed to get more young people involved in traditional music. He won in 2013, the Young Folk Award, of BBC Radio-2, and with Ciaran Algar, the Horizon Award too. The 5-hour workshop session in Belmont,... Read More»

A free event in Hyde Park, Yon HaShoah, will mark the 75th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, in the weekend. On this Sunday, 15th April, hundreds are set to gather for Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day in London. The event will feature Laura Pradelska, actress in Game of Thrones, who will recall stories of her 4 grandparents, all of whom survived the Holocaust. This is also the date of... Read More»

The Crossway festival is a major cross-cultural literary festival, running this week in Glasgow's Merchant City. The major new festival will start on 9 April, to celebrate Irish and Scottish culture, featuring 24 events across the 6 days up to 15 April (Sunday). Venues across the city will host Scots, Scottish Gaelic, Irish and English events in the festival, like a reading each afternoon, with another one following in... Read More»

'Discover Wimbledon' is a month-long event to encourage more visitors to Wimbledon. The event that started on Easter Sunday, will host over 140 events and promotions and includes a variety of activities. Find here family fun days, antique evaluations at West Borough's George Kinder, free pilates sessions, free testing at Organic Hair Cafe, Wimborne Wellness Day, Fudge & Candy Shack's sweet tombola, tours and walks by Ghosts, Myths &... Read More»

Budding talents can be helped to kick-start a career in the arts, thanks to a full-time training course in Liverpool. The free scheme for aspiring performers and makers, is calling for applicants for the June 2018 programme. The scheme to develop artists is being run by Hope Street Ltd, as it celebrates its 30th anniversary. The ten-week intensive vocational programme called ADAPT will give participants an opportunity work alongside... Read More»