You know I love the BBC & celebrate all the things we pay our licence fee for . But yesterday whilst 100K peaceful people marched to demonstrate their love for life all I could find on BBC News (UK) was a selfie of the gas-guzzling Taylor Swift . Im sorry but thats a disgrace

Feeling a bit nauseous watching PM and likely future PM showing how much they both hate asylum seekers and want to cut benefits for our most vulnerable citizens. Can we please have a positive and compassionate vision for the future? #Election2024 BBC News (UK) Mishal Husain

Love this. So many illnesses and so much of the cost on health services are preventable. The VCSE sector plays a crucial role in building community resilience and preventing needs from escalating. Charities need investment to achieve this!

🎉🌳 Big congratulations to our amazing Parks Team for securing 9 Green Flag Awards for 2024! 🌟 Special shoutout to Garon Park CIC and TrustLinks for their awards too! 🏅 Trust Links Charity The Well Being at Garon Park GreenFlagAward @LabourLydia Full details: orlo.uk/Az9D0

Some distressing scenes in my city of Southend last night. I drove around in the evening to see the issues. There are some active crime scenes but the disorder had ceased. Multiple arrests and some critically injured people. Thank you to the emergency services for the speedy

Drawing: Possible causes of your problems. I've been appalled at the scenes we've witnessed over the last few days. It's utterly unacceptable that people should have to live in fear because of the colour of their skin. [Polite comments only, please.]

There's still time to book onto one of our Growing Together Open Days in Westcliff, Basildon, Rochford, Shoeburyness, Thundersley and Cressing Temple! See our poster for more details and book your space by visiting: trustlinks.org/growing-togeth… #therapeuticgardening

Maybe we should run this as a 3 minute TV ad. Wadda da ya think?

This is such a wonderful thing that our local Southend MP is doing. Please support it if you are able to.

Three days to go! Looking forward to the jump this Friday. It's an incredibly important event, to commemorate the Battle of Arnhem, which I'm proud to be involved in.

Would much appreciate if people like/share this thread so the likes of Louise Haigh may see it. There were multiple people caught out by this on *literally* just my carriage on that day. TOCs must do better; why would anyone get the train if this is how they will treat you?

Alongside our video, we have co-produced three infographics to providing further information on therapeutic horticulture. The first of these infographics aims to encourage individuals to consider trying therapeutic horticulture. This is available via: bit.ly/4ddyYxR

Great news for Shoeburyness. A partnership between Trust Links Charity and East Beach Residents’Association means youth project can reopen. echo-news.co.uk/news/24691048.…

More than 1,100 charities and voluntary organisations have signed our letter to the chancellor in the last few hours alone. The scale of this issue cannot be understated, and the sector is coming together with a single voice to call for action. Join us by signing today👇

Things have just got a lot more difficult . Here’s what I think . I had no control over what just happened . None . But I do have control over how I will react to it . And I am not going to give up on the beautiful and the good , the grip on my dreams just got tighter .

Yesterday I visited Trust Links Charity at their Southend site and met with their CEO Matt King and Head of Fundraising Nicky Evans. They do such wonderful work from this site including a toddler group on Friday, gardening, woodwork, cookery and counselling, all to support people

I’m old enough to remember Boris Johnson telling businesses Brexit paperwork could go in a bin. Now they need a warehouse to store it in

A song we adapted from "Iris" (Goo Goo Dolls) about seeing and acknowledging what's happening now, in Gaza.