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  • Loneliness Awareness Week

    Loneliness Awareness Week

    18 June 2021

    This year the Marmalade Trust is encouraging people to see loneliness as an experience, not a condition that defines us. By building a greater awareness and acceptance of loneliness, we can help ourselves and others to manage the feeling.The trust offers a number of resources including a guide to Loneliness and a three step approach to taking action that could help you or anyone you know who’s lonely.

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  • Deaf Awareness Week - 4 - 10th May 2020

    Deaf Awareness Week - 4 - 10th May 2020

    04 May 2020

    Deaf Awareness Week aims to promote the positive aspects of deafness, promote social inclusion and raise awareness of the huge range of local organisations that support deaf people and their family and friends.2020’s theme is acquired deafness.To help you to better support deaf people, we have produced some helpful posters to encourage you to raise awareness and play an active role in supporting and including deaf people in whatever you do.

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  • 'It's SSKIN' If You Get A Pressure Ulcer

    'It's SSKIN' If You Get A Pressure Ulcer

    18 December 2019

    A group of community NHS staff have created and performed an adapted version of the hit Pet Shop Boys song ‘It’s a Sin’ to raise awareness of pressure ulcer prevention. Community staff from Sheffield Teaching Hospitals (STH) recorded their version of the song, retitled as ‘It’s SSKIN’, at studios in the city centre. It has already had more than 5,000 views on YouTube.

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  • Advocacy Awareness Week

    Advocacy Awareness Week

    28 October 2019

    It’s Advocacy Awareness Week ( 28 Oct – 1 November ) and this year’s theme is demonstrating the impact of advocacy. That’s why we’ve chosen to wait until now to publish our recent annual report for our Advocacy and Information Service. We’re doing our best on social media this week to raise awareness of the importance of advocacy, join in the conversation and celebrate all things advocacy.

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  • Autism Acceptance Course

    08 November 2018

    Are you autistic, or do you have friends and family members who are and want to find out more about problems you or they may encounter and how to work towards solving them? Join David Panther at his’Autism Acceptance’course on 14th & 18th November which Sheffield Autistic Society has described as “giving a true insight into the lived experience of an autistic person and being a valuable illustration of why Autism Awareness in society is not enough”.

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