So I did it! I faced my fear: my knees had been knocking, my heart had been pounded and my stomach was thinking about making my breakfast re-appear, however Last weekend, after sitting in hubby’s hypno chair for a couple of hours, I was ready to face my fear of heights. Dressed as Super-woman (naturally) we …
Was it a bird? Was it a plane ? Nope the fat fairy flew Read More »
Cudeca Hospice & Knitted Knockers of Spain Association Benalmádena, 31 July 2020 On 30th July, the Knitted Knockers of Spain association visited the Palliative Care Centre of Cudeca Hospice to donate their breast prostheses, hand-woven by their volunteers. The visit was attended by the President of the Knitted Knockers association, Maria Bailey and …
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TWO ORGANISERS – TEN WOMEN – TWENTY DAYS – EIGHT TONS OF FOOD At the beginning of June during a brainstorming session, we came up with the idea of running a Costa Women Online Pop Up Shop. How difficult can it be we thought? Little did we know, the monster we took on! With …
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Who AM I… Were the words I, Barbara Franken heard from within at the age of 17. It was an inner passion to go out in the world, to explore and discover Who I AM and What Life is All About! I left my birth home in England to travel Europe, what was to be …
Did you know that 1.5 million people per year are provided with basic foods by food banks in Spain? Sadly, these vulnerable people are unable to put food on their tables and without the important work of the national network of food banks they would go hungry. Spain’s Federation of Food Banks is called FESBAL. …
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This week, I talked to Luisa Machen, one of the AECC Pink Ladies team, a new department run by foreign volunteers of the Spanish Association Against Cancer (AECC – Asociación Española Contra el Cancer). The Association can help at whatever point you are at in your cancer diagnosis, treatment or recovery. You may feel you want …
For many families they are unable to take their children on a day out to places such as Terra Mitica and to build memories together that will last a lifetime. HELP Vega Baja decided that they would step in and on Wednesday 4thSeptember, volunteers from the charity were up early and ready to take …
This week we talk to Michele who is President HELP VEGA BAJA a charity registered with the Valencian Authority as a Volunteer Organisation. We chat about volunteering in Spain, loneliness and connections. Hello Michele! How did you end up living in Spain and where are you based? My husband Tony and I decided …
I am so excited to announce that I will be representing my home county of South Yorkshire next year in the Galaxy Pagent UK. As part of this I am raising money for the charity The Christie. This charity funds cancer information centre, support for families and much much more. I am hoping to raise …
Once again Dave and Mitch Bull are off on another adventure raising awareness and funds for charity. Last year the father and son team headed off on a mammoth 6500km journey around the perimeter of Spain and in 2015 they rowed two kayaks 52km down the River Segura from Murcia to Guardamar on the …
