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Platform for Life Highly Commended in Cheshire Community Foundation President's Award

Platform for Life’s work with families living in Lache and struggling with poverty and poor mental health was recognised today. Cheshire Community Foundation held their President’s Awards and we were ‘Highly Commended’ in the Impact category. Whilst we don’t do what we do to win awards, we’re delighted to have been recognised with this award and to receive it together with a cheque for £1200 towards our running costs from the High Sheriff of Cheshire Mark Mitchell DL and his wife Anita Mitchell.

Welcome to our new Patron David Briggs

We’re delighted to introduce David Briggs as Platform for Life’s new Patron. David has supported and championed our charity from its earliest days and shares our commitment to helping low income families address poor mental health and stop it becoming a life long disability.

“The biggest issue in Cheshire today is mental illness and I have been very impressed with the work which Platform for Life does to help those with mental challenges in their life. It would be impossible to exaggerate the importance of their work which for many of their clients is life changing. I much look forward to helping this special charity in any way that I can.”

Platform for Life receives game changing grant from Westminster Foundation

Just in time for Christmas, Platform for Life heard the wonderful news that we were to be awarded a major grant by the Westminster Foundation. This not only secures our existing work but opens up significant opportunities for further expansion of our counselling/play therapy service.

This important funding helps Platform for Life continue our work in Lache and Blacon, providing free of charge and locally accessible counselling and play therapy sessions to families (parents, children and young people) living in poverty and struggling with poor mental health. Our focus is on strengthening family relationships and creating more stable and nurturing environments for children. We want to stop the cycle of poor mental health being passed down from one generation to the next and through earlier intervention, to prevent poor mental health becoming a life-long disability.

International Day for the Eradication of Poverty 17th October 2019

Today marks the 27th anniversary of the declaration by the General Assembly of the United Nations making 17th October International Day for the Eradication of Poverty . Poverty isn’t solely an economic issue and encompasses both a lack of income and the basic capabilities to live in dignity. It’s also not confined to countries we consider’ third world’. We live in one of the wealthiest countries in the world and yet the number of children living in poverty has been steadily increasing in recent years.

Children’s Commissioner publishes “Manifesto for children”

The Children’s Commissioner Anne Longfield recently published a much needed ‘Manifesto for Children’ which calls on political parties to include a six-point plan in their election manifestos to transform the life chances for disadvantaged children and to help all of England’s 12 million children to thrive. This is targeted at all politicians and not one specific political party.