Becoming an anti-racist: A personal perspective

Big Life is on a journey to becoming an anti-racist organisation. Roli Barker, one of our directors, shares her personal perspective.

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Why is electroconvulsive therapy still so widely practiced?

We should all be concerned about the use of ECT on particular groups in society, and the adverse effects it can cause to people’s lives

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People not Problems – are services working for people with autism?

Big Life's Medical Director, Louise Grant, explains that for a lot of people with autism, life is what happens while they are waiting for a service.

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Sewell Reports: Big Life Responds

The Sewell Report is an insult to every ethnic minority in the country, and to those people, communities and organisations making genuine efforts to combat institutional racism.

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Big Life Resolutions 2021!

Big Life CEO, Fay Selvan, reflects on the challenges the group faced in 2020, and makes some resolutions for the year ahead.

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Let’s ditch the good old days

Big Life CEO, Fay Selvan, reflects on the group's approach to the Coronavirus pandemic, and the positive future she hopes to see.

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I hope you remember me… a poem dedicated to BAME frontline workers.  

I hope you remember we stood side by side on the frontline, fighting a common enemy. I hope you remember we stood shoulder to shoulder in the wa...

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Solidarity – and taking action

Fay Selvan, Big Life CEO, on the events in America this week, and the importance of not just standing in solidarity, but taking action.

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The Big Life Business Plan 2020-25

The Big Life group is proud to present its new, five-year, business plan for 2020-25.

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A small matter of hope?

Fay Selvan, Big Life CEO Soon after New Year, I heard Fraser Nelson (Editor of the Spectator)

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Whose Choice? The changing face of mental health services

by Nicky Lidbetter, Big Life Director of Mental Health. Those of us that have been knocking around the mental health world fo...

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What price Sanctuary?

Big Life’s charity, Self Help, has been delivering mental health services since 1995, when we ran our first peer-led self-help group for people suffering from anxiety and depression.

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Reflecting the diverse communities we work in through BAME staff development

Looking back 18 months, I think I can admit to being a bit smug. We have always made local recruitment part of what we do. Reflecting the diverse c...

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Child poverty – it’s time to be outraged

When I spoke at an event last week on child poverty, one of the audience asked – why aren’t we outraged? Well, I am outraged.

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No more important time to break down barriers

In the face of adversity, there has never been a more important time to break down barriers and to build stronger communities.

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