Listen To Your Elders! Advice For A New Generation
Treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself, never start smoking, always use your right to vote and look after your teeth – these canny pearls of wisdom are…
Emily Cleary
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Fundraising & Furniture: SpotDeco In The Spotlight
Louise Downing is 30 and lives in Clapham with her boyfriend. She is the founder of homeware and furniture e-commerce site and social enterprise, Spotdeco. In July she launched ‘Charity…
Dahl-icious Indulgence At Charlie And The Chesterfield
Did you know that Roald Dahl used to be a spy? And also a fighter pilot, inventor and historian of chocolate? Well it’s true! And this September it will be…
Five Minutes With…. The ‘Buddy Box’ Creator
Jayne Hardy is the founder and CEO of depression support group Blurt Foundation, and the creator of self-care subscription service BuddyBox. Having suffered severe depression herself, Jayne now helps thousands…
A Third Of Mums Suffer Pool Panic
One in three mums suffer ‘pool panic’ at the thought of donning a bikini and getting into the water with their kids, it emerged yesterday. A detailed study found a large…
Shoots, Tweets, Then Leaves!
When you take yourself away on travels do you really immerse yourself in local culture and delve into every detail of local life, or is it a more Shoots, Tweets…
The Spotlight’s On Seven Dials This Saturday!
Spotlight returns to London’s distinctive shopping and dining destination, Seven Dials, this Saturday (13th August) with a free one-day music, comedy and arts festival. From 12-7pm the area will be transformed…
Holidays By Numbers: What We Really Do While We’re Away
The average Briton consumes 56 alcoholic drinks, has four major bust-ups, spends 35 hours online – and moans about being “too hot” eight times on an average fortnight holiday abroad, a new survey…
Dining At The Wallace Collection
Wearing sunglasses inside is one of those things I swore I would never do. Reserved for the uber-famous or uber-idiotic, it’s a habit I do not admire. But as I sat sipping a…
Be Happier At Work
The ideal workplace is a positive, stimulating environment which contributes to the happiness of the workforce, and it seems obvious that it is important for any company to have happy…
