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Oct 28, 2021, 5:47 PM

Refusing to be complacent allows us to survive and thrive

Norwood carer and service user. (C) Blake Ezra Photography Ltd. 2021

The past 19 months of the Covid pandemic have seen issues of mental health, anxiety and isolation increasingly pervade our discourse, as the effects of the pandemic has had a disproportionate impact on some of the most vulnerable members of society. For people with learning...

Jun 1, 2021, 1:36 PM

It’s shocking our charity was hacked by people with an antisemitic agenda

Screenshot of Norwood's Instagram after it was hacked by pro-Palestine activists

A little more than two weeks ago, I wrote to all the staff in our organisation to allay any anxiety they may have been feeling as a result of reports of increased antisemitic activity and hate crimes in some areas of North London where our...

May 24, 2016, 4:39 PM

Forty years helping those with learning disabilities live as equals

When, on the long Yom Kippur of 5755, my eldest daughter Talya was born having contracted a Group B meningitis and septicaemia, she rallied against all odds and pulled through with the help of medical intervention, life support and Hashem’s blessing. She did, however, suffer...

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Dr Beverley Jacobson is the Chief Executive of Norwood