The Power of 1 Pound
Taking care of a sick child is one of the most challenging experiences that any parent can face and can be both mentally and physically demanding. Beyond handling physical challenges and medical needs, parents have to deal with their child's emotional needs and the impact that a prolonged condition can have on the entire family.
Meet June: She just won £10,000 with the powerLottery
Mrs June Lever* is a 91-year-old pensioner who has been paying £4 every month for 26 years into the powerLottery. After her husband passed away, June continued to pay into the lottery, hoping to get lucky with one of her four lottery numbers.
Are you getting enough sleep?
We all know that we need to try and get our head down for eight hours a night to make sure we’re at our best the next day, but statistics reveal that the average UK adult gets only 6.28 hours of sleep at night.
Can you do more with your fundraising?
As the need for our assistance grows at a high rate from the Electrical Industry and its employees, our overall resources as a Charity are becoming increasingly stretched, and certainly in the last 18 months are failing to keep up with ever growing demands particularly around mental health and bereavement.
Helping to find Elliott's feet
Imagine taking your baby home from hospital for then your child to be being diagnosed with cerebral palsy at the age of nine months. This is the reality that Amy and Dean Angel faced when they took their son, Elliott, for a routine doctor’s check-up. Elliott was diagnosed with spastic diplegic cerebral palsy and instantly their world changed.
The Big Build becomes the big bulldoze
After completing the purchase of the Dickinsons’ new family home earlier this Summer, house renovations have got underway and there is a whole host of companies, individuals and members of the EIC on hand to help the family reach their perfect home.
Addiction treatment and how the EIC can help you
The EIC understands that individuals who have experienced trauma consequently engage in drug and/or alcohol addiction to manage their psychological pain and distress. The addiction is therefore used as a method of coping. The EIC has compiled statistics using cases we have supported over the last year which suggest that 82% of serious addiction sufferers experienced a traumatic event but never sought therapy for it.
Plan for the future: write a will today
Have you ever thought of what will happen to your loved ones if something ever happened to you? For most of you, the answer is probably yes you have, but you may not have thought that it was essential to write a will at this moment in time or always found it difficult to talk about making one.