Every year, “Blue Monday” is talked about as the day when January feels at its heaviest - the cold weather, financial pressures after Christmas, and the long wait for spring. Whether or not there’s any science behind the idea*, many people do find this time of year particularly hard. For a lot of us, winter can heighten feelings of loneliness, isolation and disconnection.  At the Vassall Centre and our Community Hubs, we see first-hand how these feelings don’t just appear on

Celebrating International Day of Persons with Disabilities   When you visit the Vassall Centre (or the Vassall Community Hub within it), you will notice a change that has taken place over the past two years. Gone are the quiet corridors and siloed offices; the Centre is now a hubbub of energy, people from different organisations are more likely to be greeting each other and working together, and the corridors throng with people from all walks of life. If you sit in the café,