Jack Radford, a year 11 student at Gartree High School in Oadby, raised over £3,000 when he took on a 24-hour drumathon sponsored challenge to fundraise for the Lamp mental health charity for the second year running. In 2022, Jack raised over £1,300 for Lamp with a 12-hour drumathon and went on to win the […]
On Thursday 15th June, Lamp hosted another successful ‘Time to Talk’ charity dinner, at Winstanley House, which raised a fantastic £1580. Images of the the event, which were taken by Pete Martin Photography, are now available to view here. We would like to extend our thanks to the insightful speakers who shared their stories and […]
The theme for this year’s Lamp 5K campaign in May was ‘Climbing Mountains for Mental Health’. Lamp Chief Executive, Richard Kotulecki is taking this (many more than) one step further by taking on the Yorkshire Three Peaks challenge in September to raise funds for the charity. The Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge is a 24-mile (38.6km) […]
Lamp has welcomed the support of six more local organisations who will each sponsor a hole at the charity’s golf day, taking place on Wednesday 14 June 2023. The new sponsors are: Pete Martin Photography, Impact Retail, CBA Insolvency, Premier Logistics Group, mypayrollbureau and GH Watts. They join Cross Productions – our headline sponsor, Payments […]
Many people across Leicester and Leicestershire got involved in this year’s Mental Health Awareness Week that took place from 15-21 May. A local charity marked the week by running its annual fundraising and awareness campaign. Now its third year, the Lamp 5k campaign was run by staff and volunteers from Lamp, the Leicester-based mental health […]
Lamp, the mental health advocacy charity, has appointed Jane Hastings as its new Senior Community Advocate. She joins Lamp from her previous role at Moneywise Plus and will extend the charity’s advocates team, helping to support clients with mental health-related services provided through primary care such as GPs and NHS psychiatry departments. Jane has previously […]
Come and join us for a charity bhangra class, learn some classic moves and raise funds for Lamp. It will be hosted by Leicester Bhangra Classes with all ticket costs going to support mental health. 7-8pm on Thursday 22 June 2023 The Ann Oliver Stage School, Garden Street, Leicester LE1 3UA Tickets are £10 each. […]
Deyal Singh, a Leicester-based estate agent, is taking on a remarkable challenge to run 100km in just 24 hours to raise £2,000 for charity. Deyal will start a number of separate runs at 6am on 23 June 2023 to total 100km. He is looking for sponsorship for the challenge and all monies raised will go […]
Marketing agency, Cross Productions has been announced as the headline sponsor for a new charity golf day, in support of Leicester-based mental health advocacy charity, Lamp. The event will be held on 14 June 2023 at Lingdale Golf Course in Leicestershire and will be hosted by local recruitment agency, Teamwork Partnership. Starting with coffee and […]
We hear from an autistic service user within ethnic minority and hard-to-reach community of Leicester, Leicestershire & Rutland I am relatively a new service user to Lamp, but needed support in using an Independent Community Health Advocacy service and this is where Lamp has helped massively. I wanted to access free health advocacy in my […]
