With the Coronavirus forcing us to self-isolate, we thought we’d put together some links, hints and tips to help keep you physically and mentally active at home.

We’ve put together what we think is a list of great ideas for activities people can do at home with their family or housemates, and raise funds for Colostomy UK as well.

From Dance off’s to Jenga, or sponsored head shaves there’s bound to be something that you can do.

With the developing situation around Covid-19 and as a health and wellbeing charity, Colostomy UK wants to ensure that it puts in place responsible measures to protect our team (volunteers and office team) and, of course, the people we support. With this in mind, Colostomy UK’s board of trustees have decided to postpone all of our events and cancel our attendance at open days until the end of April.

The latest edition of our award winning magazine Tidings is now available to download.

All your usual favourites are included like ‘Irrigation and You’, ‘Dear Nurse’, all the latest news from the Colostomy UK team, our projects and campaigns, plus real life stories and much more.

Nearly three quarters of people said that when they felt lonely, they didn’t tell anyone despite most having someone they could count on.
This Fittleworth sponsored post talks about their new campaign to tackle loneliness.

We’re supporting the Department for Transport’s new campaign, ‘it’s everyone’s journey’. The research behind the campaign shows that our unconscious behaviours can have an impact on disabled passengers. So we’re encouraging everyone to make small changesto their behaviour when travelling