Invisible Disabilities Week: What You Can’t See Can Still Hurt
The unifying reality of the experience of living with an invisib is that what you can’t see can still hurt—
often more than people realise.
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Long Covid SOS Team
Oct 102 min read
The Importance of Good Mental Health When Living With Long Covid
Good mental health is more important than ever when living with Long Covid...
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Long Covid SOS Team
Sep 305 min read
Black History Month: We Must Do More Than Acknowledge, We Must Act!
As we enter Black History Month, we honour the rich histories, cultures, and contributions of Black communities and other people of colour.
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Long Covid SOS Team
Sep 163 min read
Pain Awareness Month: Understanding Chronic Pain in the Context of Long Covid
Chronic pain can change any aspect of a person's life, from how they move, think and sleep to how they spend time with loved ones...
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Long Covid SOS Team
Jun 33 min read
The Right to Funded Research:
Including Lived Experience at its Heart. In this the fifth and final instalment of our series unpacking the principles within the Long...
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Long Covid SOS Team
May 283 min read
People with Long Covid Need Vaccine Boosters: Protecting the Vulnerable and Addressing Health Inequalities
The Covid-19 pandemic has left an enduring mark on countless lives across the globe. In England and Scotland alone, over 2 million people ha
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Long Covid SOS Team
May 134 min read
We should not have to self advocate for clean air and care.
In the fourth instalment of our series of Blog Posts unpacking each principle within the Long Covid SOS Bill of Rights, we explore the cruci
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Long Covid SOS Team
May 33 min read
Volunteering taught me how charities like Long Covid SOS provide vital lifelines for their followers
I volunteered as a social media assistant for Long Covid SOS from October 2023 to April 2024. My godmother, also a volunteer for the charity
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Long Covid SOS Team
Apr 163 min read
The Right to Support:
In the third instalment of our series of Blog Posts unpacking each principle within the Long Covid SOS Bill of Rights, we look at the
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Long Covid SOS Team
Apr 43 min read
Navigating the Rocky Road: The Essential Right to a Diagnosis with Long Covid
In the second of our Blog Posts detailing each of the ‘rights’ in our Long Covid ‘Bill of Rights’, this time we focus on the ‘the right...
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Ondine Sherwood
Mar 212 min read
The Importance of Being Believed when you have Long Covid
The sentiment expressed in the first principle of the Long Covid SOS Bill of Rights, "The Right to be Believed," resonates deeply with the
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Long Covid SOS Team
Mar 152 min read
Why create a Long Covid Bill of Rights?
As an advocacy charity, we know so many people with Long Covid are dismissed and feel isolated. We're demanding basic rights for LC people
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Long Covid SOS Team
Mar 143 min read
Reflections, awareness? This is what it means to me.
Long Covid Awareness Day is nearly here. Those of us living with Long Covid, we are aware of it every day. It's within us, almost serpentine
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Long Covid SOS Team
Feb 23 min read
Emma Samms, Long Covid SOS patron, writes about living with an Invisible Illness - Long Covid
Please don’t tell me I’m looking well. Of course, when I’ve prepared for you to see me, I am looking well. As an actress, it’s my job.
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Long Covid SOS Team
Nov 16, 20232 min read
Disability History Month in the UK Long Covid: A New Disability
From November 16th to December 16th, the UK celebrates Disability History Month (UKDHM), providing a platform to explore the historical,...
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Long Covid SOS Team
Nov 1, 20232 min read
Where would you be if you could?
I Would be Here If I Could... Is an ambitious and disruptive art project which will be traveling
around the UK next year. Created by Alison
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Long Covid SOS Team
Jun 8, 20232 min read
The Cost of Friendship Can be Worth its Weight in Gold.
Some say that you really find out who your friends are when you become chronically ill. It’s true to some extent but friendship is still a
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Long Covid SOS Team
May 31, 20233 min read
We need Inclusive Advocacy for LGBTQ+ People Living with Long Covid and other Chronic Conditions.
Throughout Pride Month we are highlighting the inclusive advocacy needed for LGBTQ+ people living with Long COVID & other chronic condions
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Long Covid SOS Team
May 16, 20233 min read
Nurturing Mental Health: A Vital Journey for Those Living with Chronic Conditions
Throughout Mental Health Awareness week we will being focusing on Long Covid Wellbeing.
Living with a chronic condition such as Long Covid
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Long Covid SOS Team
Apr 20, 20233 min read
Joe is running the London Marathon to support Long Covid SOS - here is his story
I’m Joe and I’m running the London Marathon on 23rd April this year and raising money for Long Covid SOS. I’m 30 years old and live in Manch
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