Eating Disorders Archives

Surviving eating disorders at Christmas for sufferers and supporters

December 14, 2021 by Di Archer

By Jean Hart – co-founder of tastelife. For anyone suffering from an eating disorder, the thought of Christmas does not conjure up feelings of delightful anticipation, far from it. Thoughts about the Christmas meal itself, and having to sit round...

The Big Christmas Challenge 2021 is live!

November 30, 2021 by Di Archer

Let this be our most generous Christmas yet It’s that time of year, some call it the most wonderful time but it is especially the most wonderful time for us here at tastelife as it is our once-a-year Big Give week! Our link is live and we...

The Big Give Christmas Challenge 2021 is coming up!

October 19, 2021 by Di Archer

Another year…another Big Give Christmas Challenge! 2021 is one more year that tastelife is taking part in the Big Give Christmas Challenge, the UK’s largest match funding campaign. We are running again this year 30th November – 6th...

A guide to easing yourself out of lockdown

September 15, 2021 by Di Archer

Anxiety flourishes in the face of uncertainty. Fuelled by the ever changing environment COVID has thrown us into this past year, we face a final challenge. Returning to before. For some of us the ‘double vaccine’ status we hold fills us with...

EDAW 2021

March 2, 2021 by Di Archer

Eating Disorder Awareness Week 2021 It’s eating disorder awareness week 2021! At tastelife we spend day to day and week to week helping people who struggle with eating disorders. For us, every week is EDAW but we especially want to use this...

tastelife mentioned in House of Lords debate

February 7, 2020 by Mary

This week we have been thrilled to have had our first mention in Parliament! A debate on Tuesday 4th February raised by Baroness Kate Parminter brought to light the painful discrepancy between the scale of care needed for those with eating...

Premier Love Britain and Ireland Awards

October 10, 2019 by Bob Dudley

What an evening! tastelife wins Love Britain and Ireland Award Premier awarded tastelife the Inclusion Award for ‘an outstanding project supporting and serving people with additional needs’ within the community – Di, Mary and...

tastelife Network Coordinator

August 27, 2019 by Bob Dudley

tastelife are looking for a Network Coordinator to help develop our charity. Our Network Coordinator will enable the spread of the community course across the UK by creating a regional structure of community course leaders, building on and...

tastelife Youth Track about to launch!

May 14, 2019 by Bob Dudley

And just like that, we’re in May! The past months have seen the Youth Track progress in leaps and bounds; a real-life resource now exists, with an initial pilot in five different schools across the country. It’s amazing to see that what once...

Jean and Di’s radio interview

February 25, 2019 by Bob Dudley

Jean and Di had the pleasure of speaking about tastelife on UCB radio. You can listen to the interview in full here. Photo by Aitor Romero on Unsplash

tastelife at Christmas

December 19, 2018 by Bob Dudley

The tastelife team wish all our lovely supporters, volunteers and friends a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. tastelifeuk has had such an encouraging 12 months and we couldn’t have done it without you! We’re looking forward to...

Prime Minster’s Points of Light Award

November 22, 2018 by Bob Dudley

It is with great pleasure that we can announce Jean and Di have been awarded the Points of Light Award by Prime Minister, Theresa May. The Prime Minister’s daily Points of Light award recognises outstanding individual volunteers –...