In the news - May 2013

Manchester Evening News May 2nd 2013

Cheryl Broadfoot and her son Bobby featured in the news again after he obtained his new iPad through the Hearts and Minds mobile phone recycling scheme.  She was also interviewed about the scheme on Radio Manchester on 23rd May - this is a wonderful interview about the benefits of iPads for children with autism, featuring Bobby's first word...

https://soundcloud.com/cheryl-broadfoot/bbc-radio-manchester-interview

Cheryl was also recently appointed Events Manager for Hearts and Minds.

There was also more coverage of the successful campaigns by David Anderson and Toni Harwood, who have both obtained iPads now for their sons.

Ethan Harwood in the Gazette and Herald May 16th 2013

And Ethan also appeared in the Swindon Advertiser too:

http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/10396118.Call_for_old_phones/

An Isle of Wight Mum had a piece in the local paper and has also set up a Facebook page to appeal for phones:

http://onthewight.com/2013/05/01/appeal-for-old-mobile-phones-for-hearts-and-minds/

There was also some coverage of the charity cycle ride in Spain for Hearts and Minds in Messenger Newspapers:

http://www.messengernewspapers.co.uk/news/10438668.Spanish_cycle_ride_for_Messenger_backed_charity/

Celebrity cyclist and Hearts and Minds supporter Keith Duffy also featured the trip on his web-site:

From officialkeithduffy.com

Could an iPad help your child too?

If you live in Britain, simply collect 165 old mobile phones and the Manchester-based charity Hearts and Minds will exchange them for a new iPad.

Details here:

Website: : heartsandmindsphones.co.uk/
Facebook: facebook.com/HeartsAndMindsUK   

In the news - April 2013

Patrick McGrath and Bobby Hughes were the stars of the media coverage for Hearts and Minds during April....

Patrick McGrath, with parents Ian and Sandra, who set up Hearts and Minds, and featured in the Manchester Evening News

The campaign to 'Give Bobby a Voice', aims to collect enough old mobile phones to get an iPad for every child in Bobby's class and featured first in local and regional newspapers and then national press and TV:

 

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/trapped-silence-boy-who-not-2507734

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2303281/The-boy-spoken-THREE-YEARS-Epileptic-Bobby-6-fell-silent-started-suffering-seizures.html

A rough copy of the BBC coverage is here https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10200530957648938&l=4192906280159904095

More families - and at least one school - are running appeals in local papers to request phones:

http://onthewight.com/2013/05/01/appeal-for-old-mobile-phones-for-hearts-and-minds/ 

http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/10396118.Call_for_old_phones/?ref=rss 

http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/Disused-mobiles-mean-Laura/story-18718532-detail/story.html#axzz2ShWPyUHu 

http://www.st-aidans.lancs.sch.uk/sa/latest_news/old_phones_for_ipads 

And one Mum got the chance to thank the readers of her local paper for sending in more than the 185 old phones she needed to get an iPad and case for her daughter...  The extra phones have been passed on to another family.

http://www.newmarketjournal.co.uk/news/latest-news/mum-praises-journal-readers-for-donations-1-4984675

The Hearts and Minds scheme also featured on Netbuddy, a great site for tips in relation to special needs, and also on Pinkoddy's family blog about a family which includes two children on the spectrum:

http://www.netbuddy.org.uk/get-tip/leisure-fun/computersgaming/

http://pinkoddy.co.uk/blog/?p=9867

Could an iPad help your child too?

If you live in Britain, simply collect 165 old mobile phones and the Manchester-based charity Hearts and Minds will exchange them for a new iPad.

Details here:

Website: : heartsandmindsphones.co.uk/
Facebook: facebook.com/HeartsAndMindsUK   

In the news - March 2013

April is the inaugural Autism Bubble Month, supported by Hearts and Minds, but the Bubble Days started in March...

28.03.13 Uxbridge Gazette

Autism Bubble Day is also supported by Autism in Mind:

http://www.pendletoday.co.uk/news/strange-but-true/dad-wants-to-turn-burnley-blue-for-autism-awareness-1-5512139

And Anna Kennedy too:

http://annakennedyonline.com/autism-bubble-day/

Hearts and Minds received great support as always from the Messenger Newspaper:

http://www.messengernewspapers.co.uk/news/10298825.Messenger_backed_charity_helps_launch_schools_project/

Top blogger Emma White published a great article about the mobile phone recycling scheme on her blog The Real Supermum:

http://www.therealsupermumblog.com/2013/03/help-children-with-autism/

Families are also still getting great media coverage to appeal for old phones to add to their collection: this Mum appeared on Anglia TV:

http://www.itv.com/news/anglia/update/2013-03-04/mum-appeals-for-old-mobile-phones-to-help-autistic-son/

A Burnley Dad who obtained an iPad from Hearts and Minds then succeeded in persuaded bosses at Blackpool Tower to turn it blue for Autism Awareness Day!

http://www.pendletoday.co.uk/news/strange-but-true/dad-wants-to-turn-burnley-blue-for-autism-awareness-1-5512139

Could an iPad help your child too?

If you live in Britain, simply collect 165 old mobile phones and the Manchester-based charity Hearts and Minds will exchange them for a new iPad.

Details here:

Website: : heartsandmindsphones.co.uk/
Facebook: facebook.com/HeartsAndMindsUK