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Shopping, schools and summits

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From Newark to Nottingham and beyond this Sunday when guests Louise Osborne, Charlotte Smith and Jackie Wilson join the Girls Around Town in the studio…

If you still have gifts and goodies to buy for Christmas – or if you haven’t even started on that list yet! – Louise and Charlotte will be sharing details of an event in Newark that just might help you out.

Tune in or listen online from 10am, when they’ll be talking to June about the Christmas Fayre the Friends of Newark Academy will be holding at the school from 6pm to 9pm on Friday 17 November.

With around 30 stalls selling jewellery, crafts and other festive treats, there’ll be plenty of things to try and buy. And as FONA will be using proceeds raised at the event to enhance learning and support extracurricular activities for the Academy’s pupils, you’ll be supporting a local good cause too as you shop…

After 11am, it’s Tina’s turn at the microphone when Jackie makes a return visit to the show with news  of some of the World Health Innovation Summit‘s plans for 2018.

First on the agenda is a WHISTalks event focused on the environment, taking place at Carriages Café from 12 noon to 4pm on Saturday 27 January. Open to anyone interested in discussing the subject, it’s an opportunity to find out how to help make a difference by collaborating, sharing ideas and knowledge and looking at innovative ways forward.

Then on Saturday 12 May, Nottingham Market Square will play host to the city’s first WHIS Summit. Part of Mental Health Awareness Week, the Summit will include a mass meditation together with talks, music, workshops and stalls and other activities all on offer during the day.

With one of the world’s first WHISKids Schools scheduled to open in Nottingham next September, Jackie will also be explaining how this new model of schooling aims to provide students and their families with access to an alternative form of education based on best international educational practice.

An all-round healing experience

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How time flies when you’re having fun! Hard to believe it’s been almost exactly a year since Sunita Passi joined the Girls Around Town to talk about Ayurveda and the launch of her new Neem range…

She’ll be back in the studio again this weekend, talking about the role of meditation in promoting mental health and spreading the word about ThinKNotts, an event taking place in Nottingham on Saturday 13 May.

Organised by Unplugged Space, a group of holistic therapists Sunita helped to create, its aim is to bring together over 1,000 people for a mass meditation in the city centre’s Old Market Square. With the chance to try yoga (including laughter yoga), sample holistic treatments and even take a dip in a sound bath also on offer during the day, it’s sure to be an all-round healing experience for everyone taking part.

Tune in or listen online between 10am and 12 noon on Sunday to find out more about ThinKnotts – and, with Homeopathy Awareness Week running from Tuesday 11 to Sunday 16 April, to hear Fiona explaining why, despite being 200 years old, homeopathy is still ahead of its time.

She’ll have details too of Just One Drop, a new film about to be released in the UK which sets out to help more people understand what homeopathy can achieve.

Taking a leaf out of Sunita’s book…

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neem_leavesIf you’re wondering what possible connection there could be between an Indian ‘wonder leaf’ and being Fabulous After 40, you need to be listening to next Sunday’s show…

Join the Girls Around Town when they meet Sunita Passi to learn how she not only found her own new kind of fabulous but is now helping others to do the same.

After a career as a business journalist interviewing heads of government, business and finance in different countries across the world, Sunita took time out to travel to Kerala where she trained in Ayurveda.

Returning to the UK in 2002, she set about developing a training programme for therapists in Ayurvedic massage techniques, which she launched in 2005. A range of Tri-Dosha products followed and three years ago she qualified as a meditation teacher, receiving her certificate dated on her 40th birthday.

I hope my story inspires other women entrepreneurs who look to make a difference in our incredible world

Fast forward to March 2016 and here’s where that ‘wonder leaf’ comes in – in her biggest business venture yet, Sunita is now on the brink of introducing a new diffusion range based on the Indian herb Neem,  which will be on sale across the UK soon…

Tune in or listen online between 10am and 12 noon on Sunday to find out more about Ayurveda, Sunita’s amazing journey and of course just what it is that makes that Indian leaf so wonderful!