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"I was happily-married with three children and a good job. Then my wife died. I just couldn't cope. I sought help from the bottle... Inside a year, I'd lost my job, my house and my kids. I ended up on the streets. Then, one day, I decided enough was enough and went to the Emmaus Community in Cambridge."

When you read the words of a man like John, it's hard to fathom why, until recently, Emmaus had cause to regard itself as one of Britain's best-kept charity secrets.

The moment when TV frontman Patrick Kielty watched 10-year-old Vijay reunited with his family, after two years begging on the railway stations of India's Andhra Pradesh province, is imprinted on millions of hearts across Britain.

It was the happy ending to last year's remarkable Sport Relief film about a problem that sadly, to the Railway Children charity, is anything but extraordinary.

If ever they make a detective series called Taylor & Crutchley, the theme tune will be energetic, the action will be focussed ~ and they'll nearly always get their man.

The staff at Stafford's Katharine House Hospice can probably already picture it, because that's the way it's been since Lisa Taylor became Head of Fund-raising in 2002. And with a purpose.

If the word 'diabetes' looms large in your life, some days must seem like the Malvern Hills and others like the north face of the Eiger. Whichever, it's hard not to gaze ahead and believe that the peak never seems to come closer. Better to take one step at a time, remind yourself how far you've come, and concentrate on what you need to do to reach the summit.

If you've never thought about the disease, you should. To help, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation's website spells the facts out simply and starkly.

Toybox was established in 1992 by Duncan and Jenni Dyason to provide a better life for street children in Guatemala.

Jenni worked in Guatemala for two years meeting children on the streets, making friends and building up enough trust to eventually invite them along to a day-care centre, which is now run by Guatemalans.