Mum of two, Rebecca Grandison’s son Wilf’s has severe asthma, which controls every aspect of his life. She says it’s hard for other parents to understand the challenges their family face. Here she tells us how connecting with other parents in our support group has been really helpful for her.

Living with a long-term lung condition can affect many aspects of your life. You’ll have physical symptoms, like getting out of breath and feeling tired. Lung conditions can also affect your mood, how you feel, and your ability to cope with daily life.

This World Mental Health Day, we’ve pulled together some tips to help you to look after your mental health right now.

Lisa Hall, 40, from Newport in Wales, was diagnosed with asthma shortly after giving birth to her son. She believes the hormonal changes following pregnancy and birth were responsible for her getting asthma and is campaigning for more research into this.

Did you know that playing the harmonica can help you manage your breathlessness and learn great breathing techniques? In this blog, Adam, a Physiotherapy Lecturer at Brunel University London, explains his research alongside Chris, a lung health practitioner, into the benefits of harmonicas and chats about Asthma + Lung UK’s Harmonica For Lung Health sessions.

Poppy, 30, from Stratford-Upon-Avon, spent every month fearing she would end up in hospital as her hormones had such a terrible effect on her asthma. Here she shares her story.

We believe everyone has the right to breathe clean air, so we’ve been campaigning for years to tackle air pollution. But if you don’t drive a car, what are the alternative ways to travel? Sandra Green is a campaigner for Car-Free Birmingham at Possible. Here she shares seven tips on how to try out going car-free – and ensuring you have adventures along the way.

Have you ever wondered if asthma runs in families? This month’s myth busting looks at if asthma runs in families, and if you can get asthma without anyone in your family having it.

It’s been three long years, but it’s finally back in person – the European Respiratory Society Congress (ERS), taking place this September. Offering people from across the world the chance to come together to discuss and plan new research ideas that could transform the way lung diseases are diagnosed and treated in the future

Recently, Asthma + Lung UK launched our new Innovator’s Network with the first in our new series of events for innovators, researchers and healthcare professionals. Naomi from our Research team tells us about this first event, what the key takeaways were and our hopes for the network.

Krisnah Poinasamy, Head of Research and Innovation Advocacy at Asthma and Lung UK, shares two joint A+LUK publications and discusses their potential implications for respiratory research and innovation.

Sarah Woolnough, our CEO, sets out what we know about the autumn COVID booster so far, the changes we want to see and what we’ll be doing about it in the coming months.

Our Head of Devolved Nations, Joseph, takes us through the new Clean Air Bill and changes recently made in Wales that show progress towards clean air.

Paul has asthma and often struggles with symptoms when the seasons change. Here he talks about how he began cycling to help control his breathing and ended up climbing to Everest base camp!

This month, we are busting the myth around breathlessness during physical activity being bad for your lungs.

Our supporter Becky Wood shared this moving poem that her dad Nigel wrote just days before he passed away from IPF in 2021.

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Jess from our Health advice team goes through the top 4 targets for all our health advice. She explains how we make sure our supporters are at the heart of everything we do and part of our fight to help everyone with a lung condition live well and breathe freely.

Dave struggled to play football when he was a child – now he cycles 100 miles a week. In this blog, he tells us his story about how he found exercise that works for his lung condition.

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The fantastic pupils at Commonswood Primary School have been learning all about clean air this year and how important it is for safe breathing and keeping our lungs healthy. In this blog, Natasha from our Community Fundraising team explains how the school have been getting involved with our work.