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A NOTE FROM OUR EDITOR INSIDE YOUR Welcome to our first editions of 2021! I’m sure we’re all glad to see the back of 2020 and hopefully the Covid-19 MAGAZINE... vaccine will ensure we get back to a normal way of life ‘BE A LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS’ 4 sooner rather than later. A very happy New Year to all! IN 2021 Please take the time to view our online Tide Collection A live online event to mark Holocaust Extra which features all sorts of news and information not Memorial Day in the printed editions. Visit: Tide Collection Extra | Leiston Press for local news on our Environment, the Arts, East HALESWORTH’S WAR HEROES 5 Louise Suffolk Council, Local Charities, Award winning Businesses, A fitting tribute compiled by Alan Gissing Entertainment & Leisure, Health & Wellbeing and help and Clapson for Halesworth Museum support for our communities. A TOUCH OF THE FUNNIES 7 I have a feeling the coming year will be full of events and activities for us all to Something to cheer us up from Bryan enjoy, and we will probably appreciate them so much more now, here’s to 2021! Samain QUOTE OF THE MONTH: HALESWORTH to SOUTHWOLD 11 The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We NARROW GAUGE RAILWAY can help write that story by setting goals SOCIETY An update on progress made Melody Beattie

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‘BE A LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS’ IN 2021 Following the success of the ‘Holocaust her grandparents, parents and brother to The event will take place Memorial Day’ event in Southwold and Reydon safety from Paris in 1941 through occupied between 11.30 and in 2020, plans were being discussed for a France and Vichy into Spain and onto Lisbon 12.30 on Thursday 21st similar event to take place in January 2021. where they took a ship to Jamaica. Aspects January and everyone However because of the coronavirus pandemic of Miriam’s story appeared in Anne Sebba’s is invited to attend. The restrictions it has been decided that rather than book, Les Parisiennes, about women in Paris event can be accessed meeting together in person, there will be a live under Nazi occupation. Anne Sebba spoke to at: event online via Zoom instead. The theme for the Southwold Archaeological and Historical https://us02web.zoom. 2021 is ‘Be a Light in the Darkness’ and our Society about her book two years ago. us/j/88312600710?pwd event will include a talk by Professor Lawrence There will also be a film clip of a talk by Mukash =NjFYYXJMZURzQUxjdzhFSUU4LzZzdz09 Goldman, a historian and the former director of Kapila about the Darfur Genocide where an the Institute of Historical Research in London. estimated 200,000 people died from violence Meeting ID: 883 1260 0710 Passcode: He is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical between 2003 and 2005. The one hour 171377 Society and a resident of Southwold. programme will also include music, a poem For further information email Chris Ure at read by Janet Gershlick, and prayers from [email protected] or phone 01502 His talk, ‘Miriam’s Story’, will speak of his Reverend Alan Perry. 725793. remarkable family member who shepherded FIND A FIRMER FOOTING

The first few months of the year are generally cold, wet and a bit miserable, with a higher chance of ice and snow on the ground and on pavements.

It is precisely these kinds of weather conditions that tend to give rise at this time of year to more people slipping, tripping or falling when out and about, often in a public place or even in the workplace.

These types of accident also, unfortunately, often result in people sustaining more serious injuries, such as broken bones and spinal and head injuries, that, in the worst cases, can prove fatal.

However, bringing a claim for personal injury as a result of a slip, trip or fall can be tricky. Pinpointing the correct person to bring a claim against can be difficult, if, for example, there are a number of poten tial owners of the accident site. Gathering the evidence needed to prove such a claim against whoever is responsible can then some times seem to be a mammoth task.

Depending upon where you fall - on publicly or privately owned land - also makes a difference to the chances of successfully bringing a claim for compensation for personal injury and loss because the courts apply different tests to determine whether responsibility can be attached.

For example, while you may not be able to claim compensation if you tripped or slipped on a public highway or pavement, if the same accident occurred on privately owned land, you may be more suc cessful.

So, what should you do, if you have an accident as a result of a slip, warning signs), if possible, get pictures of them and record the trip or fall either out and about or at work? dates on which the remedial steps were taken. • If available, get witness evidence from anyone who saw the • Seek medical attention / get help. accident or who can provide information as to how long the • Report the accident to whoever is responsible for the site of the defect that caused you to fall was present before the incident accident, whether that is the local council or a privately owned took place. individual or company – ensure that the accident is logged in • Keep records of your injuries and details of any out of pocket the accident book. expenses you may have incurred as a result of your injuries, • If the incident takes place at work, notify your workplace health such as loss of earnings, medications, travel expenses and de and safety representative. tails of any care that you may have received. • Take photographs of the scene of the accident on the day - or as near to the day of the accident as possible. Bringing these types of claim for compensation for personal injury • Take details of exactly where you fell, what caused you to fall can be a minefield. So, if you require assistance or advice on whether and what your direction of travel was. you can claim following an accident where you have slipped, tripped • If you are aware that remedial action is taken after the accident or fallen, please contact Louise Plant on 01473 298293 or by email has occurred to rectify any defect that caused you to slip, trip at [email protected]. or fall, or any steps are taken after the event (such as putting up

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A FITTING TRIBUTE TO HALESWORTH’S WAR HEROES Remembrance Day may have passed in the Royal Navy. Enlisting as J/27366 Memorial to the missing, unveiled in a lower key than usual this year but in Boy Seaman 2nd Class, he first attended October 1924. Halesworth it has been marked by the H.M.S. Ganges, the Boy’s Training School beginning of the end of a long quest by at Shotley in Suffolk. Although described Tragically news of Walter’s death did not one resident. as a quiet lad, whilst there he soon reach his mother until after Peace had began to show great promise - so much been declared. She had already lost her Alan Clapson of Chediston Street, a so that he was one of the twenty top husband two years before. long-standing member of the Territorial students to receive their posting with the In contrast, 20 year-old Ebenezer Brown Army, has been a regular attender of the rank of Boy 1st class. On the 15th April of Butts Road was one of the last of Remembrance Day service in the town 1914 he joined his first and only ship - the war-dead. He fell near the town of since he and his wife, Sue, came to the the Edgar Class Cruiser H.M.S. Hawke, Solesmes in France during the final push town in 2000. Listening to the roll-call of which was launched in March 1891. By against German forces. The date was the fallen, it occurred to him that, behind 1914 she was now considered rather old 20 October 1918. Three weeks later each of these names, there had been for a modern ship of the line. a life, a family, a story, which should be the Armistice was signed. Tragically remembered and celebrated. Together, At the outbreak of the Great War in news of Ebenezer’s death did not reach the Clapsons set about the task of August 1914 his ship was part of the his mother until after Peace had been researching the stories of each of the Home Fleet patrolling the North Sea. declared. She had already lost her eighty-odd Halesworth-born men who There, on the 15th October, whilst in husband two years before. never returned from the 1st World War. company with her sister ship H.M.S. Over the coming months the rest of Theseus she was torpedoed by the these tributes will be published on the It is a task which has taken them nearly German Submarine U-9. The Hawke Museum website. Wherever possible two decades and has occupied many sank in just a few minutes taking with they are illustrated with photographs thousands of hours of study in books and her the Captain, twenty-six officers and and, where they have survived, with online, in the local museum and at the four hundred and ninety-seven men letters and mementoes of these local National Archives. and boys - including poor Walter. The heroes. Hawke was the latest sinking attributed Now the first of those stories can be told. to the U-9 having just a month previously Having worked from the beginning in Readers can access the first of accounted for three other British cruisers collaboration with the Halesworth and the stories on the website of the in the space of an hour. District Museum, Alan has determined to Halesworth and District Museum: http:// halesworthmuseum.org.uk/wpress/men- publish each of these short biographies After his loss Walter’s parents would of-halesworth-who-served-in-the-great- on the Museum’s website where have heard the sad news of his death at war/ they will be accessible to everyone. their new home at No. 63 London Road Remembrance Day 2020 provided the on the 23rd October 1914. As with the occasion for the publication online of the rest of his shipmates lost that day Walter first ten. Each is a poignant story of a life is now remembered on the Chatham cut short.

One of these was Walter Adamson, who was not only the youngest Halesworth man to die, but also the first. Born in the town on the 6th November 1897, the second son of Samuel, a brewers’ labourer and his wife Florence (née Watson) he went on to attend the Halesworth Boys School until the age of fourteen, when having completed his education he found work locally as a sack mender employed by Dennington and Co Ltd sack, rope and tent manufacturers of London Road. No doubt he found the work menial and possibly found his older brother Samuel’s stories of life at sea exciting.

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INK FESTIVAL They say, Radio Suffolk, to daily audiences of tens of we have a new play writing initiative with our “when life serves you lemons, make thousands. This month East Suffolk One Radio partners BBC Radio Suffolk. lemonade.” has started broadcasting them twice each day. The most positive and encouraging news is Dear Friends We have run a plethora of workshops on Zoom the support we have received from you, our Well, we’ve certainly been served lemons – in for INKlings (Under 12s), teenagers, and the friends, Aviva, The Suffolk Foundation and fact, a cart load since March. over 60s, resulting in some fabulous new work Ecclesiastical Movement for Good, amongst Having lost the INK Festival, with just a couple showcased by actors online. many – where would be without all this of weeks to go, plus 2 tours we watched, like generosity? Thank you for believing in us. every other arts organisation in the country, as Entries for INK 2021 opened, and in just 2 our 2020 plans faded away. weeks we received over 250 new short scripts, In brief, we are here, still standing, knee deep However, we have gone on to make buckets of including for a new category ‘County Lines’. in lemonade and getting ready for 2021 and a lemonade and haven’t stopped inspiring new 70% of submissions came from East Anglian wonderful INK Festival – watch this space! short play writing… writers; 55% 1st time writers; 58% under 25s Since April we have posted ‘Writers’ Top Tips’ and 10% over 60s! All the best on social media, from many of our fabulous INK writers, and invited submissions for new This Autumn we are delighted to be working Julia Sowerbutts monologues and duologues for actors to with the wonderful Alde Valley Festival – a Artistic Director record. Over 500 scripts were submitted. 90 site specific radio play by INK writers will be actors performed the best, which for 7 months, recorded and played during the Festival in www.inkfestival.org have been broadcast every week day, on BBC their old stables! And, as Christmas is coming,

JANE AUSTEN’S EMMA Following the success of their first throughout 2021 and the full production which plays host to a regular stream of production of ‘Hound of the Baskervilles’, is due to tour East Anglia in the Spring local talent, regional and national touring The Seagull Rep company, under the of 2022. Produced and adapted by theatre companies, with support from The direction of Ann Courtney, will transport East Anglian actor, writer and director Keeper’s Daughter theatre company and Jane Austen’s romantic comedy ‘Emma’ on Mark Finbow, whose passion for taking Arts Council England. to the dance floor of a wedding. A cast of a beloved classic text and creating two, multi-rolling, actors will explore this imaginative and playful productions has The sharing will be free with an invited well-loved Regency tale of matchmaking engaged audiences across the region since sharing at 3pm and public sharing at and unrequited love on Thursday 25 2009 with notable productions including 7.30pm on Thursday 25 February 2021. February at the Seagull Theatre, Lowestoft. Seagull Rep’s ‘Hound of the Baskervilles’ Tickets must be booked in advance. as well as ‘A Christmas Carol’ and ‘Dracula’ Suitable for ages 7 and upwards, more This live sharing of the Seagull Rep’s new with The Keeper’s Daughter Theatre information can be found at www. small-scale professional touring show Company. Produced by The Seagull Rep, seagullrep.co.uk will feed into the creative process and a touring theatre company based at The development of the show will continue Seagull Theatre in Pakefield Lowestoft,

FURTHER FUNDING AVAILABLE TO TACKLE SOCIAL ISOLATION A funding programme which supports people particularly vulnerable during this time. and continues to cause, additional challenges struggling with social isolation and loneliness for those who were already struggling with is now accepting new applications. Following the success of two previous social isolation and loneliness. I would rounds of applications, a third round has encourage community groups and voluntary East Suffolk Council’s Hidden Needs now been opened. Applications are invited organisations to apply for this funding which Programme was originally launched in 2018 from local community groups and voluntarily will help support and connect vulnerable to support older people and families with organisations who are delivering projects people during this challenging time.” limited resources who were struggling with which can help reduce social isolation and social isolation and loneliness. In a response loneliness. Grants of up to £10,000 are Applications must be submitted by 15 to Covid-19, East Suffolk Council relaunched available through the scheme. January 2021. the scheme in June with a fund of £100,000 and adapted it to help fund projects Councillor Letitia Smith, East Suffolk’s cabinet For more information and to apply, please which supports people of all ages who are member for Communities, Leisure and go to www.eastsuffolk.gov.uk/hidden-needs- Tourism, said: “The pandemic has caused, grant-programme.

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SINGING IN THE RAIN

Little Stars have been rehearsing in preparation for a planned performance at The Cut when Covid allows!

We have managed to sing, dance and set scenes for ‘Singing in the Rain’ since April, mostly on Zoom but also in fields!

We look forward to showing you, hopefully in the not too distant future!

Denise Clark and the Little Stars

GIPPESWYK SINGERS ARE SEARCHING FOR A NEW CONDUCTOR. Geoff Lavery, our current musical We enjoy singing a wide range of get better and better! director, will be stepping down in music from classical to modern, both June 2021 after a tenure of 10 years. a cappella and accompanied, and Gippeswyk Singers has also Gippeswyk Singers is a chamber choir occasionally larger choral works with performed to sell-out audiences at of approximately 40 singers which professional soloists and orchestral Snape Maltings Concert Hall where was originally founded by Geoff in accompaniment. The choir performs they joined forces with two other 1972 with the aim of raising money several local concerts each year and Suffolk choirs (Beccles Choral Society for local charities with the profits from the occasional wedding, as well and Phoenix Singers) and Lambeth their concerts. (He left after the initial as touring every second summer Orchestra from London for Elgar’s 10 years to pursue his musical career with successful concert tours to Dream of Gerontius (2017) and Verdi’s and then returned to Suffolk upon Holland (2014), Yorkshire (2016), The Requiem (2019), both conducted by retirement.) Geoff has taken the choir West Country (2018) with a further Geoff Lavery. from strength to strength with tireless tour planned to Elgar Country in energy and enthusiasm and was to Gloucestershire in the future. We’re hoping to attract an finish with a flourish - a final concert in experienced and enthusiastic new May 2021 at Snape Maltings Concert The choir tours have been hugely conductor to lead us into the future Hall. Sadly, the Covid 19 virus has popular with the Singers. Travelling, and many more years of successful prevented this from going ahead next sharing meals, and sightseeing as singing. Applications can be year. The choir has continued to keep well as the joy of singing together downloaded from our website: in touch with zoom meetings and has created warmth and lasting www.gippeswyksingers.co.uk emails, and hope to be able to start friendships amongst the group and rehearsals again (with safety measures helped form a wonderfully friendly in place) in 2021. and cohesive choir. Performances just

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HALESWORTH TO SOUTHWOLD NARROW GAUGE RAILWAY SOCIETY Dedicated to re-creating Halesworth’s Part of HSNGR’s remit is industrial tools and equipment – and to Halesworth lost railway archaeology: volunteers have identified Hoot & Southwold Organ Editor Louise the passenger platform, and in Gissing for her unswerving support over Winter has seen a tremendous effort by December a new member found part of the years. It is no exaggeration to say the Society’s volunteers – sometimes in the station building foundations. Other that we’d be nothing without our many difficult weather conditions - and thanks station features are being mapped well-wishers in and around Halesworth. to them, Phase I of the Blythburgh (it’s quite hard to see where things Goods Shed project is complete. The were, ninety years after closure), and We are now, after just over two and a half structure is finished, and treated with occasionally new photographs are found years, established and robust enough creosote inside and bitumen outside: and added to the Society collection. to be able to build a working passenger interior brickwork has been lime-washed, railway in the Blyth Valley, to benefit the as it used to be, and our blacksmith Meanwhile, we now have the cast local community, and to revive the classic has made a replica hasp and staple for brass name and number plates for historic line – if we get the chance. So the – now repaired – doors. This will be locomotive ‘Halesworth’, and we are what we need now is for one or more joined by a vintage padlock donated by looking at how best to build the replica, track-bed owners to be willing to allow a member. The short demonstration track and raise funding for it. Other rolling that to happen. The Society is very (which uses entirely recycled rail and stock has been worked on – wagon 1 is flexible, and is happy to buy, lease, or sleepers) is also laid down, and recycled complete, and ready to go to The Folly rent the eleven-foot-wide strip of land – crushed brick used to make a pathway, at Halesworth Millennium Green, and or to come to any other agreement on its as well as the inside floor. Replica fencing Wagon 2 only needs a little work. Plans limited use by quiet, unobtrusive trains, and a typical Suffolk gate surround the for the passenger coach continue. The depending on the landowners’ wishes. building, and wild grass seed (combined test track at our Blyth Valley workshop with a wild woodland flower mix) is is being put together, with the point Ken Penrose and James Hewett, Co- already showing green to the south and now complete, and tested using our Chairmen east: fifty native hedge trees have been environmentally- planted along the north side boundary. friendly battery- electric ‘Greenbat’ On Remembrance Sunday, we held the locomotive, which is two-minutes silence, marking its start silent in operation. and finish using a donated ship’s bell, which will later be attached to one of our The Society would locomotives (friendlier than a piercing like to take this whistle!). opportunity to wish a very Happy Blythburgh Phase II in 2021, thanks to New Year to all our agreement by the owner, will include the friends, members and reproduction platform sign (the letter supporters, and to castings are in hand), and a replica goods say a heartfelt “thank wagon and internal platform, making up you” to everyone who a display about how Blythburgh used its has helped, worked station for fifty years. The Society plans (both onsite and to have a ceremonial opening of this behind the scenes) important part of Blythburgh’s history and donated cash, next spring, Coivid-19 permitting.

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12 ALDEBURGH TIMES HALESWORTH HOOT LEISTON OBSERVER VIEW OUR FULL COLLECTION AT TIDECOLLECTION.COM SET BECCLES SCHOOL Pastoral Care Jenny joined Seckford Foundation in 2018 to head up their mentoring programme which quickly evolved from a well- At SET Beccles School we pride ourselves on the pastoral care being service into holistic support looking at careers, skills, we give to each and every one of our students, developing and health and wellbeing. Prior to this Jenny came from a business supporting them from when they join us in Year 7, whatever their background, with involvement in the development of businesses needs; so they can develop in to well-rounded young adults in partnership others then latterly her own small enterprise. prepared for the future by the time they leave us. She also volunteered with Young Enterprise, chaired business networks and, before lockdown, enjoyed creating and running We provide for this in a number of ways, one of which is our major community events. Her passion is to now share all her continued careers guidance which aims to provide students connections and experience with young people so they can find with the knowledge, information and skills they require to make as much enjoyment on their career journey as she did… and still informed choices about suitable courses at School, College and does. University and the opportunities available with regard to jobs in the future. To achieve these aims, students undertake a variety of Scholars Programme Careers and Work Related Learning activities throughout every year of their education at SET Beccles School. The School has recently set up a Scholars Programme in partnership with The Brilliant Club, providing a link between On Friday 27 November, all year groups participated in our Year 8 students and local universities. The programme enables annual Careers Day. This included an off timetable Personal, students to work with a PhD researcher and understand more Social, Health and Economic (PSHE) event, with year group about university life, build on their love for learning and ensure targeted activities that included Virtual Guest Speakers, they are able to develop the skills needed in the next phase Improving your Learning Skills, Building on your Media Literacy of their education. Students are required to complete an initial and Online Skills, Widening your Financial Literacy, Careers assessment online which is followed by small group sessions Research and Understanding Employment and the workplace. in School, using course booklets and materials provided. They This programme planned is a key element of the School’s focus have the opportunity to learn about diverse and exciting topics on encouraging and preparing all students to explore and aspire ranging from Gender and Peace to Post-war Politics. when it comes to their future career journeys. Heidi Philpott, Head of School at SET Beccles School, said “It is so important to further develop the progress our students are The Careers Education Team aims to enable students to receive making and I am keen to encourage this, by building on their accurate and impartial information, advice and guidance about strengths and participating in programmes such as The Brilliant all the options which are open to them and the routes to which Club”. those options lead. In addition to the Careers Education Team in the School, Jenny Stockman joined Seckford Education Trust (SET) at the start of the Autumn term. Her role is as independent careers advisor and Jenny is now available to chat through the wealth of Post-16 options that are open to students. From apprenticeships to Sixth form or planning for longer term pathways through university or further education, she will help them explore the direction that will suit them best and navigate their way through the rapidly changing labour market and further education options.

To find out more about SET Beccles School please call 01502 718850, email [email protected] or visit www. becclesschool.org.uk

Heidi Philpott, Head of School

SET Beccles School students benefitted from the virtual Careers Day. Photos: Seckford Education Trust

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people with dementia and their “Although new referrals have decreased carers are provided with respite over the last 6 months, significant care, information and support. The interactions and time directly spent with Coronavirus Pandemic has prevented clients has risen dramatically, doubling to us from doing any fund-raising this year, 8530 hours”. so your help with this project is even more important. Our ‘Cause’ profile HDCF has had its first virtual meeting, giving information about HDCF can be and this was also our 7th AGM. Chairman viewed on www.membership.coop.co.uk/ Teresa Fyfe welcomed 4 new Trustees causes/52325, and we will keep you – Bill Ellis, John Wood, Geoff Cackett, informed monthly on how we are getting and Iris Smith who has taken over as on. Please phone Jim (number above) if Treasurer from Mary Pennock who has done such a great job over the last 4 Co-op Local Community Fund you would like further information. years. We are delighted to inform you that From Our Secretary, Dave Rich. Halesworth Dementia Carers’ Fund has The committee received Annual Reports been selected to take part in the Co-op We have had a half-yearly report from and Accounts from the previous year. Local Community Fund. This is a fantastic Daniel Schaffer, Dementia Connect Local Services Manager who said: Sadly, we have said farewell to two opportunity for you to help us raise members, Tessa Harding who was a funds for your local dementia charity. “Alice Sparksman has been a consistent founder member and Patricia Flegg who Our local Co-op foodstore in Halesworth presence within the Halesworth dealt with publicity. Both will be greatly is an independent Co-op so is not part Dementia Support service over the last 6 missed and we wish them well. of this scheme, however Laxfield Co-op months. This has been vitally important Foodstore, Rackham’s Funeral Care as it has enabled relationships to be Chairman Teresa thanked all the Diss and Woolnough’s Funeral Care maintained and provided additional committee members for their hard work Halesworth are participants. We would assurance to clients at a challenging during the lockdown, reaching out and like to encourage everyone who intends time. Alice is seconded from the keeping in touch with the carers. to use any of the above services to apply Alzheimer’s Society for two days a week Thanks also go to Alison Cackett for the for a blue Co-op card, and those who and has been working remotely since knitted dishcloths and to Tracy Excell for have a blue Co-op card to support us. March 2020. (you are encouraged to have, and use, her social media updates. We extend out both Co-op membership cards). “Alice has continued to support those thanks to Jill Reece, our Town Council carers who require regular contact or representative, for her interest in the We would be very grateful, if you are who have support needs, and delivers Fund and feedback from the Council. members of this group, if you select us a high quality and intensive service Our Patron, Paddy Cox, added his thanks as your Cause and perhaps consider to those who require support with to the Committee for all their hard work donating your personal allowance to dementia-related issues. and the help given to the people of us. You can join on-line at coop.co.uk/ Halesworth. membership, or by downloading the Co- The service delivery looks different from op App. When you buy selected Co-op other years through not being able to Finally, HDCF would like to thank all products and services, including funeral provide face to face services, but Alice the local carers and everyone who has arrangements, 2p in every £1 goes into has been able to extend her reach and helped and supported us over the last your Co-op Membership Account, and support through this challenging period. year. We wish you and your families the Co-op will give the same amount to This has presented a challenge in its own good health and a happier outlook for support community organisations. There right as the level of support required, the New Year. are 3 good causes this year and we hope the technical and emotional complexity you will feel able to support us. of the work, and the lack of face to face John Wood. peer support has had an impact on Alice. HDCF raises money to ensure local HDCF Publicity Officer.

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