Meet Your Winners! NORTH DEVON's INSPIRING PEOPLE 2017
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The Inspiring People issue - FREE FASHION, FAMILY, CULTURE, LIFE Meet your Winners! NORTH DEVON'S INSPIRING PEOPLE 2017 The Archers effect HOW THE RADIO SOAP RAISED AWARENESS OF DOMESTIC ABUSE Style it on a shoestring AT THE NEW re:store POP UP SHOP Drills with thrills GIVE YOUR WORKOUT AN ADRENALIN BOOST www.ndada.co.uk BLUE FIZZ EVENTS PRESENTS... What’s Welcome 'm thrilled to welcome you to the second annual inspirational issue of re:story I magazine. inside Following the success of our Inspiring Women campaign in 2016, this year sees the inclusion of men, too. We asked North Devon folk 5 Meet your Inspiring People 2017 to get involved by nominating their local Let us introduce your winners. inspirations across a range of categories. And it was a pleasure to celebrate the six winners Do you see her? at a fab social soirée at Boston Tea Party on March 17. 11 Making communities aware of abuse behind closed doors. We've included men in this year's Inspiring People Awards because we feel it's important NDADA news to recognise that domestic abuse is an issue 12 All aboard the new NDADA bus for which affects everyone – regardless of gender, boutique fashion at bargain prices. social standing or background. On the subject of men, I'm very pleased to Acting with street cred announce that our board of trustees has been 14 Drama is spilling out of the theatres 0 7 joined by Paul Trueman who is on a mission6 3.0 .1 and onto the streets. 6 to encourage men to be 'part of the solution'. Read all about him on page 20. Crafty ideas for your home 18 Interior designer Janelle Edwards-Spear's AT Croyde, North Devon pick of hand-crafted finds for the home. 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IMAGE CREDITS : FRECKLE PHOTOGRAPHY, BLUE FIZZ EVENTS, STEVEN LAURENT HAIRDRESSERS, CLAIRE BOWRING, DAYS OF GRACE, FEATHERED FANTASY Designed and written in north Devon by www.saltmedia.co.uk Fashion styling by Alessia Sheldon Photography by Paula Davies, Guy Harrop Photography and Mike Southon Thank you Castle Hill for providing photography location. re:story is available free of charge at selected retailers, salons, children’s centres and waiting rooms, and is funded by our advertisers. For copies or to advertise, email [email protected] or call 01237 472939. Disclaimer: the opinions expressed in this magazine are not necessarily those of North Devon Against Domestic Abuse, and products and services advertised are not endorsed by the charity or its trustees. Meet your INSPIRE ME Inspiring Thanks so much to all of you who nominated People your local heroes in our Inspiring People Awards 2017. Your winners – each of them with an illuminating and deeply inspiring story to tell – were announced during an uplifting bash at the Boston Tea Party in Barnstaple in March A photography exhibition of winners remains on show at Boston Tea Party until the end of March. Photographs by Guy Harrop Inspiring In the arts © Guy Harrop Actors Bill Buffery and Gill Nathanson (aka multi story theatre company) became inspired to set up Barnstaple's Fringe TheatreFest (see page 14 for details) after taking part in Canadian fringe festivals. ‘We absolutely loved the Canadian festivals and decided that we could do it in our home town of Barnstaple,' says Gill. 'Of course, participation in a festival is very different to running one and our learning curve has been like the north face of the Eiger sometimes. With each year presenting its own new challenges, this award gives us the determination to keep pursuing new possibilities.’ What inspires you? 'Our team of 50 volunteers come back year after year to make TheatreFest happen - some people even take unpaid holiday to work on the festival,' says Bill. 'It's humbling and a reminder that it's people's kindness and selflessness that makes good things happen.' Describe yourself in three words 'Let's do it!' Proudly sponsored by: 4 re:story THE INSPIRING PEOPLE ISSUE | www.ndada.co.uk THE INSPIRING PEOPLE ISSUE re:story 5 INSPIRE ME INSPIRE ME Inspiring © Guy Harrop © Guy Harrop Inspiring Person under 21 Sportsperson Liv Bennett, who has been a member of Croyde Surf Life Saving Club for 11 Marathon runner Peggy Crome, 73, took years, started to help coach at Women on Waves at the age of just 14. up jogging to help kick her smoking habit. Discovering she adored being ‘The group was mainly made up of mums who wanted to learn sea safety and gain active, she decided to tackle a triathlon some confidence. Most wanted to learn so that they could take their children in – one of the first people in the UK to the ocean safely.' do so. Since then, she has competed in Liv enjoyed the coaching so much she volunteered to help at the Wave Project. tough triathlons all over the world – not to 'The Wave Project is a charity organisation that helps disadvantaged children mention swimming in some pretty rough seas. learn to surf and be safe in the sea. The young people who get referred Peggy enjoys the camaraderie of the North to the Wave Project have a range of physical, mental or emotional Devon Triathlon Club and has represented Great disorders, and the surf therapy helps empower them and enable them Britain in the Age Group team. She has won many to overcome challenges and develop self worth.’ Liv also helped set up medals at both world and European level and, last a girls' surf club called Wave Wahines. August, completed the cycle ride from John O’Groats to Land’s End with her granddaughter Hannah, 13. What inspires you? ‘Many people have inspired me, but foremost my older sister, Jasmine. She is always What inspires you? 'A training schedule gives me positive and so busy. She showed me that there is always something to get up for in the morning. Everyone needs something time in the day to fit in something more. to get up for - mine used to be a cup of coffee and a cigarette. Now it's ‘I also found inspiration from one of my secondary coffee and a swim, cycle or run. I am also inspired when people new school teachers, the late Olaf Rinvolucri. He to triathlon ask me how to get involved, where to start and showed unending passion and was never how to progress.' judgmental or dismissive of ideas, no matter how “out there” they were. He taught me Describe that it's not about what you do, it's about how much love and enthusiasm you can put yourself in in to what you do. three words 'And, of course, the young people at the Wave Project, 'Difficult to describe myself but who show relentless determination and open-heartedness others might say, "inspirational, in the face of adversity.' dedicated (to triathlon) and love a challenge" (oops that's eight).' Describe yourself in three words 'Enthusiastic, compassionate, free-thinker.' Proudly sponsored by: Proudly sponsored by: 6 re:story THE INSPIRING PEOPLE ISSUE | www.ndada.co.uk THE INSPIRING PEOPLE ISSUE re:story 7 INSPIRE ME Inspiring Person over 70 Inspiring INSPIRE ME He’s a rugby and hockey enthusiast (he’s played at county level for Gloucestershire and Community Work West of England), a qualified pilot, a member of Heanton art group and chairman of the What inspires you? Chaloners Educational Foundation. And if that’s not enough to inspire you, two years ago John Howell, 86, abseiled 90ft down St Augustine’s church tower at Lisa Wallis created ChemoHero in 2014 after being ‘I am truly inspired by those who are given obstacles in Heanton Punchardon, in aid of North Devon Hospital Chemotherapy unit. diagnosed with invasive breast cancer. After eight their lives but who still manage to see good in life and rounds of chemotherapy and radiotherapy, she use it to make great things happen to them. To say the octogenarian has lived an adventure-filled life is somewhat of an wanted to 'make sure that everyone going through understatement. Having qualified in medicine in 1954 he served in the RAF in 'I have worked with supported learning students for chemotherapy knows they are not alone'. the UK, Far East and Europe with detachments to the Middle East, the Maldivian just under 16 years and every day I see them overcome archipelago before working as a GP and assistant paediatrician at North Devon At the end of 2015 she had the news that her cancer difficulties in their lives. It gives me such fight to grab District Hospital. Along the way he's acquired five children, 11 grandchildren had spread to the opposite side of her body. The each day I am given as, despite the cancer, I am truly and four great grandchildren. tumour was removed and she had further treatment.