A message from Vivienne Mary Woolston

An "end of a magnificent year" message to you as one of the many wonderful people that enabled Thursday’s Child become a reality. Thank you for all your support – it has been a huge pleasure and honour to meet up with you.

Thursday’s Child – A Celebration of Faith Ltd Founder & Director Business person turned peace worker since the London bombs in July 2005 Launched "Thursday’s Child" as a positive response to the London bombings "to take a supposed source of conflict and turn it into a resource for peace and harmony".

• Following the inaugural event in East London an evaluation took place and those of you that attended and provided feedback I am deeply grateful.
• On the personal side I moved to Hove in Sussex on the 16th July and cannot believe I have been here 5 months already!
• Interestingly word of Thursday’s Child had indeed spread here to the coast within a number of constituencies
• The event brochure and follow up newsletter are on the web site www.thursdays-child.co.uk
• Huge thanks to Sue Ganter and her team at Interfusion that became the editorial and production team for the newsletter
• The audited accounts for Thursday's Child have been completed and shall be available on the web site shortly
• I have been engaging with others in Sussex with a “Thursday’s Child comes to Brighton & Hove” theme – watch this space for more news on that
• It is still the wish to take Thursday's Child to every city and so on – one city at a time!
• With this in mind I have applied to several grant giving foundations and so on for funding including Connecting Communities Round 3.
• A short film was created during the Saturday, 7th July, and is downloadable from the web site – I am sincerely grateful to Andrew of Clarity Communications for all his voluntary support.
• The EDM eventually gained 29 MPs signatures in support – 15 Labour, 7 Conservative, 6 Liberal and 1 Plaid Cymru.