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16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence

Justice & Advocacy Jenny Clark (ACSQ Domestic and Family Violence Project Officer) and The Ven. Dr Lucy Morris (ACSQ Domestic and Family Violence Working Group Chair) outside St John’s Cathedral in 2023 Justice & Advocacy

Making the invisible visible

“Domestic and family violence remains a difficult issue for many in the Church. It’s an uncomfortable concept that is incongruous for those who value peace, love and care. And because of this we can develop a blind spot to this issue within our own families, workplaces, social networks, and indeed in our church communities,” says new Domestic and Family Violence Working Group chair The Ven. Dr Lucy Morris

A red bench was installed and commemorated on 13 May 2023 at St Oswald’s Anglican Church in Banyo, with Jennifer Clark (ACSQ Domestic and Family Violence Project Officer), The Rev’d Elizabeth Donald-McConnell who blessed the bench, Mununjali student Jaara Wright who gave the Acknowledgement to Country (Jaara and her mum, Larissa, wrote the acknowledgement especially for the day), Northgate Ward Councillor Adam Allan (the Lord Mayor’s Community Fund supported the red bench) and Dr Brian Sullivan (Red Rose Foundation spokesperson), Dianne Barnham (Parish Councillor and North-East Deanery Mothers Union Secretary) and Lyn Northfield (Parish Councillor, People’s Warden and North-East Deanery Mothers Union President) in attendance
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Banyo’s new red bench blessed

“It is important for St Oswald’s Church to increase domestic and family violence awareness as part of our parish’s Mission Action Plan. This plan helps Banyo parishioners implement our commitment to challenging violence, particularly violence within families,” says The Parish of Banyo’s Elizabeth Nunn
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Cathedral Mothers Union group installs red bench

“The idea of having a red bench at the Cathedral began when Betty Taylor, founder of the Red Rose Foundation, was a guest speaker at a Mothers Union gathering in 2021. The Red Rose Foundation works to eliminate domestic and family violence related deaths,” says Secretary of St John’s Cathedral Mothers Union, Glynis Jenkins

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