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BEYOND LOCKDOWN - PLEASE FUNDRAISE FOR MARY
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During the pandemic, like other charities, we have found our fundraising badly affected. We have been unable to run events since our very successful benefit concert in early March 2020, with fabulous jazz singers Claire Martin and Liane Carroll.
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Instead we have worked to broaden support, particularly at a national level. National media coverage has brought us new donors from across the country and we are very grateful for this. Now lock-down is ending we appeal to all our supporters, old and new, to help us with our fundraising, if you are able. You can do this by: giving one-off donations, small or large; committing to regular monthly donations; or setting up your own challenge to fundraise for us.
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£6,000 SECURES A BRONZE MAQUETTE
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Denise Dutton, our wonderful sculptor, has offered to make a very limited edition of duplicate bronze maquettes available to major donors who give £6,000 or more to the Appeal. She has generously offered to do this at cost, so apart from foundry and delivery charges, all profits will go to the Appeal. This is an amazing offer from Denise who is internationally known and in great demand. She is currently working on the statue of Mary Anning which will be unveiled in Lyme Regis.
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The design shows Mary on the last two days of her life, after she has been released from prison. She holds a last few copies of Votes for Women the suffragette newspaper she sold regularly in Brighton and elsewhere. The edition she holds depicts the events of Black Friday, the violence of which (followed by her subsequent imprisonment and forcible feeding) almost certainly led to her death by brain haemorrhage. She wears her suffragette banner and her hunger striker’s medal. Her dress depicts the flowers she loved and also the prison arrows worn in Holloway prison. Stepping across the tubing, funnels and other paraphernalia of forcible feeding, which are embedded in the plinth, she gestures towards the lamp she has laid down at her feet for others to take up. Her words “I am glad to pay the price for freedom” are etched on the plinth as are the words of her sister Emmeline Pankhurst “she is the first to die. How many must follow…”. So too is Emmeline Pethick Lawrence’s statement that Mary was “the first martyr to go to death for this Cause” and Isabella McKeown’s instruction to those at Mary’s memorial service in the Royal Pavilion to “Take the torch from her and light the darkness..”.
Anyone who wishes to take up Denise’s marvellous offer should contact jeancalder.mcsa@gmail.com.
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ORGANISE A FUNDRAISING CHALLENGE
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We would love it if you could organise a fundraising challenge. This could be taking part in an organised event, such as a half marathon or bike ride, or an individual challenge you set up yourself. Anything you can think of, or imagine, from parachute jumps to coffee mornings and cakes sales through to trampoline jumps and skipping or walking challenges in your back garden, all of it will be helpful to us.
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Of course, the more you can fundraise the better, but it is also very important to us to publicise Mary’s story and make the Appeal known to the public. Our website maryclarkestatue.com allows you to give via LocalGiving and the Paypal Giving Fund. We suggest you organise your challenge via https://localgiving.org/fundraisers. Or use https://uk.gofundme.com/start/charity-fundraising which links easily to the Paypal Giving Fund. Please make sure you include the words “Mary Clarke Statue Appeal” in your title and share your fundraising page links, photos, and videos on social media with the hashtag #MaryClarke and our twitter handle @mary_statue.
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DEDICATE YOUR CHALLENGE TO "CAPTAIN TOM 100" VIA LOCALGIVING
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On 6 April 2020, Captain Tom Moore raised an astounding £38.9 million for the NHS Covid-19 appeal by walking 100 laps around his garden. To honour him and his incredible achievements, the Captain Tom 100 is taking place on the weekend of 30th April 2021 - 3rd May (the 30th marks the day that would have been his 101st birthday). It invites everyone to fundraise for a charity of their choice, taking on a challenge around the number 100 anytime and anywhere during that weeks end. You could bake a 100 cupcakes, cycle 100 miles, walk a 100 steps etc etc.
All you need to do is click on the link https://localgiving.org/fundraisers, but make sure you include the words “Captain Tom 100” and “Mary Clarke Statue Appeal” in your fundraiser title when setting up your page so that you’re included on the Local Giving campaign Captain Tom 100 page (Local Giving are offering a £100 cash prize to whichever fundraiser raises most for their charity, to be paid to that charity). Share your fundraising page links, photos, and videos on social media with the #CaptainTom100 hashtag and also #MaryClarke and our twitter handle @mary_statue.
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SUPPORT PETER BARRETT AS HE BRINGS SUFFRAGETTE ALICE HAWKINS TO BRIGHTON FESTIVAL FRINGE
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Peter Barratt from Leicester is a great grandson of suffragette Alice Hawkins and has been an inspiration to our Appeal. From 2012 he co-led a fund raising campaign for a statue of Alice and after several years of hard work and effort this proved successful. On February 4th 2018 a statue of Alice was unveiled in the Leicester market place and has been credited with commencing centenary year celebrations in the UK. Each year from 2017 Peter has taken a successful spoken word show about Alice to the Edinburgh Fringe. Last year, he planned to visit the Brighton Fringe but was foiled by COVID. This year he has booked two dates during the Fringe (29th May and 20th June) and has once again kindly offered to promote the Mary Clarke Statue Appeal and donate a proportion of the takings, which is amazingly generous of him. Please see the links below for details of the event and also more information about Alice, who led a fascinating life and whom we believe was imprisoned at least once at the same time as Mary Clarke. Please support this event.
Alice Hawkins: Suffragette | Brighton Fringe
www.alicehawkinssuffragette.co.uk
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SUPPORT THE MAYOR'S GUIDED WALKS FOR WOMEN
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There are to be a series of three guided walks exploring the city’s blue plaques for women, led by Louise Peskett. Many of these are new plaques, recently erected in honour of the local suffrage struggle, commemorating sites such as the WSPU offices at the Clock Tower, where Mary Clarke worked, and Sea View, the boarding house where Mary lived, which was owned by her suffragette friend Minnie Turner. Minnie accompanied Mary to the Black Friday event on 18th November 1910 and the subsequent protest about police conduct three days later, at which Mary was arrested.
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The walks will end in the Royal Pavilion Gardens, near the Dome and Royal Pavilion, where so many suffragette meetings took place - and where Mary’s memorial meeting was held. The Gardens are our preferred site for the proposed statue (subject to planning consent) preferably near the entrance to the Museum. The event has been commissioned by the Mayor Cllr Alan Robins, and tickets will be sold to benefit his mayoral charities. The Appeal is not one of the Mayor’s charities, but he has always supported us and has been kind enough to invite us to collect on the day. If circumstances and weather permit, we will do so and, at the Mayor’s and Louise Peskett’s request, bring the bronze maquette to the Gardens for walkers to view, as the tour ends. The “Women Behind the Plaques” walks will take place on three Saturdays, June 19th, July 10th and August 14th at 10.00am and 1.00pm. Booking via Eventbrite. Further details from historywomenbrighton@outlook.com.
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SUPPORT FROM SUSSEX PCC AND M.P
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