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BBC Women’s Hour Presenter Launches Cambridge Loves The One

BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour presenter, Jane Garvey, is headlining an exclusive evening of conversation with inspirational women at Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge on Friday, 2 February 2018.

The event is in aid of children’s charity, Love The One, aiming to raise £8,000 - enough to open three new pre-school centres for poor, abused, orphaned, exploited and marginalised children in India. 100% of ticket prices are donated to the charity.

Buy Tickets via Eventbrite: http://bit.do/cambridgeLTO

The event is being organised by Catherine Carr, a Cambridge-based documentary-maker and broadcaster, who won an award for her report about the work of Love The One for BBC Radio 4’s Women’s Hour; ‘India’s Trafficked Children’. She is currently the producer of the top-rated Talking Politics podcast (now sponsored by The London Review of Books), which is recorded weekly in Cambridge.

Catherine Carr, Cambridge Loves The One organiser, says:

“I was so moved after visiting Love The One in India that I felt I should really try and do something here at home. I thought it would be bigger and better if I asked for the help of women in the city.

“The idea is simple – to get women in Cambridge together. Not only will the evening raise enough money for three new pre-school centres in Orissa, in India, it will also give women a chance to meet, chat and be inspired by the other people there. The panelists are wonderful women, all trying to change the world in some way, but the women coming are pretty darned impressive too.”

India has the highest number of children trafficked into modern slavery and the highest number of child deaths in the world. Currently, 225 vulnerable children receive daily healthcare, nutrition, education and childcare through Love The One, which serves 1,000 children with acute illnesses per year. Working with the community, the charity has directly prevented children from being forcibly taken from their mothers’ homes to be trafficked.

Jane Garvey, award-winning broadcaster, says:

“I am thrilled to be taking part in the launch event of Cambridge Loves The One, leading the conversation with such a fascinating panel of women and I look forward to meeting the women who come along. I am also delighted to support the incredible work Love The One does to transform the lives of vulnerable children and their families.”

The Event: Cambridge Loves The One

The inimitable Jane Garvey, presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Women’s Hour will be joined in conversation with three remarkable women affecting change:

• Bee Wilson
  Award-winning national food writer, author of Fortnum & Mason’s Book of the Year 2016 First Bite: How We Learn to Eat, and Trinity College, Cambridge alumni. Bee is passionate about good food and wants to transform people’s relationship with it, whatever their age.
• Meenal Sachdev
  Founder of Shiva Foundation, which campaigns against human trafficking, co-founder of youth leadership charity Connect India, and board member of social enterprise launchpad, Unltd. Meenal is convinced social justice can be achieved through collaboration and innovation.
• Elaine Storkey
  Esteemed scholar, journalist and renowned feminist. Elaine campaigns for equal rights for women around the world.

Headline sponsorship by Cambridge Property Lettings ensures that 100% of the ticket price and donations go directly to Love The One. Supporting sponsors include Luminescence Communications, Cambridge Wine Merchants, Cambridge Imprint, Bee Bee Wraps, Radmore Farm Shop, Maurizio’s Wine Bar, Cobra Beer, Bould Brothers Coffee, Cambridge Cookery Bistro + Café.

Trevor Hames, founding chairman of Cambridge Property Lettings, says:

“When we heard the accounts of mothers having to sell a child in order to have medicine for their other children, of toddlers being abused instead of protected and nurtured, of young girls forced into prostitution.....we were left feeling shocked, helpless and lost for words.

“But ‘Love the One’ are on the ground doing something about this suffering. We consider it a privilege to be able to support ‘Love the One’ by sponsoring this event in Cambridge.”

Bee Wilson, national food writer and campaigner, says:

“In a world where so many conversations seem to have become bad tempered and divisive, I’m hugely looking forward to an evening of positive conversation – and prosecco! – with brilliant women. It’s great that the evening is supporting Love the One, a charity doing vital medical and nutrition work with both women and children in India.”

Numbers are limited and tickets are expected to sell-out quickly. Tickets include Prosecco, canapes, music from harpist Betty Matheron from The Stephen Perse Foundation and an exhibition of photos from the area of India where LTO operates.

Tickets are priced at £45 and available from Eventbrite: http://bit.do/cambridgeLTO

Date: Friday, 2 February 2018

Time: 7pm – 9pm

Place: Lucy Cavendish College, Lady Margaret Road, Cambridge, CB3 0BU