Dawn Butler is a member of Parliament a politician who is known for her straight talking and inspirational speeches.
Dawn made history as the first Black woman to speak from the despatch box in the house of commons, she was first ever elected female African-Caribbean government minister in the House of Commons.
Dawn uses her platform for others again making history by using British Sign Language to ask a question in the House of Commons to raise...
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Lewis Hancox is an influencer, filmmaker and illustrator from the North West UK. Mainly known for his online characters ‘British Mum’ and ‘Prinny
Queen’, he's built a committed following and regularly produces viral comedy videos.
In 2011 he featured in the Channel 4 series ‘My Transsexual Summer’, which
initially gave him a platform for his work. He co-created an ongoing film
project about trans people called ‘My Genderation’, with trans-activist
Fox Fisher. Their films have been screened in festivals all...
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Dom is best known for his master metal work in the RTS Award-winning, BBC One show, The Repair Shop. Bringing broken and much loved treasures back to life, the show has been a runaway success and is a moving production that manages to combine jaw dropping restoration with warmth, humour and ingenuity.
There is much more to Dom that just metal work though. Working across many mediums – set design, prop making, metal work, sign writing...
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Ben Ramalingam is an internationally recognised thought leader, policy influencer and operational innovator. His childhood in Sri Lanka during the civil war profoundly shaped his outlook, giving him the passion and motivation to transform how the international community harnesses innovation in dealing with conflict and crisis. At the heart of Ben’s work is a commitment to a simple but challenging principle: complex and urgent problems demand more original and novel thinking, not less.
His expertise is...
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Rosie Garland writes novels, poetry, short fiction and sings with post-punk band The March Violets. With a passion for language nurtured by public libraries, her work has appeared in Under the Radar, The North, Mslexia, Butcher’s Dog, Longleaf Review, Spelk, Ellipsis, Rialto & elsewhere.
Debut novel The Palace of Curiosities (HarperCollins 2013) won the inaugural Mslexia Novel Competition and was nominated for both The Desmond Elliott and Polari First Book Prize. Second novel Vixen (Borough Press...
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Rachel Allen is a bestselling cookery writer, TV chef and celebrated teacher at the world-famous Ballymaloe Cookery School in County Cork, Ireland. Raised in Dublin, Rachel began study at Ballymaloe at the age of 18, remaining after graduation to cook at the Ballymaloe House Hotel and Restaurant. She then set off to cook around the world, returning afterwards to Ballymaloe to work at the cookery school. It was there she found her passion for teaching,...
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Bernadette Strachan is the author of sixteen novels. The two most recent of these will be published by Simon and Schuster in 2019. Both are still in Title Hell, but one is a standalone under her well established pseudonym Juliet Ashton, and the other is the second instalment of a three book collaboration with her husband, the composer Matthew Strachan.
Born to an Irish family in London, Bernadette was a swot at school, yet had no...
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Originally in the RAF, Matt gained a diploma at Leiths School of Food and Wine in London, before working for some of London's most prestigious restaurants. This includes Marco Pierre White at the Oak Room and Criterion, and Alastair Little who he cites as the greatest influence on his cuisine....
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Frances is part of the presenting team for ITV’s Love Your Garden, together the team have travelled all over the country giving surprise transformations to the outdoor spaces of some very deserving people. Frances’ role is predominantly plant-based, working in the garden throughout the whole construction of the site and lending a helping hand with the landscaping when it is needed.
In 2016 Frances joined BBC’s Gardeners’ World doing a few strands for the programme, one...
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