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Opera classics to raise cash
for cancer fight Foster for Swindon

A quartet of opera singers will be in fine voice at a concert in August
to raise money for Tami Brown from Abbey Meads.
Her old school friend Louise People Like You - Providing a Home
Lloyd is bringing together profes-
sional graduates of the Guildhall
School of Music and Drama to
perform well known classics by Make a big difference to children
Mozart, Bizet, Puccini, Verdi and and young people in Swindon. Foster.
popular show numbers by Rogers
& Hammerstein and Julian Lloyd-
Webber on 20 August, 7.30pm, at 01793 465700
Bath Road Methodist Church, Old [email protected]
Town. www.swindon.gov.uk
Soprano Louise will be joined by
mezzo soprano Lilly Papaioannou, Above, Tami with Louise. Below, Tami
tenor Paul Curievici, bass baritone with Samantha Cotterill, one a team of
Barnaby Rea and Jennifer Carter friends who organised at ball at Liquid
on piano. & Envy in March which raised £1,300
Earlier this year Tami Brown Photos: Kris Talikowski
from Abbey Meads started a revo- She said, “Louise is an old friend
lutionary and controversial course of mine from Highworth Warneford
of treatment to try and reverse the School; it’s wonderful that she and
damage cancer has caused right her colleagues are willing to put on
across her body by taking high this amazing concert to raise money
levels of pharmacological dose for my treatment. You won’t be
vitamin C by intravenous infusion. disappointed, please come along.”
Tickets are £12 each and £10
concessions (including Warneford
School pupils and teachers past and
present) from Sharon or Phil Lloyd
on 706484 or email: sharon_lloyd@
hotmail.co.uk
• Get a taster of what’s in store on
20 August with Louise covering
the Whitney Houston classic ‘I will
Always Love You’ at http://bit.ly/
tami-opera

Midnight walk raises money for
victims of domestic violence

Supporters and service users of Hometruths, a new Swindon-based
social enterprise dedicated to supporting women and men over the age
of 16 who are victims of domestic violence, took part in the Thamesdown
Rotary Club’s Walkley Midnight Walk on 11 June, to raise money for
their organisation.
“Our aims are to promote survi- is free and confidential so that we
vors’ safety in Swindon & Wiltshire can help sooner and provide valu-
and to set up groups, projects and able support before things escalate.”
services to reduce the risks and One service user said, “after that
levels of harm that individuals first phone call to Hometruths I felt
suffer,” said Kim. so relieved. The understanding and
“Domestic violence survivors support is something you cannot
are amazing people who have to buy or put a price on. When I came
contend with a very controlled off the phone even my new partner
and isolated existence. They live saw the difference in me.”
in fear and confusion, often feeling Hometruths receives funding via
ashamed and guilty. There are many grants and from Swindon Council,
who do not report to the police or as well as through independent
other agencies. Hometruths offers fund-raising efforts, such as the
an opportunity for every survivor Walkley Walk.
to have a voice. It unlocks the truth It has recently secured funding
on domestic abuse through under- for its New Beginnings programme,
standing and supporting people which will launch in September,
with information and advocacy to providing structured support for
increase their safety.” women who have recently left an
“On average, victims of domestic abusive relationship, to realise their
violence will endure 35 incidences own potential within their com-
before they report their circum- munity and family life.
stances to the police, which can feel For more information visit www.
like a very drastic step. Our service hometruths.coop

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