What is the White Flower Field Project?
The White Flower Field
Project is an installation of 4000 hand crafted white flowers all made
by local people and crafted from a wide range of weather proof materials
which will be mounted in the town Square in Barnstaple, just outside
the Barnstaple Museum in November 2015. It’s being designed and
assembled by local artist and NDADA supporter Sarah Farrell-Roberts. The
idea is to mimic the amazing field of poppies at the Tower of London last year, but using white flowers which symbolise peace.
Why we’re doing it
• To raise awareness of domestic violence and abuse in our community in the interests of promoting healthy relationships and
• To remember all those women and children who have suffered abuse in their own homes at the hands of those they love
• To remind us all that domestic abuse can happen to anyone regardless of colour, creed or status
• To help break the silence and end the shame
• To raise vital funds to keep our Refuge open- which is the only remaining refuge in the whole of Devon county
Why is it happening now?
This year is the 40th birthday of the North Devon Women’s Refuge run by
North Devon Against Domestic Abuse. In the past 40 years the Refuge has
opened its doors to countless women and children who have been forced
to flee their home, often arriving with nothing, not even a toothbrush.
In Refuge they receive care and support by a specialist domestic abuse
team which starts them on the path to recovering their selfe steem,
their sense of trust and to learn to bear the wounds and scars that
violence and abuse they suffer at the hands of those they love can
cause. They also get help with accumulating the basic possessions they
need to start a new home, together with help finding suitable housing.
Last year all public funding for NDADA’s Refuge in North Devon was
withdrawn. The need for refuge remains as great today as it was 40
years ago. In North Devon over 1200 inquiries to specialist domestic
abuse services are made each year, and 4000 a year in the whole of
Devon, and those are just the people who pick up the phone. The Refuge
now relies on charitable donations to keep its doors open which means we
need to garner public support for our cause.
Why November? To tie
in with National Domestic Violence Awareness Week, and the UN’s
International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and the
November 23rd Petal Launch (which NDADA holds annually) - a moving
ceremony to scatter petals in the Taw in memory of victims of domestic
abuse.
Why 4000 flowers?
Because that is the number of
inquiries received each year by specialist domestic abuse services in
Devon, as well as being an estimate of the number of individuals the
North Devon Refuge has helped over the last 40 years.PLEASE SUPORT THIS PROJECT AS THIS SUBJECT IS VERY CLOSE TO MY WIFE -NO DETAILS AS TOO MUCH FEEDBACK FROM HER DAUGHERS-We're making 4000 handcrafted white flowers for an art installation in
Barnstaple town Square this November to mark 40 years of the Refuge for
women run by North Devon Against Domestic Abuse. This group is for
everyone interested in following our progress or for those who have made
or plan to make flowers for the project. Thanks to everyone who is
helping make this possible!-https://www.facebook.com/groups/975059945879802/permalink/1053944134658049/
Book reading s,TV series transcript s,comedy, personal, Red circle podcast, Book Review s,Interviews, its popcorn for the brain. Blog copyright Mark Antony Raines
Saturday, 10 October 2015
THE BLOB
NO NOT THE B MUSIC CLASSIC BUT A MYSTERY WARM PATCH IN PACFIC SET TO KILL 4,600 SQ MILES OF CORAL REEF THAT AND A UNDER WATER HEATWAVE DURING THIS YEAR SO FAR.5% OF WORLDS TINY CREATURES COULD BE DESTROYED.
FRIGHT NIGHT OUTING.
IF YOU WISH YOU CAN ENTER A COMPETION RUN BY AIRNB .IN THIS COMPETION YOU CAN WIN A TOUR OF PARIS,FRANCE ,CATACOMB,S -PACKED WITH 6 MILLION DEAD 6 FT UNDER CITY,A DINNER SENENRADED BY VIOLINS THEN TOLD GHOST STORIES AND THEN LEFT ALONE UNTILL MORNING AND YOU SHARE THIS WITH ANOTHER PERSON
GIRLS CAN BE JUST A FRIEND.
WHAT WOULD I SAY TO THAT LITTLE LAD WHO RAN AWY FROM SCHOOL AS HAD TO PLAY MARK ANTONY IN PLAY -MY REAL NAME -AND KISS A GIRL - NO WAY MAN.THEN IN LATER YEARS VERY SHY AND FOUND IT VERY DIFFERCULT TO TALK TO FAIRER SEX THROUGH HAVE 3 SISTERS.AS MENTIONED IN PREVIOUS BLOG MANY THOUGHT I WAS GAY- NOT I WOPULD LIKE TO SAY AND NOTING AGAINST IT-THEN I DECIDED I HAD TO GET OUT OF BEING SHY BY BEING MORE UPFRONT AND A BIT OUTRAGIOUS .NOW I HAVE I FEW LADIES I TALK TO-NO FUNNY BUINESS AS I AM HAPPLY MARRIED-WHO I TALK TO WITH NO WORRIES.
WORK HARDER IF DIABETIC?
A STUDY OVER 7 MONTHS LOOKED AT 50 SIGHTLY OVERWEIGHT HEALTHY MEN IN 40,S.HALF WERE IN AT RISK GROUP OF BEING DIABETIC,THERE THEN DID EXERCISE ROUTINES TO LOSE WEIGHT AND WAIST SIZE,ALL 50 DID THIS.THE AT RISK GROUP HAD MORE SESSIONS AND ENERGY TO GET RESULTS.
ANIMALS BACK FROM THE BRINK
FOR THOSE THAT REMEMER THE NUCLEAR PLANT BLAST IN 1986.WELL NOW AT CHERNOBYL WOLF,ELK,BOAR ARE THRIVING.
Gypsie Dawn a interview
what inspired me first was the fact that I KNEW that
there were others in the room with me that I could not see. As a child i
spent a great many niights scared of what I could feel and not see. As I
grew older and became more spiritual, I learned to open myself up more
to what was there, and learned its not as scarry as I had feared it to
be. My goals are to help as many people as I can in connecting with
those that have crossed over. those that are at a crossroads in their
lives and need spiritual advice. I often joke and say I am going to be
the next Sylvia Browne... but really... I just want to be the best me
there is, and help as many people I can. Do the work of the Divine. my
website is gypsiedawn.com
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