Please join us for our annual NationalHCAW launch event which will be held at Regents Hall, 275 Oxford Street, London W1C 2DJ

Find out more about National Hate Crime Awareness Week here:

https://172430notohatecrime.wordpress.com/vigil/

An Act of Hope and Remembrance for those affected by Hate Crime

The launch event for National Hate Crime Awareness Week, this year focussing on raising awareness of Anti-LGBT+ Hate Crime.

Arrival of guests from 5.30 pm - to be seated by 6 pm.

6pm Diversity Choir - piece one

Welcome Reading

Silence as the National Candle of Hope and Remembrance for those affected by Hate Crime* is lit this year in solidarity with those who have experienced Anti-LGBT+ hate crime.

This year the National Candle is being lit in memory of the 10 people who were featured in the London LGBT+ Advisory Group‘s “Thematic Review of Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Related Murders” which was published in 2007.

• Michael Booth (1942-1990)
• Peter Walker (1948-1993)
• Christopher Dunn (1954-1993)
• Perry Bradley III (1958-1993)
• Andrew Collier (1960-1993)
• Emanuel Spiteri (1951-1993)
• Robyn Browne (1971-1997)
• Jaap Bornkamp (1945-2000)
• Geoffrey Windsor (1945-2002)
• David Ridehalgh (1967-2002)

You can access the report here.

Two short addresses 

• Mark Healey ­ 17­-24-­30 National Hate Crime Awareness Week. 

• Representative 1 

Diversity Choir - piece two

Poetry Reading by Trudy Howson - LGBT+ Poet Laureate

Two short addresses

• Representative 2

• Representative 3.

Prayer and Blessing

Diversity Choir - piece three.

There will be a retiring collection in aid of the anti-hate crime charity 17-24-30 National Hate Crime Awareness Week (1184819).

Or you can make a donation online:

https://172430notohatecrime.wordpress.com/vigil/make-a-donation/

We welcome Statements of Support here:

https://172430notohatecrime.wordpress.com/vigil/appeal-for-statements-of-support/

* After the service the National Candle of Hope and Remembrance for those affected by Hate Crime will be relocated to St Paul's Cathedral where it will be on display for the duration of National Hate Crime Awareness Week #NationalHCAW 2024 (12th-29th October 2024).

The London LGBT+ Advisory Group was founded by representatives from the LGBT+ community following the nail bomb attack against the Admiral Duncan in April 1999 - the forum is 25th years old. You can find out more here.