Beyond the Call presentation

A live presentation of the continuing story of exceptional individuals going beyond the call of routine nursing and putting their lives at risk. Using words, pictures and live theatre.

This presentation-come-performance explores the story of the Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD), largely naive shire girls and vicars’ daughters who’d never done a day’s work and couldn’t even boil an egg. A jolly jape to dress up and become a volunteer nurse turned into the surreal world of mud, blood, lice and mustard gas, a million miles from the Edwardian drawing-room charades they left behind forever. Above all, though, it is the story of quiet, understated heroism, dogged determination in the midst of impossible odds, and the doughty British character hopefully still glimmering somewhere in the darkness.

The living legacy of the Nursing Memorial Appeal is to continue raising funds to support today’s students with a passion for training and research in conflict and humanitarian nursing. Your support will contribute to a permanent link between yesterday’s heroes and tomorrow’s
savers of lives.

Refreshments available to purchase.