Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Thank you for the video diary - powerfully personal and rightly completely respectful of others' privacy.

This is to acknowledge that yesterday, at CH Horsham, around 50 people gathered for Lost Voices Heard with a further 10 on zoom from around the world. Enormous privilege to be there and help to facilitate the day for an awesome, to quote Dr Nina Burrowes, assembly of Old Blues, parents, allies and ...

May I make a gentle reminder on this discussion trail as well as the Lost Voices posting. If anyone is planning to come to the Lost Voices Heard event on Fri 30th May then PLEASE could you complete the registration with me by 23rd April. This gives me time to get info out to you and check dietry ...

May I make a gentle reminder. If anyone is planning to come to the Lost Voices Heard event on Fri 30th May then PLEASE could you complete the registration with me by 23rd April. This gives me time to get info out to you and check dietry/travel/access things. Thanks so much .

a) Here's the link to ...

May I use this Reply as a reminder...

Firstly may I wish you all the healthiest 2025 possible with plenty of friendship.

As you will know I am working with colleagues towards the Lost Voices Heard event at CH on Fri 30th May. There are four main aims with the day:
* to offer an acknowledgment of ...

Thank you for the very helpful reflections on terminology. The trauma/pain continues - some find perspective and maybe even closure, but for most as far as I can see it is abuse which lives in the present, although it may have been first perpetrated in the past. I hope what Rob, Lia & Hilary as ...

Rob Totterdell has asked me to post the following on his behalf:

"Nell, Please be reassured I am investigating the whereabouts of Dobbie and notifying the Catholic Church"

Rob is currently in hospital recovering from a stroke, learning to walk again a bit but with full marbles intact. He is meant ...

We, as Old Blues, would like to invite you to join us in person (or partly on Zoom) on Friday 30 May 2025, 10.30am to 4.30pm, at Christ’s Hospital for an event we are carefully developing. Over the last three years – as the culmination of seven years of liaison between CH and Old Blues and a ...

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I am trying to track any family of Edgar who may still be alive. He was MaA and then LaA 69-76. Went on to train with London Contemporary Dance School after playing Cain and being part of so many productions.

He died in London in 1993. His family home (Mother Doreen nee Hinchliffe, Father Peter ...

Too little too late and how do you ask for support???


Chris, I'm not sure whether you have had a direct answer to this but Julie Wilson at BSB, the independent charity offering support and guidance/signposting to support is the person to go to. https://bluessupportingblues.com/ is the website ...

Rob - I have also sent him a message on another platform. Hopefully this request will reach Mr Cowley. In case you see it here my email is chris@chrisgrady.org and I am seeking to support Rob on this ongoing work.

The School is not considering a time-line or time-out. Us small group of allies and survivors are working to put in place longterm available support services as needed. We are aware that a victim may take many years/decades to decide it is right for them to seek help. The Support Service will be ...

On Fri 6th Dec many of us are gathering to celebrate the creation of the theatre and the drama department. If you haven't heard about it yet and are interested in being there please complete the google form link here https://forms.gle/BFo5vo6X926b9mjK7
I will then give you more details and a ...

On Fri Dec 6th a heap of us will join Duncan Noel Paton and guests at the Theatre to celebrate 50 years (and a little bit) since the start of the drama dept. We will watch the Senior School Play (whatever title it may be) and explore some memories and archives. If you were involved with Indians ...

I've been wanting to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Drama Department in Sept 1972 and our time making plays/epics in Big School/Theatre with Duncan Noel-Paton. Although we are a year or so late, I want to see whether we can get a gathering together in March 2024 before we are ...