Enjoy restorative yoga followed by a delicious vegan tea in the airy studio at Viveka Gardens.
Raise money for a charity supporting people displaced from their motherland by war.
Peace to you, and a prayer for peace in the world.
You don’t have to be a mother or a daughter to come: we honour and have in our thoughts the women and girls and their menfolk caught up in the fallout of the actions of greedy, crass leaders past and present.
When demagogue bullies act out and put the world on a war footing, and good leaders are forced to make hard choices, it’s the displaced and the vulnerable who suffer most (Keir Starmer to carry out largest cut to UK overseas aid in history).
Care4Calais feeds, shelters and welcomes the displaced and vulnerable. They also lobby for all good ways to stop the small boats, not simply criminalising the bereaved and traumatised people in those boats.
Mothering Sunday’s origin is in the practice of people in service in big houses going back to their home town and mother once a year. Quite poignant, and pointing to the rich-poor divide. People who’ve had to leave their home town, their motherland, and maybe their mothers: how will they ever return home?
Why am I doing this fundraiser?Well, first I love to facilitate space for inner rest.
Second, I love to offer a warm welcome and good, tasty, wholesome vegan food.
Third, it’s hard to know how to actively resist the awful actions of terrible world leaders.
I bring together my skills and space and invite you to share in the experience of peace, while raising some funds for people with the skills to serve others on the frontline of sorrow becoming hope.
It’s also a challenge, I hope, to people in this country tempted to hate the stranger, rather than feel compassion, seek understanding and offer hospitality. The current climate risks normalising hate.
Jesus says, “I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me”.