11 Mandeville Place, London, W1U 3AJ
located just off Oxford Street, close to Bond Street tube station

Agenda

• 10.30am – Tea & coffee, followed by the Chair’s welcome
• 11.00am – Open Meeting. Speakers Vanessa Olorenshaw and Joanna Roughton
• 1.00pm – LUNCH
• 2-4pm – AGM

Vanessa is a mother of two, feminist, activist and breastfeeding counsellor who left the law for a life. She was raised in a working class family in Kent, England. Her 2015 pamphlet The Politics of Mothering criticised mainstream UK political parties for undemocratic and consensus policies on childcare and mothers at home. She was a founding member-cum-agitator of the UK Women’s Equality Party and contributor to policy development on parenting. Vanessa believes that there is a need for a revolutionary, progressive, approach to the ‘mother question’ – and wrote Liberating Motherhood to encourage a mother movement to challenge destructive patriarchal and neoliberal policies. She will be speaking at the Open Meeting about what led her write the book and the pamphlet.

We’re delighted that Joanna Roughton has agreed to speak at our Open Meeting in London this year. Jo was formerly Television News Editor for Reuters based in Hong Kong and Singapore, and latterly the Head of Foreign News at Sky News in London. In 2002 she took the decision to become a full-time homemaker to her six children. Through the weekly ‘BeHome’ blog, Jo highlights important issues around ‘Home’ matters, writing about current events that affect the home and people who run it. The ‘BeHome’ blog is a project of the Home Renaissance Foundation (HRF) which aims to highlight the importance of the work of the home as an essential building block of society, leading to a better and healthier society. HRF believes the home is like a business; the better organised it is, the happier everyone will be. But if it’s neglected it will fail to provide the comfort and security that everyone needs. The work of the home needs to be taken seriously and to be properly recognised. Joanna’s blog is for anyone who feels the work of the home is undervalued and should be properly celebrated.

• Tickets – £15.00 (including lunch & refreshments)
• All are welcome – do come and bring a friend
• Babies and children welcome, but no creche provided
• Cost a problem? A reduced rate is available – please ask!

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To book your place, please complete this slip and send, together with a cheque (made payable to Mothers at Home Matter): Lynne Burnham , 31 Earlswood Road, Redhill, Surrey RH1 6HD, 01737 768705. Alternatively, if you wish to pay by bank transfer, please email info@mothersathomematter.co.uk for further details.

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November 10, 2016