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UK Column On Location: Bristol—HOPE Sussex · UK Column Radio

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Speaker 1: A familiar face is about to appear. In response to
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Speaker 1: a recent written question, the Permanent under Secretary for Education,
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Speaker 1: Stephen Morgan said, we cannot ignore the rising numbers of
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Speaker 1: home educated children well and many other things. Indeed, we
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Speaker 1: cannot now somebody who's going to tell us exactly why
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Speaker 1: is Katie J. Murphin and Sadie Single from Hope Sussex.
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Speaker 1: They familiar faces, not just the UK Column audience, but
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Speaker 1: to anyone who's attended any of the events that we
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Speaker 1: have this year and heard the whoops of delight coming
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Speaker 1: from the Hope Sussex stand will provide testament to what
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Speaker 1: it is that they do do in order to foster integrity,
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Speaker 1: resilience and freedom in children. So with a very very
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Speaker 1: important message, please join me in welcoming Hope Sussex. Katie J.
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Speaker 1: Murphin and Sadie Single.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you. We've got one each. Well we've
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Speaker 2: got one sure.
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Speaker 3: Okay, lovely. Can I just start with saying a massive
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Speaker 3: thank you to UK Column for putting this amazing conference on.
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Speaker 2: Can you all give them a.
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Speaker 3: Massive round of a cheers, random of clause and a
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Speaker 3: massive thank you as well for always supporting Hope Sussex
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Speaker 3: and allowing me when I had my segments on the
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Speaker 3: news to promote what we were doing at Hope Sussex,
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Speaker 3: because without you guys attending our events, we cannot carry on.
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Speaker 3: It is that's how we keep going. So Hope Sussex
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Speaker 3: is totally reliant on the attendance of our events and
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Speaker 3: we are super super grateful to UK column. So I'd
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Speaker 3: like to say a massive thank you to start. So
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Speaker 3: we're going to just say a little bit of a
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Speaker 3: background about the two of us. I was born into
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Speaker 3: a rather theatrical family. If you know who my dad is,
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Speaker 3: he's an actor, writer, producer, and I was born with
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Speaker 3: the bug, that's what we call it. I was born
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Speaker 3: to be on stage. That's all I ever wanted to do.
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Speaker 2: Was sing, act and dance.
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Speaker 3: And I was lucky enough that I had incredible support
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Speaker 3: from my family. My dad didn't say to me, no,
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Speaker 3: there's no money in it and it's a horrendous business
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Speaker 3: to go into which it can be. I had full support,
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Speaker 3: and I do think that the reason that I have
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Speaker 3: managed to achieve.
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Speaker 2: The past four years, what we've achieved with.
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Speaker 3: Hope Sussex and in the Freedom movement, is because I've
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Speaker 3: had that incredible support, so I'm hugely grateful to them.
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Speaker 3: I'm also massively grateful to my mum and my mom's
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Speaker 3: side of the family, because they are if you like, awake.
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Speaker 3: So I was born into a family where we used homeopathy. Unfortunately,
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Speaker 3: my mum's brother, age three, died of leukemia, and he
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Speaker 3: developed leukemia only very short period of time after he
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Speaker 3: had had the measles vaccine. So in my family we
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Speaker 3: don't vaccinate at all. And when I was seventeen, my
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Speaker 3: auntie gave me David Iyke to read, and.
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Speaker 2: That was a little bit.
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Speaker 3: Much for my seventeen year old brain to cope with.
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Speaker 3: I'm not gonna lie. I was at dance and drama
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Speaker 3: and performing arts called at that time, and I kind
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Speaker 3: of had my career was on my mind, My passion
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Speaker 3: was on my mind, and.
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Speaker 2: That was performing.
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Speaker 3: So I kind of delved into a little bit, but
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Speaker 3: then went full steam ahead, graduated, went straight into Saturday
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Speaker 3: night Fever and fame and cats, and met my husband
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Speaker 3: and had an amazing career in musical theater and then
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Speaker 3: we had our first child. And it was my homeopath
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Speaker 3: that said to me, you really really need to investigate
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Speaker 3: and study and research vaccinations for yourself. So I did,
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Speaker 3: and I made the choice not to vaccinate. Even though
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Speaker 3: my family didn't vaccinate, I still wanted it to be
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Speaker 3: my choice, my responsibility as a parent. I wanted to
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Speaker 3: know because you when you when you go against the
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Speaker 3: mainstream in in the mainstream pharmaceutical industry and in the hospitals.
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Speaker 3: And I've been there with my son Tommy, you really
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Speaker 3: have to so strong. You have to know that you
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Speaker 3: are doing the right thing, because they will do everything
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Speaker 3: they can in their power to force you into taking
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Speaker 3: the vaccines and making sure that your children are having
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Speaker 3: all of the drugs under the sun. So so yeah,
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Speaker 3: So I was very, very lucky in the fact that
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Speaker 3: I had come from a family where I was encouraged
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Speaker 3: to stand in my power. But I didn't question education.
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Speaker 3: I didn't question it. I just followed what the norm.
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Speaker 3: So my oldest went into school and she had a
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Speaker 3: lovely time at primary school, really loved it. And it
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Speaker 3: wasn't until she's twenty one next year, my oldest, and
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Speaker 3: it wasn't until she was six months into secondary school
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Speaker 3: that I noticed that this really outgoing, self assured she
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Speaker 3: didn't follow any trend she didn't have a mobile phone.
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Speaker 3: She just preferred to be out in nature. And I
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Speaker 3: saw her suddenly, I was like, where's Molly gone.
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Speaker 2: What's happened?
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Speaker 3: She's she's gone all introverted and.
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Speaker 2: She's not she's lost her spark.
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Speaker 3: And something inside me said, I need to get her out.
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Speaker 2: I just need to get her out of school.
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Speaker 3: This there's you know, they're all on TikTok, all the
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Speaker 3: girls are doing all of these selfies, and all she
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Speaker 3: wants to do is just climb trees and rescue sheep from.
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Speaker 2: The from the canal that you know, that's what that was.
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Speaker 3: Her passion was children and animals and and.
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Speaker 2: So she she she.
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Speaker 3: Was pulled out of school and it was the best
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Speaker 3: thing I ever did ever. And it's scary. I'm not
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Speaker 3: going to say it's not scary. I didn't know anybody
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Speaker 3: else who home educated at the time. I just knew
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Speaker 3: that she needed to come out of mainstream education.
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Speaker 2: So we unschooled. She had a.
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Speaker 3: Lovely time climbing trees and doing all the things that
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Speaker 3: she was enjoying at that time. But I did feel
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Speaker 3: isolated and I didn't click with any home ed communities
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Speaker 3: in my area. So Poppy May. My middle daughter finished
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Speaker 3: primary school and I didn't send to secondary. I knew
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Speaker 3: that that was going to never going to be on
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Speaker 3: the cards. And then a year later lockdown was announced
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Speaker 3: and my son was immediately pulled out of school straight away,
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Speaker 3: and I knew that I had to do something really,
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Speaker 3: really drastic, and I had to actually build community. That
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Speaker 3: was it was. It was a message, whatever you want
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Speaker 3: to call it.
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Speaker 2: I had a calling and that was my mission.
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Speaker 3: I didn't know what I was doing, but I had
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Speaker 3: my mum by my side, and I had some fantastic friends,
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Speaker 3: Chris Coverdell being one of those who I know has
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Speaker 3: been on UK column recently, and we set up a
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Speaker 3: community cooperative, which was incredible at that time to have
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Speaker 3: the support network for people who were on their own,
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Speaker 3: who didn't have members of their family, their friends on
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Speaker 3: the same page as them thinking of the same things
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Speaker 3: as they were.
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Speaker 2: They were very isolated.
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Speaker 3: To have a community all of a sudden that they
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Speaker 3: could connect with and they could talk to and they
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Speaker 3: could have support and feel like they.
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Speaker 2: Weren't going mad was.
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Speaker 3: An amazing thing to be a part of. But at
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Speaker 3: the center of that, for me, it was always the children.
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Speaker 3: They were always really the reason why I started that
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Speaker 3: in the first place.
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Speaker 2: And so.
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Speaker 3: I found this site, this amazing, beautiful site in the
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Speaker 3: middle of East Sussex countryside, and I had Sadie by
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Speaker 3: my side, which was incredible, and we started hope. And
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Speaker 3: it's not just us we're up here talking today, but
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Speaker 3: the amount of people that are a part of this project.
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Speaker 3: We're totally indebted to them, aren't we. So that's how
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Speaker 3: I've got to this position today. And I'm going to
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Speaker 3: pass you on to Sadie.
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Speaker 4: Thank you very much. Mine isn't anywhere near as long
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Speaker 4: as that. That is quite amazing, and you're so very
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Speaker 4: lucky you have the most brilliantly supportive family. I'm just
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Speaker 4: going to startly roll it back before I give you
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Speaker 4: my background. Wow, what a day is Everybody having a
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Speaker 4: brilliant time. Just amazing, And thank you to everyone who's
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Speaker 4: still here and for not abandoning us and going into
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Speaker 4: train home. Kudos to you guys. They are still smiling,
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Speaker 4: they're rubbing their lower backs. They've had enough of sitting
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Speaker 4: for this long. I can see it. They all need
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Speaker 4: to get up and move. In case, we should have
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Speaker 4: done a dance routine and got a moving shouldn't we
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Speaker 4: she's a dance teacher. Yeah. I feel like we're in
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Speaker 4: the company of giants. I feel like that when we're
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Speaker 4: at Hope, when we're around all these amazing people that
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Speaker 4: we have around us, who are volunteers, who give everything
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Speaker 4: so freely and beautifully. But honestly, today has been absolutely brilliant.
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Speaker 4: It's very very rare that I'll go somewhere and I
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Speaker 4: leave feeling like, actually, wow, people are actually doing stuff.
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Speaker 4: They're not actually just talking about it in a fancy
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Speaker 4: hotel about what we should be doing, but people who
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Speaker 4: are here actually doing it, and that is amazing, massive,
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Speaker 4: massive credit. I've learned so much today. I am so
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Speaker 4: relieved to hear that there are academics out there in
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Speaker 4: positions who are doing the stuff that needs to be
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Speaker 4: done about propaganda and facing all of that stuff. People
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Speaker 4: who are going and training people going into schools. It's
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Speaker 4: absolutely brilliant what kim Ichwood and those guys are doing,
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Speaker 4: absolutely brilliant.
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Speaker 5: Can we just give them? These people are.
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Speaker 4: Amazing and they deserve our massive love. Honestly, this stuff
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Speaker 4: fuels me, it keeps me going. It's brilliant, But we're
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Speaker 4: here to talk about Hope. Really, my background is I
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Speaker 4: was a primary school teacher for my Shame for eleven years.
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Speaker 4: I love children. I have four of my own with
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Speaker 4: my husband. They are fantastic children. I love them to bits,
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Speaker 4: but I needed to do more. It wasn't just about them,
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Speaker 4: It's about all the children out there that need helping.
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Speaker 4: And when I went on protests during CONVID, I was
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Speaker 4: photographed by the mainstream press.
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Speaker 5: Thank you for doing that.
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Speaker 4: That was amazing because my picture was everywhere, literally sold
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Speaker 4: to all of the tabloids and there was me, my husband,
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Speaker 4: my children and all that banners, and.
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Speaker 5: Of course the school saw it.
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Speaker 4: School weren't too fuss, but the parents had a different idea,
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Speaker 4: so they ran a campaign against me with the whole
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Speaker 4: Facebook page because obviously I wasn't wearing a mask, I
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Speaker 4: wasn't socially distancing. I was going on protests, so that
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Speaker 4: meant I had to go. But it all played into
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Speaker 4: my advantage because that was the moment we removed the children.
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Speaker 4: I met Katie Joe. Literally a week later, Hope was born.
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Speaker 4: It was absolutely meant to be. Don't you feel like
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Speaker 4: that all the time, all of this was meant to be.
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Speaker 4: This is why you are all sitting in this room
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Speaker 4: here now, absolutely, and you're sitting next to brilliant people.
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Speaker 4: Could you just do something please, because I've always.
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Speaker 5: Wanted to do that.
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Speaker 3: They're gonna hate you, goney, you're gonna hate her.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, but I love doing this. He's it's all about
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Speaker 5: the hugs.
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Speaker 4: Can you turn around and out the person sitting next
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Speaker 4: to you because they're brilliant because.
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Speaker 2: Doing it, They're doing it.
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Speaker 4: People at home. I hope you can see this. Everybody
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Speaker 4: is hugging in this room. This is amazing.
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Speaker 5: Woo, I love it.
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Speaker 2: You've got a mugging.
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Speaker 5: We love the hugs.
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Speaker 2: You've got the mugging.
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Speaker 5: Can you feel that vibration raising in the room. How
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Speaker 5: cool is this? Everybody's smiling? I love it. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Come on, if you've ever been to Hope, you'll know
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Speaker 3: that that's all we do.
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Speaker 5: We literally do. We're just still found and hugging constantly. Anybody,
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Speaker 5: anybody who has been to Hope.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Oh that's brilliant, but not good enough.
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Speaker 5: Shame on the rest of you who haven't.
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Speaker 2: Not quite good enough. No, honestly, this side of the
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Speaker 2: room's lacking.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, this song is definitely winning. Sorry, so what is Hope.
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Speaker 4: We are an autonomous community born out to the chaos
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Speaker 4: of this crazy great reset agenda we've been We're now
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Speaker 4: in our four fourth year. Yeah, it's amazing. We didn't
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Speaker 4: think we'd make it past six months, did we.
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Speaker 2: Well, we didn't know what we were doing.
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Speaker 5: Not really, and we didn't have any money.
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Speaker 2: We still don't know.
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Speaker 5: We don't, which is why we're here.
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Speaker 2: We're here to beg.
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Speaker 5: You've got to empty your bullets. We are so yeah,
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Speaker 5: So this is what we are.
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Speaker 4: We're not a community that lived together, but we come
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Speaker 4: together loads to do different events. Primarily we were set
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Speaker 4: up as a home education community. Okay, so we are
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Speaker 4: there Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday with the most brilliant teutors putting
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Speaker 4: on home education classes for all of the community to come.
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Speaker 4: But also about half the people who come don't have
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Speaker 4: home education children.
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Speaker 5: They just want to come for a good lunch if.
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Speaker 4: I'm honest, and a hug and to help in the garden,
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Speaker 4: which were very grateful for absolutely. So we are very diverse,
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Speaker 4: very diverse. We got loads of different people who come,
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Speaker 4: but we we have so much at Hope, so much there.
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Speaker 4: We have an amazing bar in the workshop space with
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Speaker 4: a classroom in it that's for science teaching. We have
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Speaker 4: this amazing organic allotment with two polytunnels growing loads of
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Speaker 4: vegetables that we use in our cooking at Hope. We
15:16
Speaker 4: have a fantastic living classroom with a grass roof that
15:19
Speaker 4: houses four classrooms and a workshop space for parents to
15:23
Speaker 4: use as well. We've got a larger room that we
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Speaker 4: use for as a dance studio and for drama and
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Speaker 4: classes like that.
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Speaker 5: We have.
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Speaker 4: Our Beehive Room, which is used for alternative therapies and treatments.
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Speaker 4: It's a treatment room has two rooms in it that
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Speaker 4: people come and rent out and use for a different
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Speaker 4: alternative therapies. And we have our Lovely Hub, which is
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Speaker 4: where we have a gorgeous wood burner and we provide
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Speaker 4: the food for our community, so it's like our community cafe.
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Speaker 2: And you run great cooking classes in there as well.
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Speaker 5: Sometimes I do, sometimes I do lie. They're not always.
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Speaker 2: Healthy, jam roly Poley's healthy.
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Speaker 5: Right, don't tell anyone that I did that last week.
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Speaker 2: I'm not saying.
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Speaker 3: So.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: So Hope is built on a really core ethos that
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Speaker 4: we still maintain today, and it's built on love, on truth,
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Speaker 4: on integrity, on respect, and on liberty, and that has
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Speaker 4: always been our absolute ethos at Hope. And nobody at
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Speaker 4: Hope is paid. We're both the directors, but we don't
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Speaker 4: take a penny from the project. So every single penny
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Speaker 4: that we make from any of the events we put
16:37
Speaker 4: on is put so directly straight back into the project
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Speaker 4: to keep us going. And that's really really important. We've
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Speaker 4: always maintained that that's how the project will run. But
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Speaker 4: we are there, like I said, primarily for the children.
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Speaker 4: And you're gonna hear a bit more about what Hope provides.
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Speaker 2: Now, Yes, so Hope is what does Hope provide?
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Speaker 5: Well?
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Speaker 2: Like said he said, we are a home.
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Speaker 3: Ultimately, we are a home for our community and for
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Speaker 3: like minded people of all walks of life, all ages.
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Speaker 3: We are incredibly diverse. We have all religions at Hope,
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Speaker 3: all colors, all creeds, and do you know what it works?
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Speaker 2: It works.
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Speaker 3: We even have round earthers and flat earthers and.
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Speaker 2: They get on.
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Speaker 5: No fifths are throne, they get on.
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Speaker 2: Do you know what.
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Speaker 3: We respect each other's spiritualities, We respect each other's choices beliefs,
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Speaker 3: and there's debate, there's lots of lovely interesting conversations, and
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Speaker 3: the children are there to witness this.
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Speaker 2: We've lost that, we've lost that.
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Speaker 3: It's a dying it's a dying thing that we've we've
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Speaker 3: we are we don't have anymore in this country, you know.
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Speaker 3: And if we lose the art of debate, and if
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Speaker 3: we lose the ability to say to each other, I
18:01
Speaker 3: agree to disagree with you, now, let's let's forget about
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Speaker 3: it and get on.
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Speaker 2: We've we've lost the battle.
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Speaker 3: We cannot let them divide us, and we cannot do
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Speaker 3: that to ourselves either.
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Speaker 2: We cannot allow that. So we yeah, So we keep
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Speaker 2: we keep.
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Speaker 3: Our community incredibly diverse, and we yeah, we ultimately run
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Speaker 3: like a community center. So you can hire our space,
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Speaker 3: Our tutors hire the the independent tutors hire the rooms,
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Speaker 3: and our our homeopaths and our therapists hire the space.
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Speaker 3: And then we have our events which are imperative to
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Speaker 3: how we run the project. And we have four branches,
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Speaker 3: if you like. So when we first set Hope Up,
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Speaker 3: we thought what is essential? What do people need to survive?
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Speaker 3: What is essential for us of your water? Clean water?
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Speaker 3: We have a reverse osmosis system in the hub, and
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Speaker 3: we're also looking at other ways where we can actually
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Speaker 3: get water from the land, so boreholes and all sorts
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Speaker 3: of things like that are in the making at Hope.
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Speaker 3: Food it's top of the list, right, there's a war
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Speaker 3: on food, in case you didn't know.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so what do we do.
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Speaker 3: We take the power back and we grow our own
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Speaker 3: And I'm sure lots of you are involved with allotments
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Speaker 3: and you maybe have have your own little allotments at home,
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Speaker 3: and I can't.
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Speaker 2: Stress how important that is.
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Speaker 3: You know, if they control the food supply, they control us, right,
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Speaker 3: So we have to take the power back. And we
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Speaker 3: are incredibly lucky that we have the land.
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Speaker 2: At Hope to grow our own food.
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Speaker 3: And we have a wonderful little group of garden fairies
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Speaker 3: we call them, that tend to our allotment. And we're
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Speaker 3: encouraging the children to look at that as well, to
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Speaker 3: look at how their food is grown, how it's harvested,
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Speaker 3: and then how it's cooked and how and how the
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Speaker 3: whole process is, you know, nurturing the food that you eat,
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Speaker 3: being appreciative of that food rather than just going into
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Speaker 3: the supermarket and buying it and not even thinking about it.
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Speaker 3: Being conscious and then health. We've got to take responsibility
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Speaker 3: for our health. We cannot allow them to be in
20:35
Speaker 3: total control of how we actually we have to stay autonomous,
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Speaker 3: right and we have incredible therapists at Hope, they really
20:47
Speaker 3: are And we have the Wonderful PHA. Has everybody heard
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Speaker 3: of the Pha? The Wonderful Pha have run a monthly
20:54
Speaker 3: low cost clinic at Hope.
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Speaker 2: So we are taking responsibility for our own health, which
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Speaker 2: is incredibly important.
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Speaker 3: We have a place to meet, so that's our community
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Speaker 3: is events, and then we have the education side. So
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Speaker 3: health wise, we have the beehive, which is beautiful, it's
21:17
Speaker 3: really stunning. We are hoping as well that we together
21:21
Speaker 3: as a community, are going to buy one of Clive
21:24
Speaker 3: de KRL's magic chairs. Put your hand up if you've
21:27
Speaker 3: been in Cli Male's magic chair, Oh my goodness. There's
21:32
Speaker 3: a lot of people that haven't been in the magic chair.
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Speaker 3: It really is magic. So this is something it's the
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Speaker 3: future of healing, vibration frequency and so yes, so we're
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Speaker 3: going to invest massively into our health, educating each other
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Speaker 3: and making sure that it's affordable as affordable as possible
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Speaker 3: so that people don't have to rely on the.
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Speaker 2: Health care system.
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Speaker 3: I mean it would be wonderful, wouldn't it if we
22:03
Speaker 3: had holistic hospitals, Because let's face it, if I was
22:08
Speaker 3: in a car accident, I'd go to A and E.
22:10
Speaker 2: I wouldn't go to my homeopath.
22:12
Speaker 3: We do need them, but it's just such a sadness
22:17
Speaker 3: that we don't have the healthcare system that we all deserve.
22:22
Speaker 3: You know, we have a healthcare system instead that is
22:24
Speaker 3: run by drugs pushers, really glorified yeah, drug dealers at
22:32
Speaker 3: the end of the day. And so it's up to
22:35
Speaker 3: us really now to create everything in this new Earth.
22:39
Speaker 2: It's up to us.
22:40
Speaker 3: So, yes, So we have low cost treatments, and we
22:45
Speaker 3: also have different therapies like crystal therapy, meditation sessions and
22:51
Speaker 3: these are all available to the children as well, because
22:54
Speaker 3: we have to be healthy mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
23:00
Speaker 3: All all of those areas have to be healthy. So
23:04
Speaker 3: it's a it's top of the list for us. If
23:06
Speaker 3: we're not healthy, we can't fight this fight and stay strong.
23:11
Speaker 3: And it's relentless, right, It's been a relentless five years,
23:14
Speaker 3: hasn't it. So it's top of the list. Here go,
23:18
Speaker 3: I'm going to pass you over to Sadie for food.
23:21
Speaker 5: Okay, thank you. So the attack on our food is
23:25
Speaker 5: genuinely real.
23:26
Speaker 2: We know this.
23:27
Speaker 4: We've got we had farmers here. We know we've got
23:29
Speaker 4: farmers here who are meeting earlier. And I've spoken to
23:32
Speaker 4: the farmer that has the fields next to Hope that
23:35
Speaker 4: we use regularly, and you know, he's genuinely concerned about
23:38
Speaker 4: what's going on with farming. He said that the grass
23:41
Speaker 4: that they've cut ready for the winter feed the animals
23:45
Speaker 4: is really really weak. It's low in sugar, it's got
23:48
Speaker 4: it hasn't got any any of the nutrients that it
23:51
Speaker 4: normally has. So he said that he's going to be
23:53
Speaker 4: buying in feed. They've already been told it's going to
23:55
Speaker 4: be it's going to be rationed the feed for the animals.
23:59
Speaker 4: And so we know that this is coming. So again
24:02
Speaker 4: it's constant. You're hearing it all the time. You know that,
24:06
Speaker 4: you know food shortages are coming.
24:08
Speaker 5: If you're like me, who's got who's got a store
24:13
Speaker 5: of food.
24:14
Speaker 4: In their house with loads of tins that are rusting
24:18
Speaker 4: and you can't no longer read the used by all
24:21
Speaker 4: the best before day on them, and you've got no
24:24
Speaker 4: way of knowing really what half of them are on
24:26
Speaker 4: because most of the labels have kind of disintegrated and
24:28
Speaker 4: fallen off.
24:29
Speaker 5: That's my house, that's my house. I've got stash.
24:32
Speaker 3: You're not going to get that if you come to
24:33
Speaker 3: Hope though. Food at Hope, that's just that. Don't go
24:40
Speaker 3: around to sadies.
24:41
Speaker 4: Don't come around my house for food shortages. You'll get tinder.
24:44
Speaker 4: You don't know what's in them. Yeah, but honestly, we've
24:47
Speaker 4: heard this for so long, haven't we. We've always hear this,
24:50
Speaker 4: you know, food shortages coming, everybody's stock up. But genuinely,
24:55
Speaker 4: I think there really is something you know, on the horizon,
24:58
Speaker 4: and this, you know, on people growing their own food
25:01
Speaker 4: is going on.
25:02
Speaker 5: Oh I Hope.
25:02
Speaker 4: You've all registered your chickens. Yeah, no, we haven't got chickens.
25:09
Speaker 4: But we're going to get them now, aren't we, Just
25:10
Speaker 4: so we so register them. Yeah, I mean unreal, really,
25:16
Speaker 4: but this is what they're doing. We know, this is
25:18
Speaker 4: what they're doing. And you know, again, it's just about
25:20
Speaker 4: being one step ahead, isn't it all the time, So
25:23
Speaker 4: it's not a shock when it comes. So Hope is
25:27
Speaker 4: actually all about good food. We love good food at
25:30
Speaker 4: Hope and during the week when we're open for our
25:34
Speaker 4: home ed sessions. We provide three really affordable, nutritious hot
25:38
Speaker 4: meals over those three days. And you know, it's about
25:43
Speaker 4: as a community, it's about eating together and that's really important.
25:47
Speaker 5: And yeah, we really strongly believe in that. And it's it's.
25:51
Speaker 2: Kitchen is the place to be, isn't it? The blubs?
25:54
Speaker 5: Absolutely, it's the hub.
25:55
Speaker 4: And so you know at a party, it's the same,
25:58
Speaker 4: it's no different, is it a Hope So yeah, absolutely,
26:02
Speaker 4: So the children and the parents that come all eat
26:04
Speaker 4: together and that's really lovely and we have it incorporated
26:07
Speaker 4: pretty much in every event that we run. If you
26:09
Speaker 4: come to our Hope Freedom Music Festival that we hold
26:12
Speaker 4: on the August Bank holiday weekend, it's all about good food.
26:16
Speaker 4: And the feedback we get every year is that the
26:17
Speaker 4: food just keeps getting better and better. We do it all,
26:21
Speaker 4: you know, and it's just brilliant. We have the best
26:24
Speaker 4: people that come and help us with that. So education,
26:28
Speaker 4: I hope, is linked as much as we can to
26:30
Speaker 4: good food. And you didn't hear it from KTJO that
26:34
Speaker 4: last week I had nineteen children making jam rollie pollies.
26:38
Speaker 4: That didn't happen at all, but I was trying to
26:41
Speaker 4: teach them different ways of cooking, so it was about
26:44
Speaker 4: steaming food and you know, like a bit like old
26:47
Speaker 4: fashioned ways. So it was all about that and using
26:49
Speaker 4: suet and things that we wouldn't normally use and they
26:52
Speaker 4: loved it.
26:53
Speaker 5: It was great. It was really fun. But we don't.
26:55
Speaker 4: Always do, you know, unhealthy stuff. Most of the time
26:58
Speaker 4: I try and do healthy stuff. But yeah, it's it's
27:00
Speaker 4: all about. The volunteers in our garden are amazing. They
27:04
Speaker 4: come regularly and help produce this most incredible food in
27:07
Speaker 4: our allotments and we really couldn't do it without them.
27:10
Speaker 4: In fact, we were at Hope for a good eight
27:12
Speaker 4: nine months before any food started growing because we just
27:15
Speaker 4: didn't have the time to do it until amazing garden
27:18
Speaker 4: fairies turned up and said we'll help you. And it's
27:20
Speaker 4: one of those things that's constantly expanding. We know we
27:23
Speaker 4: need to do more, we know we need more animals,
27:26
Speaker 4: we need to have goats and things as well, and
27:28
Speaker 4: eventually that will come.
27:30
Speaker 5: We know it will so over to you.
27:33
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
27:34
Speaker 3: Third branch is events and community and there's the gorgeous
27:38
Speaker 3: soom Tea.
27:40
Speaker 2: What an incredible woman.
27:41
Speaker 3: She headlined our festival this year and she's coming back
27:45
Speaker 3: next year, so if you missed it, do come and
27:47
Speaker 3: see it this year next year. Twenty twenty five, after
27:52
Speaker 3: the first year of running Hope, we had our first
27:56
Speaker 3: music festival that summer and realized that they were going
28:01
Speaker 3: to be the way we were going to keep the
28:04
Speaker 3: project going. As I say, when we first started Hope,
28:06
Speaker 3: we didn't know what we were doing.
28:07
Speaker 2: And that's what I'm hoping.
28:08
Speaker 3: It's going to inspire other people to just have a
28:12
Speaker 3: go and just do it and not think twice about
28:14
Speaker 3: it and not go, oh, I don't know how we're
28:16
Speaker 3: going to do it or whatever, got the money or
28:19
Speaker 3: it's just something you've just got to do. And so
28:23
Speaker 3: we didn't know what we were doing, you know, and
28:25
Speaker 3: we're here still going. So we realized that the events
28:30
Speaker 3: were going to bring the money in and our music
28:33
Speaker 3: event is going to be.
28:34
Speaker 2: Our biggest event.
28:35
Speaker 3: It's obviously in the summer, so we can hold it
28:38
Speaker 3: for good three four days. And we have gained such
28:43
Speaker 3: incredible support from beautiful artists that have kept their integrity
28:48
Speaker 3: throughout this whole last five years. And that was another
28:51
Speaker 3: reason why we wanted to hold events as well, was
28:54
Speaker 3: to give people that were singing the song of freedom
28:58
Speaker 3: and speaking the words of truth a platform and we
29:03
Speaker 3: will continue to do that.
29:04
Speaker 2: We won't ever censor people.
29:06
Speaker 3: You will always be able to stand at Hope Sussex
29:08
Speaker 3: and speak your truth. So events, and it's not just
29:13
Speaker 3: for that reason as well, it's for bringing people together.
29:16
Speaker 3: How wonderful does it feel when you're together with light
29:18
Speaker 3: minded people. It raises the vibration so unbelievably high and
29:25
Speaker 3: you can't buy that.
29:27
Speaker 2: You can't buy that feeling. You can't, you just can't.
29:30
Speaker 3: It's something that occurs naturally when you are all together
29:35
Speaker 3: and you know that you are all there coming from
29:38
Speaker 3: the heart, and it's this very special feeling. So if
29:43
Speaker 3: you haven't been to Hope, then you do need to
29:44
Speaker 3: come and experience that. But we have comedy, we have
29:47
Speaker 3: a regular summer of Fate, we have a Christmas market.
29:51
Speaker 3: Literally nearly every single weekend we have something coming on
29:53
Speaker 3: at Hope. And again big up to our volunteers because
29:57
Speaker 3: we couldn't do it without them. Everybody who runs the
30:00
Speaker 3: events that Hope is a volunteer. So we are super
30:03
Speaker 3: grateful to all those wonderful people in our community.
30:08
Speaker 4: Thank you, and ultimately it's all about the children, and
30:18
Speaker 4: for me, particularly as an ex primary school teacher, it's
30:22
Speaker 4: all about getting children out of the mainstream education system,
30:25
Speaker 4: which I feel has failed our children for a very, very,
30:30
Speaker 4: very long time. We wouldn't have the situation be in
30:33
Speaker 4: the situation we are now if it really wasn't for
30:36
Speaker 4: the school system and what they've done to our children.
30:40
Speaker 4: I am so very angry at the whole school system.
30:43
Speaker 4: I really am, and I still speak to occasionally to
30:47
Speaker 4: teachers who are in there. They're still in there, bless them,
30:51
Speaker 4: and they're trying to make changes from within. But I
30:54
Speaker 4: really believe it has absolutely it's gone, and ultimately I'm
30:59
Speaker 4: now at a point where I think it is literally
31:01
Speaker 4: a sausage factory. I think it's about getting all the
31:04
Speaker 4: children to the same level, regardless of which they came in.
31:07
Speaker 4: It's about holding children back, making sure they're all at
31:09
Speaker 4: the same point.
31:11
Speaker 5: It is a brainwashing tool. It is.
31:14
Speaker 4: It is based on a curriculum that has been written
31:17
Speaker 4: by whatever government is in at the time, and that
31:21
Speaker 4: is just filling the children's heads with whatever that government
31:24
Speaker 4: deems fit. And as a parent, you are ultimately handing
31:27
Speaker 4: over the teaching of your child and what your child
31:32
Speaker 4: thinks to the state, and that is it. And there's
31:36
Speaker 4: really nothing more that can be said about it. And
31:38
Speaker 4: I think that as awakened adults and grandparents and parents,
31:46
Speaker 4: we all have a duty to safeguard and protect those
31:49
Speaker 4: children from the state having our children and filling their
31:53
Speaker 4: heads with the absolute nonsense that goes on in schools.
31:58
Speaker 4: I really, I feel so very very strongly about it.
32:02
Speaker 4: If you look at the school system, it hasn't really
32:04
Speaker 4: changed since the Education Act. It's one hundred and forty
32:06
Speaker 4: four years ago.
32:07
Speaker 2: Did he Rockefeller?
32:09
Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly what did he want? A nation of workers? Workers, yes, yes.
32:15
Speaker 3: Not thinkers no, no, not critical thinkers, no slaves, people.
32:20
Speaker 4: Who would follow instruction, you know, back as they went
32:24
Speaker 4: into the workplace. And when you look at actual teaching
32:29
Speaker 4: time in school, it sits around and its independent studies
32:32
Speaker 4: would be done. It sits at around one and a
32:34
Speaker 4: half hours of actual teaching in a school day. So
32:38
Speaker 4: for the best part of a child's day, they're sat
32:40
Speaker 4: in a classroom away from their family, probably having a
32:45
Speaker 4: little bit of teaching. Most of the time, it's having
32:47
Speaker 4: to listen to the teacher, giving instructions and managing behavior
32:52
Speaker 4: and doing other organizational tasks, but it's not actually what
32:56
Speaker 4: the child needs, okay. So it's very concerning that, you know,
33:03
Speaker 4: so many people I speak to and we get to
33:06
Speaker 4: speak to still believe in this system to a point
33:10
Speaker 4: where they're prepared to send their children off every day.
33:12
Speaker 4: And I absolutely know that home education isn't always the
33:17
Speaker 4: easy path for people to take. I know that people
33:20
Speaker 4: need to work, and I absolutely understand that, but there
33:23
Speaker 4: comes a point where we have to decide what is
33:26
Speaker 4: more important here, okay. And there are lots and lots
33:31
Speaker 4: of families that we have supported to try and find
33:34
Speaker 4: ways around their work so that they can come and
33:38
Speaker 4: bring their children and be supported in their home education journey.
33:42
Speaker 4: And it is possible, it is definitely possible to do.
33:47
Speaker 4: The rise of home education is massive, absolutely massive, Okay.
33:52
Speaker 4: There's been particularly in the southeast of England where we
33:55
Speaker 4: are seeing the biggest rise in home education home education
33:59
Speaker 4: family across the entire country, but it is massive increase.
34:04
Speaker 4: I tried to find statistics on it, and I don't
34:06
Speaker 4: believe them. Frankly, the ones I saw, I was like, no,
34:10
Speaker 4: there's more than that. Absolutely they reckon. It's something like
34:12
Speaker 4: nine hundred thousand something like that or ninety that. I
34:16
Speaker 4: can't remember now, anyway, it's not it doesn't sound very many.
34:19
Speaker 4: And I'm like, that's not right. There's more than that.
34:21
Speaker 4: I think it's like ninety thousand fact children, and I
34:24
Speaker 4: think there's no, there's loads more than that.
34:27
Speaker 3: So we get families all the time, literally every week,
34:30
Speaker 3: even if they've not taken their kids out, they're desperate to.
34:35
Speaker 2: And the thing is is what are they being taught?
34:36
Speaker 3: As you said, they're not, They're being their brains are
34:39
Speaker 3: being filled with absolute nonsense. How much of what you
34:42
Speaker 3: learned in school?
34:43
Speaker 2: Really?
34:44
Speaker 1: Do you use.
34:48
Speaker 5: Algebra?
34:51
Speaker 3: No?
34:52
Speaker 2: You don't. No, they and do you know what? Children?
34:56
Speaker 3: And we are in full support of the Smartphone Free
35:00
Speaker 3: Childhood campaign.
35:02
Speaker 2: Full support at Hope.
35:03
Speaker 3: Absolutely what a fantastic campaign, because not only do our
35:07
Speaker 3: children now have twelve hours.
35:12
Speaker 2: Or whatever it is, sorry, not twelve hours, twelve years.
35:14
Speaker 3: Of their childhood nine to four pm a day, they
35:20
Speaker 3: are then every single spare little moment they have they're
35:23
Speaker 3: on that phone. They don't have any space or stillness
35:27
Speaker 3: in their life to think, just to ponder, you know,
35:31
Speaker 3: And that's where creativity comes from and wisdom. Wisdom is
35:36
Speaker 3: found within. You can't teach it. You can't teach wisdom
35:41
Speaker 3: and knowledge. You can teach beliefs. But our children desperately
35:47
Speaker 3: need to be saved from this. So I urge everybody
35:52
Speaker 3: to get behind that campaign massively. Hope is well behind that.
35:57
Speaker 3: We our children are desperately under attack.
35:59
Speaker 2: From those art phones.
36:01
Speaker 3: They aren't smart, yes, small little computers traveling around with them,
36:07
Speaker 3: and they don't have the capacity to cope with it.
36:12
Speaker 5: But I do think that the smartphone, this whole push
36:16
Speaker 5: of smartphones and apps on young children and what's happening
36:19
Speaker 5: in schools is a deliberate attack. I do.
36:22
Speaker 4: I think it is a deliberate tack to split the family.
36:25
Speaker 4: It's to try and divide children from their family. And
36:28
Speaker 4: I can't believe I'm going to quote her, but Lady Hale,
36:31
Speaker 4: the former President of the Supreme Court in the UK.
36:35
Speaker 4: She said, in a totalitarian society, uniformity and conformity are valued.
36:41
Speaker 4: Hence the totalitarian state tries to separate the child from
36:45
Speaker 4: her family and mold her to its own design, which
36:49
Speaker 4: is exactly what school system is doing. Is exactly what
36:54
Speaker 4: mobile phones are doing as well. So despite home education
36:58
Speaker 4: being massively under attack, despite the fact that we know
37:01
Speaker 4: Starma wants to bring in and has been pushing for
37:04
Speaker 4: heavily a register of home educated children, HOPE will absolutely
37:09
Speaker 4: stand and draw a line that we will in absolutely
37:13
Speaker 4: no way could tell to any of that pressure from
37:16
Speaker 4: the state system.
37:17
Speaker 3: We've had it before, but we've had police, we've had
37:21
Speaker 3: Offsted turn up. They are not welcome, they are not
37:25
Speaker 3: allowed on we are private property.
37:29
Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely, And you don't need to be a teacher
37:31
Speaker 5: to home educate at all. That's the thing.
37:33
Speaker 4: And you don't need to be able to replicate school.
37:35
Speaker 4: You need to be able to follow your child's interests,
37:38
Speaker 4: foster them, you know, making sure they're socialized, which is
37:42
Speaker 4: one of the reasons why we have HOPE and it's
37:44
Speaker 4: our due to duty to foster that love of learning.
37:47
Speaker 4: My goodness, how many children do you meet who come
37:49
Speaker 4: out of school and they're so bored, they're done, they
37:52
Speaker 4: don't want to read a book, they don't want to
37:54
Speaker 4: do anything.
37:54
Speaker 5: They've had enough. That is absolutely not what we want.
37:58
Speaker 4: Our children to be like. We need our children to
38:00
Speaker 4: be passionate. They need to go out and be and
38:02
Speaker 4: change the world and make it better.
38:05
Speaker 2: We want them to be excited, passionate about.
38:08
Speaker 4: Learning, absolutely, so at Hope we offer something different. We
38:13
Speaker 4: offer critical thinking, we offer problem solving, resilience, practical skills,
38:18
Speaker 4: trivium and so many different creative classes. Plus we have
38:23
Speaker 4: the maths and the English economics history. I teach GCS sociology,
38:28
Speaker 4: but not taught through a woke perspective at all. And
38:32
Speaker 4: I am very proud to say as I end this
38:34
Speaker 4: whole section on children education, that we have at Hope
38:38
Speaker 4: a GCC pass rate for those who do choose to
38:40
Speaker 4: go down that route. We have a pass around one
38:42
Speaker 4: hundred percent at Hope. That's down to our amazing teators.
38:46
Speaker 2: Thank you here.
38:49
Speaker 3: So we've run out of time, but we would love
38:53
Speaker 3: to let you know very quickly that we have big
38:56
Speaker 3: plans at Hope. We would like to expand we would
39:01
Speaker 3: like a recording studio. We would love a multi functional,
39:07
Speaker 3: multi purpose indoor facility for everything under the sun, from
39:12
Speaker 3: comedy to indore, roller skating discos to everything you can imagine.
39:18
Speaker 2: And so please do.
39:19
Speaker 3: Watch this place, please support us, because we have big,
39:22
Speaker 3: big dreams and big big hopes for the future.
39:25
Speaker 2: It's going to be a very very positive one. I
39:27
Speaker 2: can feel it.
39:30
Speaker 4: Okay, before we go, we'd like to play our short
39:32
Speaker 4: video if that's okay.
39:35
Speaker 5: So the world does need more Hope.
39:36
Speaker 4: We've got a one minute video we'd like to play
39:38
Speaker 4: and hope it's going to work. But we do, we
39:41
Speaker 4: absolutely do need your help. Hope is here. We're not
39:45
Speaker 4: going away. We've stuck it out for three years.
39:49
Speaker 3: Hope Sussex community has witnessed firsthand the positive effect community
39:53
Speaker 3: home education can have on children and their families, and
39:57
Speaker 3: it is wondrous. Our mission is to say port in
40:00
Speaker 3: heance and guide freedom loving families through the empowering and
40:04
Speaker 3: rewarding world of home education. Sessions with tutors start at
40:09
Speaker 3: the incredibly affordable price of just five pounds fifty an
40:12
Speaker 3: hour and run all day Monday to Wednesday. The groups
40:15
Speaker 3: are small and as home educators, you can book directly
40:18
Speaker 3: with our independent tutors, attending as many sessions as you.
40:22
Speaker 2: Like out of the wide range of subjects on offer.
40:25
Speaker 3: As we now begin the fourth year of our journey,
40:28
Speaker 3: our legacy is already taking shape, with children that have
40:31
Speaker 3: previously attended Hope now flourishing at college as critically thinking, compassionate, creative,
40:37
Speaker 3: confident and resilient young adults.
40:40
Speaker 2: At Hope. We are incredibly proud.
40:42
Speaker 3: Of what we have achieved and extremely excited to be
40:45
Speaker 3: creating the reality we want a life and world full
40:49
Speaker 3: of love, truth, integrity and freedom.
41:11
Speaker 1: You too, That's fantastic, kat Joe and Sadie. That was
41:16
Speaker 1: an absolute sort of tornado of energy. Thank you so much.
41:21
Speaker 1: It really was fantastic, and I dare say that it
41:24
Speaker 1: will have inspired a lot of people here. We all
41:26
Speaker 1: know children, and we all appreciate the enormous importance of
41:31
Speaker 1: investing in them because they really are the future. And
41:33
Speaker 1: that is a theme that has run throughout today quite rightly.
41:36
Speaker 1: So Hope Sussex, I really would encourage you to get
41:40
Speaker 1: amongst it. If you do go to any of the
41:41
Speaker 1: events that they run, it is completely unforgettable. So please
41:45
Speaker 1: do make sure that you tune into that, and I
41:48
Speaker 1: hope we'll see lots more from them in future. Katie,
41:52
Speaker 1: Joe and Sadie, thank you so much.