Artistes
Priscellia 'Pyhia' Robinson
Speaker on Windrush
Formerly a Solicitor Advocate since 2013, Priscellia was called to the UK Bar in 2015 of which now she practises as a Direct Access Barrister of whom can conduct litigation and is Police Station accredited. In 2019, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (United Nations Human Rights) awarded Priscellia Robinson as a UN Fellow alongside receiving UN training in International Human Rights Law. She is the Chair of the Expert UN Fellows Working Group for People of African Descent (EFWGPAD).
While primarily known for her Civil, Human Rights, Environmental, Immigration and Criminal Law practice, she also has substantial experience in cases involving issues of Public Law, Property Disputes, Landlord & Tenant Law, Education Law and Media & Entertainment Law. Priscellia is recognised for her excellent judgement and leadership qualities and not being frightened to tackle novel and difficult areas of law, or to deal head-on with the more complicated aspects of a case.
She provides high-quality advice and advocacy in a wide area of law and has developed a substantial practice with Direct Access Clients and Solicitors. Priscellia has acted on behalf of clients in the Crown Court, High Court, First Tier Tribunals, Upper Tribunals, Administrative Court and The Business and Property Court within the Royal Court of Justice. She can also be instructed upon amicus curiae briefs as an expert at International Courts and Tribunals.
Priscellia is the President and Director of Birthmark of Africa, a Human Rights and Climate Change Research Institute. She is the head researcher in the disciplines of Law, History, Criminology and Sociology. Her specialist areas of research is Human Rights, Climate Change, Environmental Law, Race Disparities, Reparatory Justice, Social Justice, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, the Windrush Generation, Military History, the Ongoing Legacy of the Trans-Atlantic, Trans-Saharan Slave Trade and Colonialism.
Priscellia is one of twelve selected EDI panel trainers upon the Bar Race Working Group of the Bar Council of England and Wales. She can be commissioned for bespoke consultations, projects and training via Birthmark of Africa
- Most Influential People of African Descent (MIPAD), Under 40 (2020)
- United Nations (OHCHR) Human Rights Fellow Award (2019)
Councillor Jenny Gawthrope Wood
Councillor Jenny Gawthrope Wood
Jenny has lived in north Cambridge for many years (first moving here in 1976), latterly with her late husband, former King’s Hedges city councillor and mayor, Nigel Gawthrope.
Jenny was born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire in 1956 on Black Country and Irish parents. Apart from periods working in the Netherlands and nine months based in Hull, and weekly commuting for work, she has lived North of the River since 1979.
Although Jenny had been a petrol pump attendant, bar maid, archives clerk, a classics student, archaeology and museum volunteer – being the first volunteer at the Fitzwilliam Museum – after a one-year secretarial course in Cambridge and hoping to work in IT programming or a similar area, she got a job with a Research Council funded research group at Cambridge University working on historical population and social structure, combining her interest in society and learning how to program, develop and analyse quantitative data.
After adding a sociology and economics A-levels and an OU foundation course, Jenny went to study anthropology at University College London and then an MSc in Medical Demography at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, where she had worked as a research assistant during her degree.
Throughout her working life, Jenny’s main interest has been in social values, evidence-based social policies and public service.
Over the years, Jenny has worked for the Cambridge University both as assistant staff and as a research officer, temped at Addenbrooke’s, worked for the Kings Fund Institute, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, and on EU funded research fellowships on migration and household economy and labour, contemporary household and family structure across the EU, for the EU Dublin Foundation on social exclusion, at Hull University Rowntree project on family breakdown and family assistance, and then at the Office for National Statistics, on population projections, then on modernisation and ONS becoming as independent body, and finally as the ONS Regional Statistician for the East of England.
Jenny served as mayoress in 2018, assisting her late husband as mayor, and for a number of years as treasurer for the Cambridge branch of Parkinson’s UK, before becoming a city councillor where she has served on a range of committees.
She is a strong supporter of volunteer groups and charities and, with her parents needing support and help, for dementia sufferers and for people with Parkinson’s disease. She is a long-term supporter of the Red Hen Project and of homelessness charities in the city and a volunteer director of a local community benevolent society, Reach Community Solar Farm.
She is also a keen diver, plants-woman and a member of Soroptimists International Cambridge, which supports women and girls.
Jenny is looking forward to her mayoral year, finding out about community work across Cambridge and all the organisations and people that make up the city. She is keen to find ways to connect and build bridges with people, partners and communities across the city to help all residents thrive.
Newsong Choir
Choir
Angelina N Muller
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Grace Voices
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Grace Voices’ is the official choir of City of Grace, a parish of the Redeemed Christian Church of God located in Peterborough City, United Kingdom. The group was inaugurated in 2007 when the church was established and has since grown into a large group comprising about 25 members of various disciplines.
Grace Voices released her debut album titled, MY HIDING PLACE, during the church’s 10th anniversary in May 2017. It comprises eleven awesome tracks, all written and composed by members of the choir. The songs on this album have highly inspirational messages with a definite purpose to bless lives and to spread the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.Grace voices has participated in various events across Peterborough such as the Black History month celebration, interfaith festival, Christmas carol at local care homes and many more, bringing light and joy to the community through music.
The Unlimited Dancers
Dance Group
New Song
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Tox
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