Lords, MP's and Attorney General
What a day we had on Wednesday! We had a great opportunity to share the vision of ROC with some influential people.
ROC Ambassador Barry Knott, from Kent Police, and I arrived at Portcullis House at 2pm and then we had back to back meetings until 7pm!
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We met MP’s, from all over the UK including Romford, Enfield, Salisbury, Bury, and Barry’s own MP from Maidstone, Helen Grant.
One MP had some specific influence in Northern Ireland which will aid our launch there on May 9th. We met the Attorney General (his constituency is Beaconsfield) and followed his meeting with a chat with a few staff from the Home Office, and finally over to the House of Lords to meet with Lord Nat Wei and Baroness Berridge, the youngest female member of the House of Lords.
It was inspiring to meet such interesting people, as well as to get some great feedback about our work. I also loved seeing St Mary’s Crypt, where prayers are said each day before parliament meets. The Chapel of St Mary Undercroft was completed by King Edward I in 1297, further developed under Edward II, and finally completed by Edward III in around 1365. While St Stephen's Chapel was the chapel of the Royal Family, the Court and the Royal Household worshipped at St Mary Undercroft. Because of its underground location, the Crypt Chapel was one of the few structures in the Palace of Westminster to survive the great fire of 1834, although much of its stonework was harmed. The Chapel is still in use today, chiefly by MPs and their families for weddings and christenings.*
It was a day which has really helped to shape my thinking about our work and how ROC can be instrumental in transforming more communities across the UK.
* http://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/building/palace/estatehistory/the-middle-ages/chapel-st-mary-undercroft-/
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