The first LGBTQ+ wedding fair in the East Midlands will take place in Lincoln this November, with all suppliers being either allies or in the community themselves.
The All In Love event will be at The Lincoln Hotel on Eastgate between 1pm and 5pm on Sunday, November 6, offering a space for couples from the LGBTQ+ community to plan their wedding or civil ceremony.
Some of the best suppliers in the region will be at the fair, and it is the first time an exclusively LGBTQ+ wedding fair will take place in the East Midlands.
More details for All In Love will be available soon on the event website, as well as on its Instagram page.
It has been organised by Robyn Wood from Perfect Silhouette Hairdressing, an award winning wedding hair stylist who has been a specialist in the industry for more than six years.
She had the idea after attending a seminar about inclusivity, and she discovered the amount of discrimination that can face the community when trying to plan a wedding, so wanted to create a judgement-free space for people to plan in peace.
Robyn Wood at the TWIA Awards, winning a regional wedding hair stylist prize. | Photo: The Wedding Industry Awards
Robyn said: “I attended a virtual seminar in 2020 on how wedding suppliers can be more LGBTQ+ inclusive in the wedding industry and it was from that seminar that the idea was born to hold a wedding fair specifically for the community so they would have a safe space to come and plan their wedding with no assumptions made.
“I strongly believe that everyone should have the same lovely experience planning a wedding as a heterosexual couple would without the worry of coming up against any prejudice or discrimination.
“After doing some research speaking to couples within the community that were planning or had planned a wedding, I was shocked by some of the stories of discrimination they’d come across and 100% of them said they either wouldn’t go to a wedding fair as they would feel uncomfortable or too nervous or they had been to one and they’d felt uncomfortable, like everyone was staring and they didn’t see themselves represented.
“So this fair is very much needed and I cannot wait! I want to make it a success so it’s a win for the LGBTQ+ community and a step in the right direction for the wedding industry.”
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Nominations are open for schools and education settings to be recognised in the 2022 Lincolnshire Education Excellence Awards.
The event is organised by Stonebow Media, publishers of The Lincolnite, to celebrate the best school and teachers in Greater Lincolnshire.
The headline sponsors making the awards possible are Lincoln College Group.
Twelve categories are now open for nominations. The deadline for nominations is June 3, with a judging lunch scheduled for June 7.
Nominations are open from parents, carers, friends, families or education settings themselves, so if you know someone who deserving of winning now is the time to vote!
The awards ceremony will be held at the Engine Shed on July 7.
It’s been a week since the controversial statue of Margaret Thatcher was installed in Grantham’s St Peter’s Hill.
The £300,000 bronze monument immediately caused a stir and debate from both supporters and opponents of the first female Prime Minister of the UK.
Within hours of its 7am installation last Sunday, it had already been egged by a man later revealed to be 59-year-old Jeremy Webster, a deputy director at the Attenborough Arts Centre at the University of Leicester.
Mr Webster’s mother-in-law recently described his actions as “childish”.
Quoted in the MailOnline she said: “Margaret Thatcher lasted a long time in power. She was a trailblazer as the first woman prime minister and she had such energy, even though I know she slept very little.
“I’m very surprised to hear about all of this [egg throwing]. I’m going to have to call my daughter. I wouldn’t have thought Jeremy would be the sort of person to do this. It seems very childish to me – he has a responsible job.”
There have been reports of other antisocial behaviour taking place including people urinating up the statue, but investigations into these are yet to be confirmed by officials.
Away from the statue itself, others took to social media to react to the new monument.
Twitterer @BolsoverBeast thought Mr Webster’s actions should be expanded as a way to… get more people involved?
I think it would be a good idea to put Thatcher’s statue on a low loader and tow it slowly around the country so that we all have a chance to throw something at it. pic.twitter.com/uftMqr0LgR
— Chloe Schlosberg (@ChloeSchlosberg) May 19, 2022
Some called back to the fate of other statues
@Irritatedllama called back to the fate of slave trader Edward Colston who was thrown into the Bristol Harby in June 2020.
It's absolutely disgraceful that people are throwing eggs at the Margaret Thatcher statue in Grantham! We need to deploy a taskforce to give it jolly good wash!#Granthampic.twitter.com/RKftKUls4u
It wasn’t long before a parody account of the statue was set up on Twitter – nor before “she” was interacting with other parody accounts.
It was awful. I could see almost all of Grantham
— That Statue of Thatcher (@thatcher_statue) May 18, 2022
A… positive view?
There were supporters of the statue, however, Darren Grimes from GBNews was one of the few popular posts calling on people not to “give in to threats of petty vandalism”. He later posted the statue should be in parliament – where it was previously rejected from.
I honestly think Margaret Thatcher would have found this first round of petty vandalism of her statue to be utterly hilarious.
The statue looks absolutely glorious.
Almost a decade on from her passing, she’s still winding them up!
Some, like @Jonnyhibberd were more measured in their response.
I don't see a problem with a Thatcher statue and I also don't see a problem with people throwing eggs at it. Thatcher is an important part of our history, and so is what a lot of people thought about her.
— Jonathan Hibberd 🇺🇦 (@Jonnyhibberd) May 18, 2022
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