Baroness Cox
speaks out!

7.30pm Saturday 18 October 2003

The Corn Hall, Market Place, Cirencester

Churches Together in Cirencester is delighted that Baroness Caroline Cox will be the keynote speaker at our Autumn “Evening of Inspiration and Challenge”. The Christians of the town and district have arranged the evening; it is free and open to all.
 
Baroness Cox is a member of the House of Lords, and also President of the Trustees of Christian Solidarity Worldwide - see their web site www.csw.org.uk for more information.
 
Baroness Cox is a politician who does more than just talk – she gets involved with the poor and the marginalised, often at great personal cost.
 
We know that Baroness Cox will challenge us deeply to think about those in the world who are less fortunate than ourselves.  There will be an opportunity on the evening to make a gift to support her work.
 
We hope too, that Baroness Cox will inspire us as Christians together in Cirencester and district, to work more closely together in helping the Gospel to be experienced by those who are marginalised in our own society.   

Follow-up
 
To this end there will be a follow-up meeting at Cirencester Baptist Church on Monday 10 November at 7.30 pm.   Entitled “Living Loud in Cirencester” this meeting will provide an open forum for those who wish to respond to the challenge to take this forward practically.

 

Baroness Cox was created a Life Peer in 1982 and has been a deputy speaker of the House of Lords since 1985. She has strong links with education and health care. She was formerly Head of the Sociology Department at the Polytechnic (now University) of North London; and Director of the Nursing Education Research Unit, Chelsea College, University of London.
She is Chancellor of Bournemouth University; a Vice President of the Royal College of Nursing; President of the Institute of Administrative Management, and served on the Board of the Teacher Training Agency as well as its Research and Quality committees. She is an Honorary Fellow of the University of Westminster, the City and Guilds of London Institute and the University of Luton.

She is heavily involved with international humanitarian and human rights work, serving as a non-executive director of the Andrei Sakharov Foundation; as a Trustee of MERLIN (Medical Emergency Relief International) and the Siberian Medical University; and is President of Christian Solidarity-UK Trustees.

Lady Cox has been honoured with the Commander Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland and the Wilberforce Award for her humanitarian work. She has also been awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and Honorary Doctorates by universities in the United Kingdom, the United States of America, the Russian Federation, and Armenia.

Baroness Cox has been associated with Bournemouth University since 1987, when she became a Governor, and was installed as Chancellor in 1992.