Recent Forum Activity
As an active group, we are pleased to share some of our recent activity and successes with you.
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'Sunflowers for Ukraine'
This is a fundraising anthology of works by Forum members supporting Ukraine with illustrations by the late, great, Forum member, Bill Petherick who sadly died late last year,.
To date it has raised over £4000 and has supported seven families in Ukraine and fifteen in the UK. The money is used to purchase food, clothing and fuel. The fund is administered and audited by a small team of Forum members.
To receive a copy please mail the Chair, David offering a donation to the fund. Most donations are £10 and sometimes £20 but feel free to give whatever you feel you can afford.Thank You for your support!
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'IPA Art 23' in Madrid, Spain
The Chair and Deputy Chair of the Forum ( David Lewis and Ann Cumberland) have been invited to this prestigious event in Spain from 24-25th February and will be displaying a range of members' works.
The aim of the trip is to forge a link between global writing groups of the IPA which has long been an ambition of the Forum.. A full report will appear here after the event.
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Talk about 'Hold the Front Page'!
Only a few days after the wonderful trip, it was featured in the March 2023 edition of IPA Spain's quarterly magazine.
The full magazine can be downloaded by clicking here (15mb PDF file),
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Book Launch: 'Which Way to The Gambia'
The Forum delivered a well-attended launch event of Ann Cumberland's first book,'Which Way to The Gambia' a travel book published by Bryn Stowe Publications of Scarborough describing an IPA aid trip to the Gambia in 2020.
The event at The Cober Hill Hotel and Conference Centre at Cloughton, North Yorkshire was also Zoomed around the world and was a very successful event. If members have similar book launches please let us know for this site and we will publicise them and thereby, the book.
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Book Launch: 'Eternal City'
Several Forum members were present at member Mark Thompson's book launch at Waterstones, York of his second novel, 'Eternal City'.
Mark's first novel 'Dust' was a top seller now translated into three languages. The event was a sell out and Mark was ably supported by The Forum.
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'Sam Saves the Planet' (Mog Tales 4)
The Chair, David's children's literacy engagement series, now in its fourth year, has just received a £1000 grant to deliver the next book in the series, 'Sam Saves the Planet'. This is an IPA supported series based on the adventures of 'Sam the Superhero', (previously 'Stan the Superhero' a Deed Poll change!) Sam is a police Morris 000 Panda car which the IPA Region 3 owned and leased to David for the series, hence the IPA involvement.
The first three books engaged over 300 young writers and their families and for the fourth, David is offering the opportunity to all the Forum members' children aged 3-12 to contribute a story. Stories should be illustrated and tell a story of imagination and wonder about how the amazing Sam 'Saves the Planet'. this is an ecological book in other words! Any length suitable for an anthology and should be hand-written.
Please send all submissions or further enquiries to:
David Lewis. Bryn Stowe Publications,
Hay lane Terrace, Cloughton, YO13 0AJ.
Deadline: 1st September 2023.
6 I Hoggy the Yimp
The War Letters of Hoggy the Yimp contain many letters, articles and poems from contributors to this website; people who care about those suffering in Ukraine. Hoggy's blog, along with the Sunflowers Book, has helped raise thousands of pounds to support families and victims suffering from the current conflict.
Q - Who is Hoggy? He is a 'Hopeful Old Geezer Gone Yimping'.
More details can be found on his blog - https://www.hoggytheyimp.com/
