The Women’s Institute is featuring a trans woman member on the cover of its magazine for the first time.
Petra Wenham, a member of Cake and Revolution WI in Suffolk, appears on the July/August issue of WI Life, the organisation’s membership magazine.
She said she felt “accepted and honoured” to be on a platform to raise awareness of transgender issues.
Cake and Revolution said Ms Wenham “deserves to be acknowledged and celebrated”. More
24 July is the Samaritans annual awareness campaign ‘Talk to Us’ also known as the ‘Big Listen’ and with that in mind we have chosen Fearne Cotton as our Inspirational Diversity Champion of the Month.
Fearne Cotton is an author and TV and radio presenter.
She is an ambassador for MIND the Mental Health Charity and lends her support to their major campaigns such as RED January and Time to Talk Day, hosted their Mind Media Awards in 2017 and has visited a local Mind to learn about Mind’s work within the community.
She first publicly opened up about her experience of depression in 2017 before writing HAPPY, a book about finding joy in the everyday and letting go of perfection. Since then, she has released her follow up book CALM and has started her podcast HAPPY PLACE, in which she interviews various individuals about their life experiences, including Mind’s President, Stephen Fry.
Fearne has also launched her Happy Place Festival, previously welcoming Mind to host a pop-up stand at the live event and supporting Mind through the virtual event in 2020.
To find out more about Fearne see here
https://www.officialfearnecotton.com/
To find out more about the ‘Talk to Us’ campaign see here