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BBC News
27-06-2025
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Joanne Woolway Grenfell named Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich
The new lead of the Church of England in Suffolk has been announced. The Right Reverend Dr Joanne Woolway Grenfell, Area Bishop of Stepney succeeds the Right Reverend Martin Seeley, who has retired as The Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich after 10 years in the new bishop will spend the day meeting people within the diocese, including visits to Debenham Church of England High School and St Edmundsbury cathedral. He said: "'I am honoured to be called to this role. This is a beautiful diocese, with truly lovely people, and a grounded Suffolk sense of service and humility." The appointment was announced by Downing Street on Friday morning, with Bishop Grenfell taking up his new position in the autumn."What I'm already discovering is how warm and welcoming people are. I'm excited about getting to know Suffolk and its people better," he said.''I've had to do some creative strategic work in areas where I've served previously, including developing a vision, putting together funding applications, and overseeing the implementation of mission projects to help the church reach new people, young people, and people from lower income communities.''I care deeply about our churches being as healthy and safe as possible, in policies, practice, recruitment, training, and, most importantly, in culture."The diocesan secretary, Gary Peverley, added: "Suffolk is an amazing place and our county welcomes our new bishop with open arms."Churches and organisations are working together to serve the community and express their faith and the part the bishop plays within that is key. The bishop is joining a diocese with a strategy and a plan for growth." Bishop Grenfell was educated at Oriel College, Oxford and the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. She trained for ministry at Westcott House, Cambridge and has a DPhil from Oxford and was Lecturer in English at Oriel College before 2019, she took up her current role as Area Bishop of Stepney, in the Diocese of London and has been the lead Bishop for safeguarding since May 2023. Follow Suffolk news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
BBC News
17-03-2025
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Boys at Debenham High School learn lessons about masculinity
Teenagers are being taught that they do not have to conform to dangerous stereotypes about masculinity they see studying at Debenham High School in Suffolk were visited by Paul Clark from Progressive Masculinity, which has been working to reshape the idea of masculinity for boys and show that young men are three times more likely to take their own lives than their female of the reasons is thought to be that boys are conditioned to not show their Clark said: "We are really happy to broaden the boys' views of what it means to be a real man, so they don't feel that they have to conform to this stereotype which is very exclusionary in its nature." He told BBC Politics East: "Most men don't fit into this stereotype of what it means to be a real man: to be physical, to be aggressive and to be dominant."We try to show that men can show strength in other ways so they can be empathetic and it's just to broaden the horizons of the boys to show that, 'Yes, I can show strength in a different way.'"It's always really lifting from my point of view to see they do all show emotions. The problem they have got is they feel that they have to hide it."He remembered one boy who said he had cried, but without anyone seeing him."When I asked him where he cried... he revealed he had cried in the shower because the water was hot and makes his face look flushed and so nobody knows he had been crying," he said."I thought it was so sad that boys go to such lengths to hide their emotions just to fit in with the pack." One of the Debenham pupils, Tom, said it was sometimes difficult to show emotions."I think it's scary to admit something and you really don't know what people are going to think of you," he boy, Tommy, said he had suffered from cyber bullying at primary school."I was struggling about who I was but now I know and that has helped me out," he Trevorrow, head of Year 10 at Debenham High School, said: "I think it is really important that we are making the best future possible for young people."It is very important to show how society could be in the future and these are the people who are going to make the future." Sarah Owen, Labour MP for Luton North and chair of the House of Commons Women and Equalities Committee, told BBC Politics East it was vital to support such programmes in schools. "I think we need to give tools to the pupils of today to ensure that they know when they are being exploited and when they are being exposed to harmful contact and we need platforms, especially search engines, to play their part," she said."For young boys, there have to be positive role models. On my committee last week for [International] Women's Day we had a whole panel of men talking about the importance of fathers involved in their children's lives and the need for shared parental leave." BBC Politics East was broadcast on Sunday, 16 March and can be seen on BBC Suffolk news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
BBC News
30-01-2025
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Holocaust education prize founder warns of rising hatred
The founder of an anti-discrimination programme for schools says he fears hatred and prejudice are on the Rainer Schulze runs the Dora Love Prize, named after a Jewish Holocaust survivor who worked to promote tolerance and 2025 prize has seven schools from Suffolk taking part, along with seven in Essex, one in Kent, five in Dorset and one in Schulze said: "Seeing those young people today gave me the confidence that maybe not all is lost, that they are equally passionate about preserving freedoms for everyone." A launch event was held at the University of Suffolk in Ipswich following Monday's Holocaust Remembrance Day, and similar events have taken place in Colchester and Dora Love Prize is awarded to students who develop projects which "link what they have learnt about the Holocaust with the world they live in today".About 100 youngsters from Suffolk took part with workshops, presentations and a panel discussion covering the Holocaust, other genocides and current political challenges in Britain and Schulze, who has been running the prize for 13 years, said he was genuinely worried about events in the US."The vilification and demonisation of certain groups - I'm afraid it will actually come to Europe as well and probably come to Britain first, " he said. Following the launch events, students develop their own creative projects based on the title "Time to stand up against a renewed wave of hate and exclusion".They then present their work at a showcase event in Isla and Dayah are 14-year-olds from Debenham High School who took part in a workshop looking at Holocaust perpetrators which was called Ordinary People - Extraordinary said: "It was normalised, that people can commit genocide without being questioned. Isla added: "People in the photographs aren't hiding their faces; it wasn't something they were ashamed of - they were proud of said : "I think it's very important to learn about the mistakes that we made in the past."Looking back in history, for example at these photos, we should learn from what happened back then and we should not be afraid to talk about it." Follow Suffolk news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
