This week it’s Anti-Bullying Week in the UK, which I think is a really important opportunity to stop and think about how you interact with those around you. Bullying can take so many forms, from “harmless” name-calling through to the type of hate crime I’m going to talk about in this article. I apologise because this isn’t an easy read, but then it isn’t a light subject so I hope you’ll bear with me…this is really important to me and I want to raise as much awareness as I can. This is an apt week for me to introduce my favourite charity, the Sophie Lancaster Foundation (https://www.sophielancasterfoundation.com/). For those of you who aren’t familiar with the story behind this charity, I definitely recommend watching the BBC Three documentary “Murdered for Being Different” (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0559fd8), which tells Sophie’s sad story. Sophie Lancaster and her partner Rob were attacked by a mob of…
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