ACT

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Papers relating to the 2007 Women's Aid celebrity public awareness campaign 'ACT - until women and children are safe'. Documents include: information leaflets about the campaign; correspondence and invitations for the campaign launch reception at 11 Downing Street on 1 February 2007; and booklets and order of proceedings for benefit lunches for the campaign hosted by Women's Aid ambassadors Gordon and Tana Ramsay.

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Women's Aid celebrity public awareness campaign launched at 11 Downing Street on 1 February 2007 by kind permission of Gordon Brown (Chancellor of the Exchequer) and Sarah Brown (Patron of Women's Aid since 2004). Photographer Rankin took head and shoulder portraits of a range of well-known female faces and each portrait showed the famous face made up to show a physical effect of domestic abuse. The aim of the campaign was to mainstream the issue of domestic violence and get people talking about it: 'A: Admit that abuse does take place. C: Call it by its name. T: Talk to someone.'

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