We certainly celebrated in style! We Purpled the Park benches in Abbey Fields with inspirational quotes. And in the evening we carried on the celebrations with friends and Kenilworth Town Councillors at Milk and Mocha.

Councillor Mark Stevens shared these as his favourite quotes –

Jane got the evening to a great start by reading this poem by Becky Hemsley

She drives just like a girl you know

And throws just like one too

She fights just like a girl as well

She’s just no match for you

She also runs just like a girl

And that’s the way she plays

But when they say “just like a girl”

Jane reading her poem

I think they mean to say

Worse

And somehow less

Somehow slower, somehow weaker

They think that if she’s ‘like a girl’

They’ll easily defeat her

But girls will go to battle

When they already are bleeding

And girls are great at throwing themselves

Upwards through glass ceilings

Girls are busy navigating progress,

Driving change

And girls are busy winning

Whilst you criticise their game

So tell her that she’s ‘like a girl’ –

She may just prove you right

She may out-play, out-last you,

Win the race and win the fight

‘Cause she’s a driving force

Fighting for her place in this world

And if you try to talk her down

She’ll rise up

Like a girl”

This poem has proved so popular that it’s been shared by many of our sister Clubs. Including as far a field as Lower Hutt in New Zealand!

Then three of the International Students from Warwick Uni shared poems in their own languages from their countries; Brazil, Hong King and India to make it a truly #InspireInclusion evening.