It’s incredibly special to be able to recognize amazing people and [Val] is one of the most incredible people I’ve met in Bristol in my nearly 50 years in the city. … I know how much hope [she’s'] brought in to some very dark places where women have been trapped and lost, and perhaps not seen a way out.
Read MoreVal is a modest, gentle person who says . . . ‘It has been an enormous privilege . . . to work in the inner city with marginalised people . . . they have given far more to me than I could ever have given to them.’ We are nevertheless in awe of her achievements in setting up not one, but two pioneering projects in Bristol to help the most marginalised in our city.
Read MoreVal came with a vision and it was like something contagious which we all caught, and I think that vision was very much from God. … She said, ‘We’ve got to do something about these women, who’s going to do it with me?’ She was obedient to the promptings of God’s Spirit in her heart, and we felt that.
Read MoreThese pages reveal a woman who has entered into the stories of those who so often remain hidden in the shadows, and amid the mess and brokenness of life Val has lived love and hope, and invited people to walk good new chapters in their own story.
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