Troupers: the founders of the Profanity Embroidery Group. Tackling debt. Midwives on the benefits of colostrum
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2020
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
More from our series that celebrates the women who get things done – the Troupers. They're very bad at blowing their own trumpets so we're doing it for them. Today we hear from Annie Taylor and Wendy Robinson the founders of the Profanity Embroidery Group in Whitstable.
After building up credit card debt of £25,000 Clare Seal decided she had to do something drastic to deal with it. She set up an Instagram account to make herself accountable. Posting anonymously she shared her story and offered advice and solidarity to a growing community of people. She’s now written a book with tips and advice for others in a similar situation. It’s called Real Life Money: an honest guide to taking control of your finances
Plus two midwives from Kent Kent midwives - Sally Sidhu and Jan Gatehouse - who've just an award for their work on promoting colostrum tell Jane all about the benefits of so called "liquid gold" especially for premature babies.
And as some children in England return to school how do you deal with a child who still needs to be shielded.
Presenter Jane Garvey Producer Beverley Purcell
Guest; Annie Taylor Guest; Wendy Robinson Guest; Clare Seal Guest; Sally Sidhu Guest; Jan Gatehouse
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| 0:41.0 | Hi this is Jane Garvey, it's the Women's Our podcast from Monday, June the 1st, 2020. Here we go. |
| 0:47.6 | Hello good morning today. Liquid gold they call it. It's Colostrum. We'll talk about the |
| 0:52.4 | special power of Colostrum on We'll talk about the special power of |
| 0:53.3 | colostrum on women's hour today. We'll also discuss the shame of debt and |
| 0:57.7 | how you can get out of it. My guest is Claire Seal, known on social media as at my frugal year. She had 25 |
| 1:06.3 | grands worth of debt. She's got it down to around 10 now. How has she done it and |
| 1:10.5 | how did she get through it? It wasn't easy to start with but if that |
| 1:14.3 | resonates with you make sure you're listening to right to the end of today's |
| 1:17.8 | edition of the program. Now as we know some children in reception in year |
| 1:21.9 | one and in year six in England can start going |
| 1:25.4 | back to school today it would be interesting to see how many do go and what they make |
| 1:29.3 | of it yesterday the cabinet minister Robert Genrick announced and it was something of a surprise this |
| 1:35.2 | that people who are shielding remain vulnerable and should continue to take precautions |
| 1:39.8 | but can now leave their house as long as they maintain social distancing. |
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