Since becoming a registered charity 35 years ago, Cranfield Trust has supported thousands of charities and other groups. Today, with a UK national register of 1,450+ active skilled volunteers, Cranfield Trust provides management support by delivering consultancy projects, mentoring, telephone advice, training, peer support and free resources. Everything that Cranfield Trust does is free of charge to the charities themselves. It's an incredible record.

Last year, I was honoured to begin working for Cranfield Trust. This year, I took up the challenge of reading a total of 35 poems as part of the charity's fundraising #CharityChallenge35 campaign. I did my readings at three different events and posted details of the poems below.

For anyone who has not yet done so & who would like to, it's still not too late to sponsor me!

Thanks for your support.

Diolch am eich holl gefnogaeth,

Susan

23 OCTOBER 2024 - POEMS READ AT ALL SAINTS, NEW CROSS

Diary of a Church Mouse - John Betjeman

The Cry of the Children (I and II) - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Jim - Hilaire Belloc

Telephone Conversation - Wole Soyinka

Equality - Maya Angelou

Limerick: Old Person of Basing - Edward Lear

A Hymn to God the Father - John Donne

Song to Celia - Ben Jonson

I remember, I remember - Thomas Hood

The Old Stoic - Emily Brontë

Sea-Fever - John Masefield

Gloucester Wassail (Anon)

Extract from In Memoriam - Alfred Tennyson.

10 TACHWEDD/NOVEMBER 2024 - CERDDI A DDARLLENWYD YN/POEMS READ AT MOUNT PLEASANT, PONCIAU

Cymraeg:

Rhyfel - Hedd Wyn

Llwybrau’r drin - Hedd Wyn

Marw oddi cartref - Hedd Wyn

Yr aberth mawr - Hedd Wyn

Y Lamp - I D Hooson

Gwna fi fel pren planedig, o fy Nuw - Ann Griffiths

English:

For the Fallen - Laurence Binyon

In Flanders Fields - John McCrae

Anthem for Doomed Youth - Wilfrid Owen

June 1915 - Charlotte Mew

Sing me to sleep where bullets fall - Pte Robert William Jones, Rhosllannerchrugog

Home within the shelter of the Highest - Tom Wright

Virtue - George Herbert.

26 NOVEMBER 2024 - ONLINE POETRY READING FOR CRANFIELD TRUST STAFF

November - Thomas Hood

Preludes - T S Eliot

The Vagabond - Robert Louis Stevenson

A Journey Through Timeless Romsey - Lesley Scott

Small Kindnesses - Danusha Laméris (Requested poem)

Kindness to Animals - Wendy Cope

I Wanna Be Yours - John Cooper Clarke (Requested poem)

The Oxen - Thomas Hardy

Good Will To Men: Give Us Your Money - Pam Ayres.