About this Event
Join us for our Barnsgrove Speaker Series where we are delighted to welcome the legendary Kate Adie in conversation with Lady Edwina Grosvenor
Kate Aide became a familiar figure through her work as BBC Chief News Correspondent. She is considered to be among the most reliable reporters, as well as one of the first British women, sending despatches from danger zones around the world. Kate is also the long-serving presenter of Radio 4’s From Our Own Correspondent and a presenter or contributor to many other radio and television programmes.
As a television news correspondent, Kate’s memorable assignments include both Gulf Wars, four years of war in the Balkans, the final NATO intervention in Kosovo and elections in 2000; the Herald of Free Enterprise disaster at Zeebrugge, the massacre at Dunblane, the Selby rail crash, the SAS lifting of the Iran Embassy Siege in London, the Bologna railway station bombing and the Tiananmen Square protest in Beijing in 1989.
Kate is speaking to us today in aid of the charity Footprints, of which she is a Patron.
About Footprints:
Footprints is a small charity based covering Hampshire and Dorset but with a big impact. Only around 70 prisoners in the UK will never be released. The remaining 87,000 people will be returning to their communities. The Footprints Project gives people the skills, motivation and support to lead lives free from crime, making safer communities for all of us.
Lady Edwina Grosvenor is a Justice System Reformer with over 20 years of experience and expertise working in the criminal justice sector. Since graduating from Northumbria University in 2005 with a degree in Criminology and Sociology, Edwina has combined her work as a criminologist, Pr*son philanthropist, adviser and reformer to create systemic change within the Justice System.
Edwina’s approach is to combine hands on experience, her expertise, training, philanthropy and influence to create impact. She is a founding investor and Ambassador of the Clink Restaurant chain, and she has advised and worked with the Government on the Women’s Advisory Board for Female Offenders under The Secretary of State for Justice, and the 2025 Women’s Justice Board chaired by Prisons Minister Lord Timpson.
Edwina’s work and experiences in the justice system inspired the launch of One Small Thing, the charity which she is Founder and Chair of. One Small Thing aims to redesign the justice system for women and their children and in 2023 they opened Hope Street, a pioneering purpose-built residential space for justice involved women.
Edwina sits on the advisory board to the Centre for Criminology in the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford. She completed her master’s degree in Criminology and Crime Scene Management at Solent University in August 2021 achieving a distinction. She was the High Sherriff of Hampshire in 2022/23, and in January 2024 she joined Global Philanthropic as a Philanthropy Ambassador. She is also Patron of Paladin, which is the country’s only national stalking advocacy service. In 2023 Edwina was presented with the International Corrections and Prisons Association (www.icpa.org) Presidents Award in Antwerp.
Edwina is a Deputy Lieutenant for Hampshire.
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6.30pm - Arrival - Candover Brook and canapés
7pm - In conversation with Kate Adie followed by Q&A
9pm - Close
Tickets: £50
Event venue & nearby stays
Barnsgrove, White Lane, Basingstoke, United Kingdom
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