Our composer Phillip Wilcher was deeply shaken by this event and like so many composers turned to his art for solace, but also with a view to giving some comfort to the Kelly family and to the world at large. He chose Gerard Manly Hopkins’s poem, Heaven-Haven, and used it to inspire a string quartet that bears the same name.
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To all our dear friends,
We would sincerely like to thank all of our partners who have so generously given so much of their time to support our foundation and cause. Without your help none of what we have achieved in the last 12-months would have been feasible. We are truly blessed to have your support and recognise every single persons input as invaluable.
The board of directors of the foundation will focus our attention on changing attitude in our youth to pre-fuelling, binge-drinking and the current opinion that its "cool to be drunk". Associated within this is alcohol-fuelled violence which led to the tragic death of our beautiful son Thomas in July 2012 that has left our family decimated.
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