This year we celebrated a warm sunny Godiva Day with many friends. We thank them all for their help and support.
Godiva Awards 2019
International Women’s Day and World peace
2019 Chinese New Year
Celebrating the Year of the Pig – Kung Hei Fat Choi !
The venue was Wing Wah Restaurant Coventry CV4 9EL and it was in aid of The Carers Trust Heart of England (formerly Coventry Carers Centre)
Talk at Earlsdon Park Retirement Village Residents
Pru Poretta talks to residents about her passionate interest in the role Lady Godiva played protecting the vulnerable against injustice.
Presentation of Queens Award for Voluntary Service
The Lord Mayor, Councillor John Blundell invited us
To a Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service Presentation
to Godiva Trust
by Ms Ursula Russell MBE DL
Deputy Lieutenant for the West Midlands
on Wednesday 26th September 2018
at St Mary’s Guildhall, Bayley Lane, Coventry
Followup meeting for those groups who work in the City of Coventry
Godiva Dame Goodyver’s Day 2018
Friday 14th September 2018
The event concluded with the blessing of traditional foods which were then distributed by the Godiva Sisters
May God, who is giver of all good things bless the food and those who have prepared it for us. As we share and eat with friends and neighbours of other cultures and faith traditions, may our celebration of the Godiva Sisters today touch hearts and inspire hope of a better world where everone can live in peace.
Thanks be to God
Peace Runners arrive in Coventry
Link to photographs of Peace Runners arriving in Coventry during this years Rising Global Peace Forum event at Coventry Cathedral
Lady Godiva with Cllr John Blundell Lord Mayor of Coventry @jahnblundell and Mike Hardy chair of RISING @mikehardy Also The Very Revd John Witcombe Dean of Coventry @deancov
Ordinary Women who do Extraordinary things – Legend and reality Godiva – Dame Goodyvers Daye
Cathedral Quarter, Coventry City Centre, Coventry, West Midlands, CV1
Ordinary Women doing Extraordinary things come with us as we uncover, acknowledge and reveal the trailblazing women behind the legends enabling other people to walk in their footsteps and develop new paths
Unique chance to meet and celebrate with Lady Godiva, Countess of Mercia. Come and join our celebration in the historic Cathedral Quarter in the Heart of Coventry.
Friday September 14th will celebrate not only Godiva and her Sisters,Dame Goodyver’s Daye;but this year we will uncover, acknowledge and reveal the women behind the legends. A traditional feast day given by the Guild of Cappers and Feltmakers many centuries ago and revived by Coventry’s official Lady Godiva Pru Porretta MBE who believes that Lady Godiva is as important a figure today as she has ever been,
See,hear and admire the stories that make Coventry what it is today celebrating Ordinary women who have done extraordinary things Godiva Sisters in their beautiful costumes some medieval and others traditional
Join in and hear music, song and dance performances with adults and children from all around the world.
Meet Godiva and her sisters: heroes in their own cultural, ethnic or religious traditions, characters both ancient and modern, whose lives have inspired and still inspire today through their own individual stories which connect to the story of Godiva
Enjoy tastes of traditional Coventry God cakes, Irish soda bread, Asian, African, Malaysian and Serbian treats.
The Godiva Trust helps a new generation of women from Coventry’s diverse cultures better relate and reinterpret our heritage celebration with a unique identity, and underpins the City’s International role as a Centre for Peace and Reconciliation.
Opening Times
Friday 14 September: 10.30 am – 12.00
Booking Details
No booking required
Additional Information
Contact for the day: Pru Porretta
www.godiva.uk.com
www.cwfuk.org/
@godivatrust
@cwfwmuk
@covladygodiva
Directions
Cathedral Quarter, Broadgate, Priory Visitor Centre, Cathedral Ruins: all in the heart of Coventry.