The Onevoice agm was on Saturday night. I went. In the back of their report, in the list of the donations, are the words ‘Manchester metropolitan university gospel choir’. I just want to record how proud of my friends I was at seeing those words: it was a wonderful thing Charlie and the choir did, and I think they are all amazing,

For Onevoice itself is amazing. To me, it isn’t just a charity – it is, as Beth put it, a world. It is a world where these can be themselves – confident and self assured. There, they can meet kids and adults just like them, who face exactly the same problems, yet have overcome them. Here, they hopefully see that there world is only limited by to things: their imagination, and the boundary of space-time itself.

Things like Onevoice are thus vital inasmuch as they show these kids and their parents what can be done. Me and my fellow role-models are all highly successful. Indeed, the speeches they all gave were all truly inspiring. With luck and a fair wind, maybe, in a few years, some of those kids will go to uni, befriend the leader of the choir (or, in Ian’s case, rock band) and the whole thing will start again.