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‘We have taken Quaker values into the heart of government.’

Grief is hard enough: Judith Moran, Sophie Clarke, and Lindesay Mace on fifteen years of the Down to Earth programme

‘We have taken Quaker values into the heart of government.’

by Judith Moran, Sophie Clarke, and Lindesay Mace 21st November 2025

‘You matter because you are you, you matter to the last moment of your life.’ So said Cicely Saunders, the founder of the hospice movement. Her words remind us that every life holds meaning until its final moments.