成人快手

A community centre in Leicester has changed it's name to commemorate one of Leicester's suffragettes.

The Woodgate Community Centre, which helped out hundreds of people during the Covid pandemic, has been renamed the Alice Hawkins Community Project.

Alice Hawkins was a leading light of the suffragette movement who was jailed five times during her struggle to achieve equality for women.

Born into a working-class family in 1863, Alice left school at the age of 13 and by her early 20s was working as a machinist at the Equity Shoe factory in Leicester. She soon realised that working conditions and pay for women were inferior compared to those of her male colleagues and began campaigning for equality.

Ady Dayman has been to meet the volunteers who run the centre, and Alice's great-grandson Peter Barratt gives his reaction to the centre being named after his great grandmother.