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27 February 2019
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Vol 26 l Issue 9
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Freedom has designs on fashion world after beating cancer Report by Danielle Thompson A FORMER Formby High School pupil is making a name for himself in the highly competitive world of fashion. Freedom Doran, 16, is turning on the style by launching his own clothing company - just months after he landed the leading role in a TV drama series aged just 14... and all this after successfully battling stomach cancer. The teenager, who turns 17 in March, featured in the Sky 10-part thriller ‘The Five’ in April 2016, when he played the younger version of main character Danny in flashback scenes. He then launched his own clothing company, Marzenie, a collection of tshirts, hoodies, caps and swimwear, later that year but had to close it in November 2017 when, aged 15, he was diagnosed with lower stomach cancer at Alder Hey Children's Hospital. Freedom had an operation and endured six months of intense chemotherapy treatment. Not to be deterred, he started planning a new fashion, home and beauty company, Nethrial while also studying for his GCSEs. Less than a week after his chemotherapy treatment ended in May 2018, he took his exams, achieving 3A*s, 4As and 2Bs. He then made the decision to fully focus on Nethrial and attended London Fashion Week and the London Fashion Week Men’s shows and trade events in London to Berlin, meeting a host of big
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Freedom Doran with television personality and former Pussycat Dolls singer Nicole Scherzinger
name celebrities on the way. Nethrial, which aims to be a one-stop online shop for 13-34 year olds, was finally launched online on Friday, February 22 with a Manchester launch party in a few months' time.
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SEFTON Council has been awarded half a million pounds to help fight gang culture in the borough. The huge cash boost will go towards the local authority ’s praised ‘early intervention programme’ and ongoing work to prevent youth crime. The funding is being made available from the government’s Supporting Families Against Youth Crime fund and will help Sefton Council to continue its in-depth work with parents, carers and professionals on the dangers of children being exposed to gang culture. The Supporting Families Against Youth Crime fund enables keyworkers, community groups, teachers and other professionals working with children and young people at risk, to intervene early on and help stop them from becoming drawn into gang crime, serious violence and the youth justice system. Sefton Council will now use the £500,000 funding to continue with a range of initiatives, which will see teams work closely with young children who may be directly impacted by crime from an early age. Cllr Trish Hardy, Sefton Council’s Cabinet Member for Communities and Housing, said: “I’m pleased that
we’ve been given this grant. This much-needed vital funding will allow us to continue to help families in need to resolve problems that affect them and their community. “We recognise that investing in people at an early stage, before problems become too serious, will help our families across the borough so they can make positive changes to their lives that will keep them safe and healthy and away from youth or gang crime. “This funding will help us support initiatives that focus on early intervention and scaling up whole family working before problems escalate into something much more serious that could have consequences later in life. “However, the funding is only short-term and doesn’t substitute for a much needed sustainable approach to local government funding to tackle issues like this in our community.” The grant is the latest recognition for Sefton Council’s Localities team after their partnership work around gang awareness was praised as an example of best practice by the government’s Victim’s Commissioner, Baroness Newlove. l For more information about Sefton Council’s Localities team and their work around early intervention and prevention, visit the website: www.sefton.gov.uk/localities
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