Dr James Partridge OBE passes away, leaving behind a legacy of life-changing work and devotion to others, as the pioneer behind the face equality movement

James was a social entrepreneur, author, loving husband, father, grandfather, and the architect of the global face equality movement. Dr James Richard John Partridge OBE, passed away suddenly, but peacefully on Sunday 16th August 2020, at Princess Elizabeth Hospital, Guernsey. He was a wonderful and devoted husband to Carrie, father to Simon, Charlotte and Harriet,

FACE IT – A new book charting my crusade

Every author who’s waiting for their book to come out will experience pangs of anxiety in the middle of the night! What have I missed out? Should I have said that differently? Or better? Who haven’t I thanked? And many more agonies… FACE IT may have been long in gestation but that hasn’t saved me

To wear a face mask or not…

Wearing facial protection will soon become normal, according to the World Health Organization’s Covid-19 spokesman David Nabarro in an interview with the BBC: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p089cz1s Despite conflicting evidence about whether face masks are effective in protecting people from Covid-19 (eg: eyes can still be recipients of the droplets), Nabarro said people had to come to terms with

Facing up to the world of AI

You may have missed a Linked In post last week by my great friend and ally, Susan Scott-Parker, founder of Business Disability International (bdi) — and this is a good opportunity for me to thank her profusely for her invaluable support and inspiration over many years. This is almost plagiarism on my part but I

Re-activating my blogging

It’s been 15 months since I last wrote a blog – and that’s partly because I’ve been very busy setting up an international alliance of NGOs that want to turn the campaign for Face Equality started by Changing Faces in 2008 into a global movement. It’s called Face Equality International and here’s the link: http://www.faceequalityinternational.org.

Reflections on a brother in arms, RIP

My dear brother, the Rev. Canon David Partridge, died a few weeks ago and so many people have shared with the family their memories of his immense life as a pastor in his parish, Warblington with Emsworth, and as a committed pacifist and campaigner on many controversial causes like homelessness, anti-apartheid and the Israeli-Palestinian rapprochement.

#WhereIsDisfigurement? Two classic examples

I fear we at Changing Faces* are going to have say this loudly and regularly: Barely a month passes without a government department, executive agency, public body, company or charity publishing a report or new policy on equality, human rights and/or disability and yet the issue of disfigurement is often ignored, excluded or otherwise forgotten.

Celebrating the springboard donation to Changing Faces

Twenty-five years ago this week, on Friday 25th October 1991, I received the very first donation to Changing Faces – and it was a full nine months before the charity was officially ‘launched’ and was therefore of even more significance. So I was delighted last week to be invited to have coffee with Greville and Lisa

Kathy Lacy – a woman of huge empathy who inspired thousands

It was with great sadness that I heard of Kathy Lacy’s death last Thursday after she’d been through a series of very difficult health problems. I’d seen her a fortnight ago and she was clearly in agony so it was a mercy. I first met Kathy (pictured above) at Victoria Station in July 1992 three

The birth of modern plastic surgery and the face equality campaign

The centenary of the cataclysmic Great War is happening all around us but is liable to be drowned out by last week’s European events. Let me call for a moment of reflection. We say on Armistice Day every November ‘we will remember them’ and we should this week. Lest we forget. On Friday 1st July,