However, Franks, comparing the anti-abortion movement to the campaign to abolish slavery, said the issue cut to the heart of the founding principles of the GOP.
With events taking place at venues ranging from tiny, niche museums in Orkney and Norfolk to national giants such at the Natural History Museum and the V&A, the founding ethos of the festival is to celebrate the diverse and often quirky cultural landscape of Britain and to give a voice and platform to smaller institutions.
Wood, the multimillionaire who made his fortune founding travel and accommodation service Wotif.com, is the founding investor but does not hold shares or board membership.
In 1989, he was instrumental in supporting the founding and early development of the charity Citizens UK, which organises communities to act together for the common good.
Transfield Holdings was a founding member and benefactor of the festival.
The SDLP leader, Alasdair McDonnell, said the party had lost "one of its founding pillars".
The reality is of course that the SDLP is now facing a crisis of major historical significance: whether to continue attempting to 'outgreen' Sinn Fein as leaders of the nationalist 'tribe', or to pursue steadfastly that other part of their original, founding identity as a genuine social democratic party on the European model.
I always ask at interview what newspapers people read, and what three things have struck them recently from the news agenda," says Tracey Barrett, founding director of BlueSky PR. "Work experience, on the job training, is what's really important for me as an employer, more so than a degree," says Emma Streets, PR and social media director for Turn Key.
- Mona Sinha, founding board member of the Asian Women's Leadership University Both Carol and Mona committed themselves to being "all in for her" with incredible results, and now Women Moving Millions is inviting all donors to do the same.
"I hope the NVA leads children from wanting to play games to wanting to make them," says Ian Livingstone, one of the founding fathers of the British games industry, who was present for its launch.
After the lessons, Parvinder would stick around to engage me in broken English conversations about Indian history, teaching me about the country's founding fathers – Ambedkar, Nehru, Gandhi – and desperately working to improve his speaking skills.
