For one week, every pound given to Electric Voice Theatre will be doubled by Big Give’s Women and Girls Match Fund, and every pound puts books about a remarkable scientist into the hands of London schoolchildren.
Her name was Kathleen Lonsdale…The Peaceful Crystallographer

Who?
Kathleen Lonsdale was the tenth child of an Irish postman. She proved the structure of benzene, the ring of carbon atoms that underpins DNA and half of modern medicine. She was the first woman professor at UCL. She went to prison for her pacifism. Most children in this country will never hear her name, and we want to change that.

In The Peaceful Crystallographer, children work with UCL scientists and our singer-composers to turn crystallography into music.

What your money does….
If you donate during the campaign week, your money will have twice the impact.

• £2.50 becomes £5 and gives 5 children a free copy of our new primary school book about Kathleen Lonsdale
• £15 becomes £30, which means an illustrated book about Kathleen Lonsdale for every child in a class.
• £50 becomes £100. That’s a whole year group!

Why is this needed?
59% of KS3 history lessons in England feature no women at all.
The National Curriculum for History names two: Mary I and Elizabeth I. That’s it.

We’re putting free illustrated books about Dame Kathleen Lonsdale, crystallographer, Quaker, peace campaigner, into London schools. From 6th of October, every pound you give is doubled.