UPDATE: Tuesday 26 April, 10.30am

Unfortunately, due to the riing number of Covid cases, we have taken the decision to postpone this event until later in the year. We have not taken the decision lightly and we hope to put it on again later in 2022.

All current ticket holders are being contacted and will be refunded in full. 

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The Kensington + Chelsea Foundation is proud to be hosting ‘Alan Johnson in conversation with Matthew Stadlen’. Join us for an entertaining evening at The Tabernacle on Friday 6 May at 7.30pm where all proceeds will support the K+C Foundation's projects improving the lives and life chances of vulnerable members of our community.

After growing up in social housing in Notting Hill, Alan Johnson was General Secretary of the Communication Workers Union before entering Parliament as Labour MP for Hull West and Hessle in 1997. He served as Home Secretary from June 2009 to May 2010. Before that, he filled a wide variety of cabinet positions in both the Blair and Brown governments, including Health Secretary and Education Secretary. Until 20 January 2011 he was Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer. Alan retired as an MP before the 2017 general election after 20 years as an MP.

His award winning memoir trilogy has won accolades from the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, the Orwell Prize, Britain's top political writing award and the National Book Club award for Best Biography. His latest book and first novel, ‘The Late Train to Gipsy Hill’, was published in September 2021.

Alan now appears regularly with Steph McGovern on Channel 4’s ‘Steph’s Packed Lunch’ and is the agony uncle for Saga Magazine.

He lives in East Yorkshire with his wife Carolyn.

Alan Johnson will be signing copies of his books after the talk with a donation made to the K+C Foundation.

Matthew Stadlen is a local Notting Hill resident who was a weekend presenter on the popular radio channel, LBC, from 2016 to 2020.

Matthew’s on-screen works include the BBC interview series ‘Five Minutes With...’  where he interviewed Stephen Fry, Richard Dawkins and Serena Williams plus over 200 other notable names. His other BBC series ‘On The Road With....’ featured guests like Nicola Benedetti, Bryn Terfel and Eton Head Master Tony Little.

Stadlen has interviewed for The Spectator and extensively for the Radio Times and has worked as a consultant on the ITV political programme, Peston on Sunday. He also had a column with The Daily Telegraph, ‘The Matthew Stadlen Interview’, for which he interviewed famous figures including John Cleese, Sir David Attenborough and Dawn French.

He is the author of ‘How To See Birds’, published by Papadakis and illustrated with his own photographs from home and abroad.

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Bringing the borough together 

Kensington and Chelsea is a borough usually associated with affluence and wealth, but it also has areas of severe deprivation and significant inequalities. You may not know the following:  

  • K+C has the worst rate of school exclusions in London and 1 in 4 children live in poverty 
  • K+C is in the lowest 20% of Local Authorities for mental health performance and has a huge disparity in life expectancy from street to street 
  • The unemployment rate in K+C is higher than the London average and since 2020 the number of people claiming in-work benefits, reflecting in-work poverty, has tripled 

The K+C Foundation is a local charity set up in 2008 to improve the lives and life chances of our most vulnerable residents.