The Great Get Together 2023: Here are 15 events taking place around Batley and Spen in memory of former MP Jo Cox

Get Togethers will take place from Penzance to Stornoway, from Guernsey to Kilkenny in Ireland, Swansea in Wales and all across England, in memory of the MP who was murdered in her constituency seven years ago.

As a curtain raiser Jo’s family, including her parents and sister Kim Leadbeater, the current Batley and Spen MP, were in London last weekend where they attended the “Love Not Hate” Great Get Together at John Ruskin College in Croydon.

The event, organised by the Manju Shahul-Hameed Foundation, was described by Kim as “a fantastic example of Jo’s More in Common values”.

People up and down the UK will unite their communities this coming weekend, June 23-25, which is the closest to Jo’s birthday on June 22. They will reject division and celebrate Jo’s message that “we have far more in common than that which divides us”.

This week Kim will organise the Great Parliamentary Get Together with colleagues in Westminster on Wednesday, June 21.

Kim said: “My Parliamentary event provides an opportunity for MPs to put their political differences aside at least for a short while as they remember Jo, while the many local events taking place highlight what she stood for: friendship, community, togetherness and the desire to bring people together.”

Here are some of the events scheduled to take place around Batley and Spen over the coming days.

For more information about the Great Get Together, visit https://www.greatgettogether.org/about