At the recent 2016 GMB Women's Conference, the GMB Women's Radical Network put on a play Changing the Water - Kitty Wilkinson, written by their very own Lorraine Winson and it was a huge success. Regional secretary Paul McCarthy, who the group blamed as responsible for insisting they put together a play for the event, expressed to conference how impressed he was with the groups efforts and how well they had done with very little resource or time. Paul also said during his closing speech:'' We're not just a union, we are a society. The people that we look after are not just our members, but also their families and communities''.
The play Changing the Water was about,
Kitty Wilkinson (Catherine Wilkinson) (1786–1860) was an Irish migrant, "wife of a labourer", who became known as the Saint of the Slums.[2] In 1832, during a cholera epidemic, she had the only boiler in her neighbourhood, so she invited those with infected clothes or linens to use it, thus saving many lives. This was the first public washhouse in Liverpool. Ten years later with public funds her efforts resulted in the opening of a combined washhouse and public baths, the first in the United Kingdom. - source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitty_Wilkinson
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Here is a video of the play
