On 11th August 2007, in a park in Bacup, Lancashire, Sophie Lancaster and her boyfriend, Rob, were assaulted by a group of 5 boys. After this brutal, unprovoked attack against their appearance, Sophie was then hospitalised and passed away at the age of twenty on 24th August 2007. As a result of this assault and previously witnessing the abuse that Sophie had received, her mother, Sylvia Lancaster, established The Sophie Lancaster Foundation. To this day, the work of the found

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