A patchwork coat, which is travelling the country on its citizens’ shoulders to highlight environmental issues continues its journey across Essex.
Currently on display at Red Lion Books, Colchester, the coat will take 6 days from 1st to 6th June to walk from Colchester to Southend via Wivenhoe, Tiptree, Maldon, South Woodham Ferrers and Rochford.
The Coat of Hopes is a patchwork coat on an ongoing walking pilgrimage through the UK towards the end of the climate and ecological emergency.
It has been made by and worn and walked by many hundreds of people on a journey on foot of around 1500 miles so far. It carries people’s hopes for the places they live, sewn into the blanket patches of which it is made.
Find out more at coatofhopes.uk/.