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# A Life Remembered: Christopher Martyn Cooke – 18.1.1968 – 22.2.2016
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/a-life-remembered-christopher-martyn-cooke-18-1-1968-22-2-2016/
- Published: 2016-06-21T21:48:49.000Z
- Updated: 2016-06-21T23:02:31.000Z
- Description: Community activist Christopher Martyn Cooke was remembered by friends, colleagues and local residents at a memorial service in St Mary Church, Kemptown on Sunday, June 19.
- Author: Graham Robson
- Tags: In The South, News, Chris Cooke, Christopher Martyn Cooke

## Community activist Christopher Martyn Cooke was remembered by friends, colleagues and local residents at a memorial service in St Mary Church, Kemptown on Sunday, June 19.

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**Chris a dedicated campaigner** for all the communities of Kemp Town where he lived, died in February following a fire in the flat he shared at Essex Place.

**Simon Burgess**, the former Leader of Brighton & Hove City Council and **James Ledward** commissioning editor at Gscene Magazine both spoke about the range and scope of work that Chris had done in making St James Street a better and safer place to live. **Father Andrew Woodward** read a personal message from **Mark Andrew Woolford** a friend and flatmate of Chris for the last ten years and also delivered the main address.

Deputy Mayor of Brighton and Hove **Councillor Mo Marsh**, a friend of Chris for many years read the reading from Romans; community activist **Steve Parry** read a traditional *Indian Prayer*; **Billie Lewis** chair of the LGBT Community Safety Forum read the poem *Love is this* and friend and fellow community activist **Muhammad Asaduzzaman** read *Loving each other,* a passage from the Koran.

The superb Brighton Gay Men’s Chorus sang *Rule the World, Everlasting Love* and *The Rose* during which members of the congregation and choir placed rainbow carnations in vases at the front of the church*.* In particular, their spine tingling performance of *One Moment in Time*, brought tears to many eyes.

The congregation joined with the chorus in a rousing rendition of Parry’s *Jerusalem* followed by a fine performance of Widor’s Toccata from Symphony no. 5 from organist **Andrew Beaizley**.

A collection was taken at the end of the service for the Rainbow Fund where, before his untimely death, Chris chaired the community fundraising committee for a short while.

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