After an international competition and showing the maquettes of our four shortlisted designs around the country, we commissioned the celebrated British artist Christine Charlesworth to create a bronze lifesize+ statue of the 17-year-old Aphra, the age at which she left Canterbury for London. The piece will stand outside the Beaney House of Art & Knowledge in the High Street and we are delighted that it will be unveiled on 25 February 2025 by a very distinguished patron of literacy and reading. Due to unexpected additional costs, however, our Aphra fund is still short by a couple of thousand pounds: we would dearly welcome any donation you are able to make! Thank you.