We've been meeting regularly with the DCMS, but today's felt special: the first meeting since the announcement in Parliament that the wall will be made permanent. ❤️

A year ago today we welcomed members of CATA (Covid Airborne Transmission Alliance) including @kamgadhok.bsky.social @barryjmjones.bsky.social and @safedavid3.bsky.social to the wall. They continue to highlight the UK failure to protect healthcare workers from life-changing respiratory diseases.❤️

Three years ago today we found this bit of heart-shaped moss on the wall, and adopted it as a memorial heart. Mossie is still going strong! ❤️ #ThrowbackThursday

The UK Covid Inquiry second report concludes that the response to the pandemic was often a case of ‘too little, too late’. We will never forgive the then Conservative government for partying while they left the country vulnerable and grieving.

Fridays at the wall just wouldn’t be the same without cakes made by Shouty ❤️ @rum7.bsky.social we love you!

A year ago today we were at the #CovidInquiry in support of our fellow bereaved. ❤️

Apparently today is #NationalCakeDay - the perfect opportunity to showcase some of the spectacular cakes made by volunteer (and star baker) @rum7.bsky.social ❤️

Was proud to stand next to fellow volunteer @franfd.bsky.social at the @covidmemorialwall.bsky.social for this interview, talking about our late husbands and the importance of the Wall's permanence... ❤️

Two of our volunteers spoke to the BBC about the government's announcement that The National Covid Memorial Wall will be made permanent - and of the Wall's importance in bridging institutional accountability with public grief. ❤️

Our volunteer Lynn Jones is working hard to bring a covid memorial to Stoke-on-Trent. ❤️

We talk about them... ❤️

A powerful piece from @drrachelclarke.com "The collective amnesia of those damned by the Covid inquiry is pernicious and unforgivable..." We will never forget. ❤️

Everyone who has memory-holed the pandemic in the UK should take a walk along the Covid memorial wall in London. Each heart represents a single person who died of Covid, and it goes of *forever*. It's very, very long.

Updating the number of covid dead in the UK. ❤️

Once again, we have put up our banner and updated the number of covid dead. More than a quarter of a million people in the UK have died with covid as a cause of death on their death certificate. A devastating milestone. ❤️

An absolutely beautiful day at the wall - made even better by visitors bringing us treats! We are so grateful for everyone's goodwill and support. ❤️

Part of me still cannot accept that my Dad's name is on that Wall, that he lived a long happy life, only to die an avoidable death, let down by the government be voted for.

Thank you.

Love to others,like my family, who shudder when headlines tell us 23,000 lives could have been saved. The chaotic,lazy Tory Gvt under Johnson,the worst Gvt at the worst time. Respect to all at @covidmemorialwall.bsky.social for giving us somewhere to go when there was nowhere to mark our loss. ❤️

Exactly. Never forgotten and never forgiven

Today, as the #CovidInquiry releases its module 2 report, we are thinking especially of everyone who will have to relive the trauma of that time, who will have to hear of the government failings that led to their loved ones' deaths.  We will never forget our beloved dead. ❤️

"Each of the more than 240,000 hand painted hearts on the National Covid Memorial Wall is a poignant and powerful reminder of the scale of loss of life to the pandemic...Today, we commit to ensuring that those who died are not forgotten." Culture Minister Baroness Twycross, 13.11.25.

The view of the Wall at the reception we attended at the House of Lords, after the Government announcement that the Wall should be preserved. We look forward to this exciting next chapter. ❤️

NEWS: Covid Memorial Wall Will Be Preserved bit.ly/4844RZ5

Wow - @patriciastoughton.bsky.social gets some amazing shots of the Wall! ❤️

Improvised memorials are fascinating and powerful. This one offers a moving variation on the tributes left after collective (graffiti, notes, flowers at République after 11/13 in Paris) & personal (flyers seeking missing loved ones after 9/11 in NYC) traumas, ephemeral then preserved after the fact

Lambeth’s Covid Memorial Wall to be preserved as a monument to the pandemic

This is excellent news and long overdue.

We are grateful to the government for their support in ensuring that our beloved memorial is preserved. ❤️

"You deserve to be remembered..." ❤️

The pain of not being able to be with my husband when he died will never leave me - but I am unbearably proud to be part of the small team of ten bereaved people who have fought so hard to make sure that his name, and the names of all our loved ones lost to covid, will never be forgotten. ❤️

Our beloved lost will never be forgotten. ❤️

This is the best news and has been a long time coming. Well done to the friends of the wall. Thank you for fighting long and hard for this 🫶

So grateful to Lambeth for their continued support. ❤️ #Lambeth love.lambeth.gov.uk/lambeth-plan...

We are so grateful to @clairekholland.bsky.social and Lambeth Council for their continued support. ❤️

It was an emotional moment as all ten volunteers were in the House of Lords to hear Baroness Twycross make this statement about our beloved memorial. ❤️

"They mattered. They still do. And they always will." ❤️

The National Covid Memorial Wall will be preserved to remember the lives lost during the pandemic.

Congratulations and respect to you all. ❤️ Lisa Nandy acknowledges that the grief of Covid bereaved "is profound. With friends and families unable to mark people’s passing in the normal ways it felt as if people were disappearing." We wrote about this in 'When This is Over': tinyurl.com/48v8nb8y

I have spent today with my fellow volunteers at both the Commons and the Lords, and am weak with happiness and tears. We have fought so hard and so long for this formal recognition of our memorial to our beloved covid dead. ❤️

This is good to hear. My fiancée's heart is on there so I'm relieved that it will be there permanently.

Mum's heart will remain ❤️

The volunteers were at Parliament today to hear the government announce that our beautiful memorial is to be made permanent. It was an emotional day, as we have fought so long and hard to ensure that our beloved dead are not forgotten. We are grateful and happy. ❤️

We will never forget. ❤️ #ColourADay #ColorADay #RedWed

Wishing you a peaceful night. ❤️

it’s a remarkable tribute, because it both emphasises the scale of the loss, but also humanises it

And another gorgeous shot of our wall... ❤️

A beautiful shot of our beloved memorial. ❤️

'The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.' ❤️ #RemembranceSunday

❤️ #RemembranceSunday #LestWeForger