Tonight marks the third Clap For Our Carers event, which began on Thursday 26 March as the brainchild of Dutch Londoner Annemarie Plas. She introduced the idea on social media, after seeing a similar tribute to healthcare workers take off in her homeland of the Netherlands.

“Everybody either knows someone who is working on the frontline or you’ve seen the images of the nurses who have these marks from wearing the facemasks, so it resonated with a lot of people,” Plas told Creative Review.

“And it’s not just the NHS workers, it’s everybody that is still out there keeping our world indoors going.”

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