Windsor Humanists Annual Review 2017

2018 was another busy year with 6 Speaker Events, our usual monthly Tuesday socials and further development of our Dialogue Activities and School Speakers Campaigns.   The graphic overleaf is taken from our website windsorhumanists.com  and provides a summary of these events.  2017 highlights for me were:

• SWAMI17 - Windsor Humanists collaborated with the WAMCF and SFP to run a series of successful Community Street Showcases during July in Slough, Windsor and Maidenhead.   SWAMI are planning to re-run the Community Streets in 2018.  SWAMI is a visible example of people of faith and the non religious working together to connect the diverse communities across our local 3 towns - swami17.com  - Windsor Humanists helped secured a grant from the Department of Local Government to fund the initial year to set up SWAMI. 
• WAMCF 2017 Dialogues - a number of Windsor Humanists attended these well supported Dialogues where people of all faiths and none meet at local faith venues to discuss a topical life issue.  Windsor Humanists were able to represent the non religious perspective with people of faith in a respectful way.  I believe that many people of faith rarely encounter an ‘open’ atheist so I think it important that we participate in these Dialogues to locally raise the visibility of humanism.
• WAMCF Dialogues 2018 - Windsor Humanist are hosting one of the 2018 Dialogues on Tuesday 27th March at the Austen-Leigh & Baldwin Institute Hall just up the road from the Waterman Arms.  We will need to host the event, provide tea and cake etc for our guests so will need volunteers to make the tea and man the kitchen and tea urns, plus set up and tidy up afterwards!
• Local Humanist School Speakers - Roger, Caroline and myself are now trained Schools Speakers and have spoken at over 10 local Schools in the last year ranging from public schools such as Windsor Boys, Burnham Grammar, an Oxford Girls College to the private Shiplake College.  Through our involvement with the Slough Faith Partnership Windsor Humanist Chair Anthony Lewis was also invited to speak briefly at a schools conference in Eton College on British Values.
• Local Visibility & Publicity - the Chair Anthony Lewis has written a number of ‘Thoughts for the Week’ in the local Observer and been interviewed on Radio Berkshire about Humanism - you can listen to this interview on the sidebar on the front page of our website if you missed this!

warmest humanists hugs Anthony