Windsor Humanists Annual Review 2018

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 opposite is taken from our website windsorhumanists.com  and provides a summary of these events. 

2018 highlights for me were:

• SWAMI17 - Windsor Humanists collaborated for the second year running with the WAMCF and SFP to run a series of successful Community Street Showcases during July in Slough, and Windsor. 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.
• WAMCF 2018 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.  In March this year Windsor HUmanists hosted the last in the 3 year series of Dialogues - with theapt title What Does it Mean to be Human?  Over 60 people turned out to the  at the Austen-Leigh & Baldwin Institute Community Hall ably parked by Roger and ably fed and watered by the team led by Lucy.  Thanks you to everyone for making this such a great evening.
• Local Humanist School Speakers - we have now spoken some 20 times in local Schools in the last few years. Through our involvement with the Slough Faith Partnership Windsor Humanist Chair Anthony Lewis was also invited to speak briefly at a multi faith schools conference in Eden Islamic Girls Acadmey  on British Values.  Also WIndsor HUmanists presented Humanism to the Slough Sacre RE Teachers Conference and made contact with the Berkshire Sacre Association.
• Local Visibility & Publicity - the Chair Anthony Lewis has again written a number of ‘Thoughts for the Week’ in the local Observer and been interviewed several times in 2018  on Radio Berkshire about Humanism - you can listen to this interview on the new dedidcated page for these types of events on our website.

Focus and theme for 2019 will be 'My Humanism' - watch this space for news of speakers, events, dicussions, debates and visits coming soon!  Happy New Year Year everyone. 

warmest humanists hugs Anthony