2019 was another busy year with 2 Speaker Events, our usual monthly Tuesday socials and the holding of the Community Street Showcases in Windsor and Slough Town Centre.   The graphic opposite is taken from our website windsorhumanists.com  and provides a summary of last years events. 

2019 highlights for me were:

• Events - Chief Executive  Stephen Evans from the National Secular Society visited to talk to us about their campaigns to promote secularism in the UK - it was an honour to have Stephen visit us and his talk was followed by a lively discussion which took an unexpected focus on genital cutting of children!  For the first time we had a film showing of the Islam and the Future of Intolerance followed by a great discussion.  We also for the first time had a book review evening in September which was enjoyed and generated a lively discussion. We’ll see if we can repeat these again this year on different topics.
• SWAMI17 - Windsor Humanists collaborated for the third 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
• Local Humanist School Speakers - we have been co-opted onto the local East Berkshire SACRE as a non voting member.  The hope is through this we will raise the profile further of the non religious perspective and increase our invites to speak in local schools.  Watch this space!

I would like to thank Roger Heppleston so much for stepping in to hold the reins so admirable organising two monthly presentations and discussions between March and August when I was indisposed (wrecked would be a better term!) getting a new right hip after a enduring a serious injury whilst walking in Ireland in March.  I did not see that one coming at all!  I’d also like to thank very much Andrea Sparrow from Slough Faith Partnership  and Paul Samuels from the WAMCF who both also stepped in to organise the SWAMI Community Street Showcases in Slough and Windsor respectively so that we did not have to cancel the events due to my mishap.

Our focus and theme for 2020 for our fifth year of existence will be ‘Humanism with Humour' - refer to our Meetup page for details.  Happy New Year Year everyone - lets have fun this new decade and move on from the dreaded B word lol   warmest humanists hugs,  Anthony

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