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New Cross April meeting: The future of community services for the non-religious

When: Thursday 4th April, 7.30pmWhere: New Cross (map) Crisis, Comfort, and Celebration: The future of community services for the non-religious Many people will have attended a humanist wedding or funeral, but may not know that humanists provide a range of other community services, for instance providing pastoral care in hospitals and prisons, supporting those on… Read more »

Review: February social

On Monday 25th February a small group met up at the cosy Catford Constitutional Club for some evening drinks. Although the group was smaller than at our previous social, the conversation was still lively and touched on various topics including food ethics and production, brexit (!), foreign travel and various pieces of humanist news. Keep… Read more »

Review: Freedom from Torture

On 7th February we were joined by Sonya Sceats, CEO of Freedom from Torture, for a presentation and discussion. FFT was founded by a group of concerned medics who started documenting the forensic evidence of torture they were encountering…at first to monitor and campaign against this activity. It grew out of Amnesty International.  From this… Read more »

Bromley March meeting: Barbara Smoker

When: Wednesday 13th March, 2 – 4pmWhere: Bromley (map) Barbara Smoker, the eminent humanist and secularist, will be speaking on I was President of the National Secular Society for 25 years. You can read about Barbara’s newly released autobiography here.

March social: Visit to the V&A

When: Sunday 24 March 11amWhere: Victoria and Albert Museum, meeting by the information desk (map)Free – no ticket required The V&A museum houses an extraordinary permanent exhibition known as the Cast Courts. They contain exact replicas – made from plaster moulds – of some of the world’s greatest architectural and sculptured marvels such as Michelangelo’s… Read more »