Events

farnham HUMANISTS

We meet twice a month.

We meet each month at the Hop Blossom Pub, Long Garden Walk, Farnham, Surrey, GU9 7HX just off Castle Street in Farnham on a Sunday evening at 7.30 for talks and discussions please see the current programme for these events .

Also, on the first Wednesday of every month at 8.00, we have an informal social gathering at The Fox, Lower Bourne, Farnham GU10 3PH.

All are welcome at both events.
Enquiries to Dr David Savage on 01252 794021 or by e-mail david.savage44@btinternet.com

Our 2012 programme also includes rambles/pub lunches, a garden party and our annual debate - click on Current Programme above for details.

Events coming up:

Previous Events

Previous events have included:		Our annual debates:
"Bluebell Walk" May 2010	July 2010 Lewes with Berkshire Humanists re Tom Paine	" First past the post is the best method of electing our MPs” November 2010 Click below for debate brief Electoral Reform debate
Visit to Down House - Darwin's Residence April 2006 Members had a fascinating day visiting Darwin's House in April 2006.		“Faith-based schools should form no part of the state education system" November 2005
Annual Dinner Every January we have an annual dinner for members and friends at a local pub:		Click below for brief on the debate: Faith Schools debate
‘The moral aspects of global warming’ Sept 2005 Mayer Hillman, Emeritus member Policy Studies Institute Climate Talk	History of Freethought Talk by Jim Herrick Dec 2005 History of Freethought	"Voluntary Euthanasia is not acceptable" November 2006 Click below for brief on the debate: Voluntary Euthanasia debate
Visits to conferences: Members from Farnham Humanists regularly attend the AGMs of both the British Humanists Association and National Secular Society. Sometimes they go further afield e.g. International Humanist Ethical Union conference to celebrate the 100 year anniversary of the separation in France of	Church and State in Paris in July 2005 and the International Humanist and Ethical Union’s annual conference in June in Washington D.C in 2008	"Can there be a just war?" November 2007 Click below for brief on debate: Just War debate
Rambles, garden party, pub meals and summer boating trips e.g. in 2009:		"Britain needs nuclear power" October 2008 Click below for debate brief: Nuclear debate
Boating 2005		"Britain should become a secular state" November 2009 Click below for debate brief Secular State debate
Other previous talks, visits and discussions have included: 2011 ‘Police Chaplaincy’ Rev Jan Moore March 2011 ‘British Humanist Association and How It Works’ Naomi Philips BHA February 2011 Annual Dinner January 2011 2010 ‘An Evening’s Entertainment on a Humanist Theme’, Christine Haywood December 2010 Simon Johnson ‘Bell’s Inequality – an argument for the existence of multiple universes?’. October 2011 Click for brief summary ‘International Humanism’, Jim Herrick; Click here for talk plus dialogue with Surrey County Council on local Equality issues September 2010 Protest the Pope march September 2010 Protest the Pope photos ‘What is Lost and What is Gained by Being Non-religious?’, group discussion July 2010 Summer Garden Party June 2010 Stall with Organ Donation Promotion June 2010 'Whitehall Civil Servant - Yes Minister'. Jo Huddleston June 2010 A walk in the bluebell woods and pub lunch May 2010Walk May 2010 photos ‘Language. The Big Idea’, Keith Haywood May 2010 Group discussion "What Humanism means to me" April 2010 "The Moral Maze", members discussions on moral problems March 2010 Michael Irwin on "Old Age rational Suicide" February 2010 2009 Canon Derek Holbird Director of the Education Diocese of Guildford talking about Faith Based Schools December 2009 Alec Leggatt about Construction Projects and the Hindhead Tunnel October 2009 Farnham Humanists Ceremony Officiants talking about Humanist Ceremonies September 2009 Barbara Burfoot about The Sea of Faith July 2009 Why Humanists should not believe in representative democracy by Jane Cullen June 2009 Desmond King-Hele talking about Erasmus Darwin May 2009 Jim Herrick leading a discussion on Censorship March 2009 Talk on infinity by Alec Leggatt April 2009 - Thinking about infinity Pre 2009 Dennis Cobell, Former President of the National Secular Society "The Future of Humanism" Discussion on "Humanism: anti-religious or a Humanist philosophy?" Discussion on the "Age of Enlightenment" "Science or religion?" Talk by Vincent Marks author of "Panic Nation" "Islam" by Mufti Liaquat Ali from the Shah Jehan Mosque in Woking, "Do we have free will?" by Dr Jeremy Stangroom of The Philosophy Magazine Talk by Hanne Stinson, Chief Executive of The British Humanist Association. Talk on Buddhism by Carolin Bevan a practicing Buddhist. Discussion ‘What Humanism means to me’. Talk, ‘Persecution of the religious and non religious in today’s world’. Harold Hillman Amnesty International Discussion, ‘Is prostitution moral?’ Talk by Norman Bacrac South Place Ethical Society, editor of the Ethical Record. Religion and Crime – Mike Adams Visit to the Hellfire Club Discussion "A Humanist’s attitude to the Church" Visit to the Hindhead Tunnel excavations Talk on Quaker Beliefs by Michael Gittins Dr Richard Thomas on Africa Talk on Adoption, reality and practice by Joe Ansah		Stalls in the street and at fairs.