Previous Events

Dec: Festive evening social
Nov: Public Debate on faith schools
Oct: Chris Street’s led discussion about There is nothing science cannot illuminate and elucidate
Sept: Kauser Akhtar’s talk about Women and Sharia Law
July: Dr Sara Melly’s talk about Religion in Healthcare: What’s the Harm?
June: 10th Anniversary Celebration Garden Party – see photos and write up here!
May: Amy Walden’s talk about Humanist pastoral care in prisons
April: Humanist Celebrant Ailsa Davies facilitated our Ethical Jury
April: Exploring Life – A Non-religious View Sharing views of life’s big questions
March: John Christensen’s talk about Injustice and Tax Havens
February: Prof Jim Al-Khalili’s Guildford talk “Written in the stars…”
February: AGM and Talk on “Humanism in Education” by Sara Passmore Head of Education and Promotion at the British Humanist Association
January: Annual Dinner Lion and Lamb Cafe

2013

Festive buffet and Face Quiz at Jennie and Simon’s December
Remembrance day Wreath laying November
“What’s happening to our NHS?” Panel Discussion, November
‘Climate Change’ Dr Peter Stott, Head of Climate Monitoring at the Met Office, October Peter Stott’s Presentation
“Interviews with Afghan Women”, talk by Peggy Kelsey October
Visit to Darwin’s House, Downe in Kent September
Valued object shared with group led by Sue Willson, September
Garden Party at John and Ruth’s August
‘Meaning of Life’ Talk/discussion David Savage July
‘Gay and Civil Partnerships’ Caroline Bowlby, lecturer in family law June
Summer walk and pub lunch organised by Roy Wheedon June
‘Equality and Diversity in the Police’ Mick Day, Diversity Manager Surrey Police May
‘Judaism- a personal view’ Peter Susman April
‘Religious Child Maltreatment (and how to stop it)’ Janet Heimlich March
AGM and Talk on ‘IHEU and Humanism in Uganda’ by Bob Churchill, Communications Officer IHEU February
Annual Dinner Cafe Rouge March postponed from January due to snow

2012

2011

“Victoria Sponge Quiz” December
Members talks: Alan Montgomery ‘Life in a divided Ireland’ November
Prof Richard Norman ‘Humanism and the arts’ October
‘Conscientious Objection’ Alan Howarth political philosopher & author September
Members talks: ‘Citizens Rights to Social Care Services in an Era of Cuts’ Belinda Schwehr July
Garden party at Alan and Linda’s
An Ethical Jury run by Michael Imison June
Walk and pub lunch June
‘Skeptics in the Pub movement & Winchester Skeptics’ James Thomas May
Members talks. S. Clough ‘Being’, G. Thomas ‘What good are the Arts’April
‘Police Chaplaincy’ Rev Jan Moore March
AGM and ‘British Humanist Association and How It Works’ Naomi Philips BHA February
Annual Dinner January

2010

‘An Evening’s Entertainment on a Humanist Theme’, Christine Haywood December
Simon Johnson ‘Bell’s Inequality – an argument for the existence of multiple universes?’. October Summary of Simon’s talk Oct 2011
‘International Humanism’, Jim Herrick; Click here for talk
plus dialogue with Surrey County Council on local Equality issues September
Protest the Pope march September Protest the Pope photos
‘What is Lost and What is Gained by Being Non-religious?’, group discussion July
Summer Garden Party June at Meg’s
Stall with Organ Donation Promotion June
‘Whitehall Civil Servant – Yes Minister’. Jo Huddleston June
A walk in the bluebell woods and pub lunch May 2010
‘Language. The Big Idea’, Keith Haywood May
Group discussion “What Humanism means to me” April
“The Moral Maze”, members discussions on moral problems March
Michael Irwin on “Old Age rational Suicide” February

2009

Canon Derek Holbird Director of the Education Diocese of Guildford talking about Faith Based Schools December
Alec Leggatt about Construction Projects and the Hindhead Tunnel October
Farnham Humanists Ceremony Officiants talking about Humanist Ceremonies September
Barbara Burfoot about The Sea of Faith July
Why Humanists should not believe in representative democracy by Jane Cullen June
Desmond King-Hele talking about Erasmus Darwin May
Jim Herrick leading a discussion on Censorship March
Talk on infinity by Alec Leggatt April – THINKING ABOUT INFINITY Alec Leggatt

Pre 2009

Dennis Cobell, Former President of the National Secular Society “The Future of Humanism”
Facing the moral implications of global warming Mayer Hillman, Senior Fellow Emeritus, Policy Studies Institute The Maltings, Farnham, 23 September 2007
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

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