Our first newsletter of 2020 reports on our activities in November and January 2019, including our two Write for Rights events and our tree at the Minehead Christmas Tree Festival. It also includes 'actions you can take this month'...

We had a busy time in Minehead, writing letters and signing cards for people featured in the 2019 Write for Rights campaign. A letter writing afternoon on 14 November resulted in 39 letters written. In addition, two members wrote a...

Our February newsletter includes a report of the talk on Modern Slavery that took place in Minehead on 23 January. We were pleased to welcome 21 people to this open meeting, including several members of the Taunton Group. We were...

On Friday 28 February teams braved wind and rain to take part in an excellent quiz in aid of Amnesty International. The Humber family from Withycombe have run a quiz in aid of Amnesty for many years and local Amnesty members would like...

On Friday 6 March members had a stall on the Avenue in Minehead, and were delighted that the weather stayed fine! We invited the public to sign letters and a petition on behalf of women in Iran and Ecuador who have been harassed or...

Four members of the Minehead Group attended Amnesty's South West Regional Conference on Saturday 7 March. We had an interesting day hearing inspiring talks by brave human rights activists from Brazil and Venezuela. The Director of...

Our March/April newsletter reports on a number of events and activities we were able to fit in before the 'lockdown'! These include the annual quiz, street stall for International Women's Day and our attendance at the SW Regional...

Our latest newsletter includes our regular columns of actions you can take this month, as well as diary dates. There is also a summary of items taken from the group monthly mailing from AIUK, news from Zoom meetings of local group...

The Minehead AI Group marked Refugee Week rather differently this year, owing to the lockdown and physical distancing restrictions. So instead of a big AmnesTea or other event, we asked members to invite a friend or two to share a cup...

This month's newsletter includes reports of recent online group meetings, as well as our very successful mini AmnesTeas, where we raised £500 for our local refugee support group. The main action we are asking readers to take is to...