Minehead

The theme for Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) 2019 was 'Torn from Home'. This fitted well with Amnesty International's global campaign 'I Welcome Refugees'. To mark the day, the Minehead AI Local Group hosted a drop in session on 24...

Our January newsletter includes a round up of our group's activities in December and early January, including our Write for Rights coffee morning, our entry in the Minehead Christmas Tree Festival, the group's winter social and a...

Our third Write for Rights event this year was on Friday 14 December, when we hosted the weekly coffee morning in the Avenue Methodist Church and invited the public in to sign cards and letters. We chose five cases out of the Write for...

Our Amnesty tree is on display among 40 trees at the annual Xmas Tree Festival at the Avenue Methodist Church in Minehead. The Festival is on from 6 to 12 December. The theme this year is 'Celebrating the Seasons' so our tree includes...

Our November/December newsletter includes reports of our Write for Rights events in November, as well as information about our forthcoming coffee morning and card/letter signing on Friday 14 December. There are also reports of actions...

We launched our 2018 Write for Rights (WfR) campaign with a stall at a coffee morning at Carhampton church on 3 November. Although those present were mostly interested in drinking coffee, perusing the stalls and chatting, we managed to...

Our October newsletter includes notes about our recent group meeting where local groups' trainer, Susan Mew, led a presentation and discussion on Amnesty International's global campaign about the illegal settlements in the Occupied...

The September newsletter includes accounts of our summer events, and in particular, our social evening where we said a formal thank you and good-bye to Chris and Christina Lawson, the founders and stalwarts of the Minehead Group. We...

The Minehead Amnesty Group once again held a stall at the Roadwater Fete. This year it was on Saturday 28 July, a particularly windy and showery day. The gazebo didn't like the gusty wind so we had to take it in turns to hold on to it...

Our latest newsletter includes a summary of the key points from a very interesting talk on human rights in India, which Cherry Bird gave to the Minehead group at our July meeting. There is also a report of the successful day out for...