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A change to our programme means that we shall be dedicating this week's meeting, on Thursday 11th April, to writing cards to prisoners of conscience and their families and letters to the authorities responsible for their incarceration...
Our programme of meetings and events for 2024 is almost complete - although subject to further additions as opportunities arise for us to promote the work of Amnesty in Chipping Norton and our neighbouring towns and villages. Check out...
Members of the Chipping Norton Amnesty Group and representatives of the Town Council were this evening joined by some 40 members of the public to hold a silent vigil for peace in Gaza-Israel. This vigil demonstrated our support for the...
Our Group will be meeting this Thursday evening, 9th November, to write cards and letters in support of the 10 cases featured in this year's Write for Rights campaign. A group member has produced lots of lovely cards which we shall be...
On the 78th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations, commemorated by United Nations Day on 24th October, members of the Chipping Norton Amnesty Group joined with representatives of the Town Council to raise the United Nations...
In what might be described as a "timely meeting", this month's guest speaker, Ian Cave, described scenes he'd witnessed earlier this year in the city of Hebron in the West Bank. He spent 3 months there as part of a mission with the...
....this time, on 30th September, in Witney for our third street collection of the year. We've previously collected in Chipping Norton and Woodstock. Unfortunately we arrived in Witney to find that the town had been taken over by a...
This month, in lieu of a business meeting, we held a social soiree to mark the 30th birthday of the Chipping Norton Group. Twenty three of us enjoyed a balmy evening with an excellent 'bring a plate' buffet and, for a change, time to...
On a wet and windless morning members of Chippy Amnesty joined with representatives of Asylum Welcome, the Charlbury Refugee Action Group, Chipping Norton Town Council and the Deputy Lieutenant of Oxfordshire to raise the Refugee Flag...
Nine members of Chippy Amnesty took part in our vigil to remember the Tiananmen Square crackdown and subsequent restrictions in China. This was our first vigil held in daylight and so we held symbolic candles plus blank sheets of white...