AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL NORTH WEST CONFERENCE - NOT POWERLESS The North West Conference was held on Saturday 4 th November at Lancaster University. It was very well organised by Zara Ahmed and the Lancaster University student group. The...

‘Stopping Indefinite Detention in the UK’ Fylde Coast Amnesty International will be hosting an open meeting at 7.30 pm on Thursday 28 September at the World Healing Centre, 476 Lytham Rd, Blackpool, FY4 1JF The speaker will be Trevor...

On Monday August 7th Fylde Coast Amnesty decided to have a social event instead of the regular meeting. The party was held at the wonderful World Healing Centre in Blackpool, hosted by the ebullient Anne Nyquist. Enormous quantities of...

Refugees “LIVING IN TERROR,” Dawn Judd tells the Fylde Coast Amnesty meeting On June 5 th 2017 Around 2,000 refugees are still living in forests, fields and allotments around Calais, said Dawn who is a recently-returned volunteer –...

Fylde Coast Amnesty supports Blackpool Pride 2017 On Saturday June 10 th Jennifer, Anne , Holly, Alan , Phoebe , Pat and Norah set off to join the Blackpool Pride Parade – it rained! There was a huge parade which laughed, drummed, sang...

On June 1 st 2017 Fylde Coast Amnesty hosted a Fund raising Fashion Show which was run by the professional charity fund raising company, Colours. It was held at Lytham Cricket club and well over 80 ladies attended. The male members of...

Last weekend three people representing the Fylde Coast Group (Jennifer, Anne and Norah) set off for the conference in Nottingham. As usual it was a stimulating and inspirational weekend. The key note speaker was Brendan Cox, husband of...