Minehead

Our April/May newsletter includes a report on the 2019 AIUK AGM & conference that three of our Minehead members attended. There is also an account of our successful street stall on International Women's Day and our latest letter...

On Friday 8 March, International Women's Day, the Minehead Group held their usual letter signing stall on the town's main shopping street. We were very lucky to have a break in the previously wet and windy weather, and the stall and...

The February/March newsletter from the Minehead Group includes reports of our commemoration event for Holocaust Memorial Day on 24 January and also our annual quiz on 22 February. There are campaign updates on 'I Welcome Refugees' and...

Our annual quiz took place on 22 February at the Minehead & District Social Club. As usual, it was superbly organised by the Humber family, with interesting questions delivered with clarity and just the right speed, a rapid no-nonsense...

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...