Thanks to everyone who supported us for two events at Bournemouth Library and, for the first time, at The Social Canteen in Boscombe. One of our group also got her church involved – the Parish of Four Saints.

Many thanks to the library staff for their help in facilitating the events, ensuring everything was in place for us, and then individually showing interest in the campaign and signing cards. And many thanks to Bournemouth Foodbank for helping us bring W4R to a new venue.

Please visit our earlier post to read more about W4R, see videos on the individual cases and Take Action.  The campaign continues throughout January.

Many thanks to everyone who came to our Quiz Night, We had a great evening and raised over £250. Special thanks to the Brunswick again for giving us a great venue, for free. Also David Rogers for setting the questions and Sally Hawksworth for being the hostess. If you missed you can download copies below.

We also marked the anniversary of the UK Human Rights Act being signed into law – 25 years ago. After the quiz we gave a cheer and raised a toast to celebrate.

The Human Rights Act helps us hold authorities to account when things go wrong. The current Governments plans to replace the Human Rights Act with a “Bill of Rights” were, fortunately, abandoned in June. But we must remain vigilant and remind people why the Human Rights Act is important and worth defending.

Autumn Quiz Questions

Autumn Quiz Questions with Answers

Picture Quiz

Picture Quiz Answers

Our Music Benefit event, held at Chaplin’s Bar in Boscombe on Saturday, was a great success – no mean feat given the competition for public attention (and occasional noise!) from the airshow. We collected over £1600.  This couldn’t have happened without the generous support of many musicians, poetry readers, face painters, cake makers as well as raffle prize sponsors. Special thanks are due to Nick Humphrey, Conrad Barr and the owner Harry Secombe, who made the bar and garden at Chaplin’s available all day, and to their lovely staff who couldn’t have been more helpful. The performers on the day were…
Music:-

Some of you may remember attending the Journeymen Theatre’s performance of Feeding the Darkness (about state-sanctioned torture), a few years ago. This will be the very last performance of Journeymen as Lynn and Dave are retiring.

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We had a stall at the Boscombe Increase the Peace Festival on Sunday May 7th. This was a first for us and proved very successful. We featured two individual campaigns, Chow Hang-tung and Salma al-Shehab, plus the Stop the Cruel Immigration Bill campaign.