The BHA has today confirmed that they are already planning for Humanist Week 2011 after a successful week in 2010. For Humanist Week 2010 (last week) over 90 packs of materials were sent out to people who wanted to celebrate Humanism in their local communities. As well as this, the BHA held an event jointly with the South Place Ethical Society on Humanism, Philosophy and the Arts which attracted over 100 people. The theme of the week was Humanist Heritage.

Pepper Harow, Campaigns Officer, stated, ‘We are very pleased with how the week went this year. People really got into the spirit of the theme, sending in their humanist heroes, organising events and setting up the displays.

The website that was set up as the week’s legacy, www.humanistheritage.org.uk is growing in content and we were also pleased to announce the opening of our archive at the Bishopsgate Institute. We are already looking forward to next year’s week.’

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For further comment or information, please contact Pepper Harow, 020 7462 4992.

Humanist Week 2010 ran from 21st-27th June. Read more about Humanist Week.

Read more about Humanist Heritage.

The British Humanist Association (BHA) is the national charity representing and supporting the non-religious and campaigning for an end to religious privilege and discrimination based on religion or belief.