Since switching my own lifestyle focus from London to NE England, I’ve been monitoring and attending like-minded events locally wherever I can.
Skeptics in the Pub – Homepage
(Has original links since 1999 under The Skeptic Magazine founded 1987. Undated / not-updated. Skeptical Enquirer (US) Magazine advertised. Skeptic Magazine (UK) only in archive and on-line. On-line material – columns & blog posts not dated, events all 2017, but Twitter handle active, and advertisng Skeptic and related events.)
- Teesside SitP Site has FB link and Twitter handle
Only one event in diary. - York SitP Site has a blog link
- Newcastle SitP Site has diary and links to other MeetUp and social media sites.
Diary only one event into the future.
[Next nearest are: Leeds SitP and Edinburgh SitP]
Humanists UK (formerly BHA) – Homepage.
Has a local events page, though information looks very patchy?
- Teesside Humanists (Middlesbrough)
FB Page only? No obvious connection to HUK? - North Yorks Humanists (York)
Active and connected to HUK, have their own website. - North-East Humanists (Newcastle)
Active and connected to HUK, have their own website.
(2018 HUK event is in NCL this year)
[Next nearest are: West Yorkshire Humanists (Leeds), Sheffield Humanist Society, Hull and East Riding Humanist Group, and the Humanist Society Scotland (Edinburgh and more).]
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NSS – Secularism is an important focus – to disentangle establishment and freedoms – in discourse as well as real life – so we can have proper constructive (unpolarised) dialogue on valid rational / humanist issues.
Pint of Science UK? / Thirst for Science US? Has regional activities too.
CFI? “science and/or reason”
CFI (UK) now part of BHA / HUK and affiliate only of CFI (US)
CFI (US) now merged with Dawkins Foundation (for R&S)
Digital Human / Digital Humanists / Digital Humanities?
Spoonful of Knowledge