Our latest newsletter is ready for you to download now. The contents include:Humanists for a Better World (H4BW), the Climate March on November 29th, a pair of successful Cancer Research fund-raisers, an account of life as an inner-cityprimary school head teacher, putting faces to the names of our committee, and the usual dates for your diary. Click here to download the PDF.

Due to illness, we regret that our ceremonies team will be severely diminished for the foreseeable future. We may be able to help with a small number of funerals in the Ipswich or Colchester areas for families already known to us and we can advise anyone who wants to do a DIY funeral. It’s advisable to contact us by email or phone us on 01473 658828 before making any arrangements.

Our Chairperson Denis Johnstonandhis son Colin talked about their attitude to faith (they don’t have any) withlocal BBC journalist Jon Wright. The resulting conversation is on the BBC’s Faith in the World Week website. Click here to hear what they said, or some of it. The full interview can be heard here. (From our home page, click on the title to access the links.)

Every year we remind people why it’s not good to get involved with the Samaritan’s Purse scheme, Operation Christmas Child– search our website for previous posts. An article in Humanist Life explains the reasons, or some of them. Apart from the homophobia and evangelism aimed at children, it’s a huge waste of money. Those who work in aid organisations have an expression, SWEDOW, or “Stuff we don’t want”. Every time there’s a disaster,people in need can expect a deluge of stuff collected by well-meaning people.