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January 2019
Interesting Talks Oxford
Keeping track of interesting talks, lectures, & seminars on a huge range of topics, in and around Oxford. Sometimes involves a small charge but often free.
Find out more »February 2019
SitPO: Transport Poverty: Lived Reality or Neo-Liberal Conspiracy? by Prof Karen Lucas
Is transport poverty an empirically proven phenomenon based on the travel behaviours and experiences of low income populations in the UK? Or is it – like other many other aspects of deprivation, such as energy poverty, housing shortage, health inequalities, a systematically and deliberately constructed denial of resources to marginalise the lower classes? When poor people are directly asked about the problem of transport, they most often talk about their inability to access jobs, services, and facilities rather than transport…
Find out more »Members’ discussion and pub lunch
Sunday morning discussion group in a member's home on the outskirts of Oxford, followed by lunch at a nearby pub. Re-trying a formula which worked well in the past. Members only, due to limited seating capacity. Members please be on the look-out for an e-mail early in 2019. Places for the discussion will be on a 'first come' basis, though no restriction on numbers for the lunch afterwards.
Find out more »Oxford Humanists talk: Sushila Dhall on the work of Oxford’s Refugee Resource.
Sushila Dhall is Therapeutic Services Manager at Refugee Resource, a therapeutic charity specialising in the mental, emotional and practical needs of refugees, asylum seekers and vulnerable migrants, offering 1:1 and group therapy, mentoring, a woman's social and educational group, a men's service, an interpreters' support group, advice and advocacy and a social inclusion service. Take a look at their web-site to see the background to this interesting local charity, then come along to hear Shushila tell us more. https://www.refugeeresource.org.uk/
Find out more »March 2019
AGM: Drinks & nibbles from 7.30pm
Our review of the last twelve months and election of members to our committee for the forthcoming year. Our membership is small and the committee is aware that there are only a few members able and/or willing to take an active role in our organisation and activities. At this year’s AGM we will be proposing some important changes both to our organisational structure and our activities. We hope as many members as possible will make the effort to come and…
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