AGM Agenda

Thursday, April 28th, 2011 | | No Comments

A Reminder that the AGM is next Tuesday (May 3rd) at 7pm in Leeds University  Business School 1.03.

As per LUU guidelines, here is the agenda of the AGM:

1.      Ratification of last years AGM minutes

2.      Presidents’ Report

3.      Finance Report

4.      Election of new President, Secretary and Treasurer

5.      Any Other Business

This is the one time of the year where you get a say in who runs the society and voice your opinion how the society is run.
If you wish to stand for election, no nomination is required, just turn up on the day and present your manifesto (no longer than 5 minutes). Voting shall be by show of hands and secret ballot, and decisions will be made by simple majority. Full details of committee positions available can be found here

We hope to see many of you there.

Notice of Annual General Meeting

Saturday, April 2nd, 2011 | | No Comments

Leeds Atheist Society are pleased to announce that our AGM will be held on the 3rd of May in Leeds University Business School, room 1,03 at 7pm.  The AGM is your chance to make an impact on the society and get involved with making it better next year!

Positions available:
President – Is the person that sets out the society’s objectives for the coming year and makes sure that they are met!  Responsibilities include setting the agenda and chairing of committee meetings, dealing with the union, Events management,  as well as being the poster person of the society
Secretary - Very much the secret power of the society! They will be responsible for taking the minutes of meetings, room bookings, keeping membership database up to date, and  being  the second point of contact with union.
Treasurer-The person that looks after the society’s finances. They are responsible for keeping the accounts up-to-date, coming up with fundraising strategies and will also function as our AHS representative this year.

These are the executive positions up for election however the current committee are happy to open up further positions in response to interest.  Those who do want to be on the committee next year should prepare a short (ca. 5 mins) presentation of their manifesto outlining what they can bring to the society and why they should be elected.

If you would like to know more about the roles or the society drop us an email or come along to one of our spring holiday socials at the Stick or Twist on Tuesday 7pm.

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Reason Week 2011

Thursday, March 17th, 2011 | | No Comments

On March 7th Leeds Atheist Society began their fifth annual Reason Week.  If you are not familiar with Leeds previous reason weeks, we have usually held it in a marquee on a central area of campus and the marquee was occupied for the whole week and we’ve had events all day!  Unfortunately the layout of the university campus has changed and there is no longer a suitable area to set up  a marquee; so the committee decided we would shift the focus towards a speaker orientated week.

We still wanted a presence on campus all week so we had a stall set up outside the university union and were running events from their and advertising our evening events.  At times it was a battle against uncharacteristic Leeds weather; we had to move our stall under cover to avoid rain and weigh down our leaflets to stop them blowing away!  Despite this we were still able to run our events, these included awareness discussions on Human Rights, Science and Medicine, Sex and Sexuality, Scepticism and Morality. We also had ever popular Make Your Own God:  a blue peter style arts and craft session, Ask an Atheist,  an afternoon promoting the Census Campaign and Debaptisms!

The main evening events started on Monday with a discussion on Religion as a Human Creation; the panel was made up of a Humanist, Sea of Faith and a Quaker.  It was good discussion although we didn’t get much further than agreeing religion was a human creation!  A side note, I still don’t really know what Sea of Faith are but enjoyed meeting and talking to them.

Tuesday we had Dr. Antony Lempert chair of the Secular Medical Forum who delivered a talk entitled ‘Cutting Religion out of Medicine’, it was entertaining but the serious message of the talk was put across very strongly, I highly recommend him if you want to know how religion still interferes with medicine in Britain today. His details will be available on the AHS speakers directory soon.  Afterwards we headed down to our favourite karaoke bar!

Wednesday saw chief executive of the British Humanist Association Andrew Copson come up from London to talk about humanist ethics, he was enjoyed by all and we then went down to a local restaurant with Andrew and had some fantastic food!

Thursday we headed down to Humanist Society of West Yorkshire who were hosting a debate on Humanist chaplins, the debater for was head of the humanist chaplaincy network Gjisbert Stoet and chair of HSoWY chair Paul Dean argued against.  Both sides made very compelling arguments and certainly give us all a lot to think about on the issue.

Friday we had Mark Edon talking about Creationism in the UK and the work that the British Centre for Science Education do to combat it.  Generally thought of as an American problem, but is becoming one in the UK too; one example Mark brought along a genuine looking GCSE biology textbook that taught creationist pseudoscience and this book was sent out to secondary schools across the UK! The BCSE details will be available on the AHS speakers directory very soon.

The final event of the week was LAS’s famous All night debate we were outside the union from 10pm to 3am chatting to, mostly drunk, students over hot drinks and sweets. We had some entertaining discussions, and some idiotic ones such as one student who shouted at us for being atheists then walked off saying ‘I don’t believe in God but I’m not an atheist!’

I thoroughly enjoyed coordinating Reason Week 2011! The highlight of the week for me was all night debate, after Reason week had finished we had a couple of hours sleep and then headed to London for the AHS convention!

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We need your books

Thursday, March 10th, 2011 | | No Comments

One of the great initiatives going on here in Leeds is the Humanist Library. This is a project to build a freethought library, right here in Leeds, filled with books on humanism, secularism, theology, philosophy, science and all manner of related topics.

The project was founded in December and has really kicked into hear now, but needs your help – we need donations of books to help us build the library, so if you have any items you’re willing to donate that would be appropriate for the project, please get in touch.

Enquiry 2011 Conference

Monday, February 28th, 2011 | | No Comments

We’re planning a group trip up to the Enquiry 2011 Conference which is taking place April 16-17th in Edinburgh. The line up is already looking pretty amazing – Professor Paul Braterman, Professor Richard Wiseman, Robin Ince, Carmen De Cruz and indeed our own Gijsbert Stoet and Chris Worfolk.

Tickets are £35 for students (£45 for non-students) and we’ll be sorting out some group accommodation and travel as well. Speak to a committee member asap if you want to come.

Next Tuesday’s interfaith panel

Thursday, November 4th, 2010 | | No Comments

We’re pleased to announce we already have an amazing range of speakers for next Tuesday’s interfaith panel. Following on from the Perspective Course session we ran earlier in the year, we will have a representative from Scientology as well as Paganism, Judaism, Humanism and others.

The panel starts at 7pm in meeting room 8 in the union – see you there! This is not one to be missed…

New website for 2010/2011

Friday, August 20th, 2010 | | No Comments

I’m pleased to announce our brand new website for 2010/2011.

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AGM results

Sunday, May 2nd, 2010 | | No Comments

I would like to publicly congratulate the Leeds Atheist Society for electing a dynamic, enthusiastic and hopefully hard working new committee. I truly believe they are up to the almost impossible task of making Leeds Atheist society even better! For those that were not able to make the AGM, they have some great ideas and judging by their speeches we will be inviting more outside experts to come talk.

I’d also like to congratulate the following for getting elected (including myself :D )

John-George Salter – President
James Murray – Secretary
Michael Bramham – Treasurer
Chris Worfolk – Vice President
Jonathan Lomax – Meetings Co-ordinator
Nicola Walker – Interfaith Co-ordinator
George Shore – Publicity Officer
Nicola Young Jackson – The National Federation of Atheist Humanist and Secular Student Societies (AHS) Representative

Told you it was a pretty amazing new committee! Chris will get the profiles of the new committee up shortly.

I’d also like to thank Norman Ralph and Sophie Stringfellow for their four and two years service to the society respectfully. Both having served as president. We wish you all the best for the future. If you are stuck for something to do at 6pm on Tuesdays I suggest you watch the Running Man recruitment video on loop and reminisce on the good times. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJrn6SHVn8U&playnext_from=TL&videos=mz6vqv21Tek

My present to Sophie, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KJwiE0ddcA&playnext_from=TL&videos=2ut_uFsZBns

My present to Norman,

Election

Friday, April 23rd, 2010 | | No Comments

Want to run the most successfull non-religious student society in the UK? Then run for a committee position at our AGM this Tuesday.

The posititions up for election are:
President (exc)
Vice President
Secretary (exec)
Treasurer (exec)
Meetings co-ordinator
Interfaith co-ordinator (including courses)
Publicity Officer
AHS Rep

N.B. AHS Rep and exec must be students and it is prefered that Publicity officer will be also.

If you would like to know more about the roles all of the current committee will be in the Reason Week Marquee from 7pm tonight and most of us will be there all day too. Feel free too email us with questions.

Election 2009/2010

Friday, April 23rd, 2010 | | No Comments

Want to run the most successful non-religious student society in the UK? Then run for a committee position at our AGM this Tuesday.

The posititions up for election are:
President (exc)
Vice President
Secretary (exec)
Treasurer (exec)
Meetings co-ordinator
Interfaith co-ordinator (including courses)
Publicity Officer
AHS Rep

N.B. AHS Rep and exec must be students and it is prefered that Publicity officer will be also.

If you would like to know more about the roles all of the current committee will be in the Reason Week Marquee from 7pm tonight and most of us will be there all day too. Feel free too email us with questions.
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