Non-Prophet Week - Feb 2011

Well done everyone that took part in our first ever Non-Prophet Week last year. You should all be extremely proud. Photos from the week can be seen here. We raised £2,221.80 (including 50Euros converted to £41.90), donated 5 pints of blood, four bags of stuff and 27.5 man hours were spent planting trees during the week.

Hopefully we have learnt from last year's mistakes. For instance, instead of being 7th - 13th February next year it will be in November, when societies are less busy.

In order to participate in Non-Prophet Week you had to be an AHS member, a local Humanist or Secular group, or a Skeptics in the Pub group. The money raised had to go to a charity which does not promote atheist, Humanist or secularist values in the UK or Republic of Ireland.

The groups societies got the choose the charity and the following charities benefited from the week: Book Aid International, Amnesty International, East African Playgrounds, Water Aid, Medecins Sans Frontiere, Volunteers for Educational Support and Learning, One World Action, Childreach International, NSPCC, Sense about Science, Tayside Children with Cancer and Leukaemia, Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain, CC Student Hardship Fund, and the Hope Foundation and Horgan's Buildings Senior Citizens Centre.

The week brought the AHS together as societies showed off their events to each other and competed to raise the most.

The societies that took part were: Aston Humanist Society; Birmingham Atheist Society; Bradford Atheist and Humanist Society; Chichester Atheist, Humanist and Agnostic Society; University Collage Cork Atheist Society; Dundee University Atheist Society; Durham University Humanist and Secular Society; Edinburgh Humanist Society; Leeds Atheist Society; LSESU Atheist and Humanist Society; QMUL Atheism Society; Reading University Atheist, Humanist and Secular Society; Southampton Atheist Society; UAL Atheist; Skeptical Society; and UCL Atheist, Secularist and Humanist Society.

In particular well done to Aston Humanist Society that raised a shocking £607.94 for various charities. A C Grayling presented them with the award on video.

We hope you all enjoyed the week and are looking forward to next year.