There are over 60 Local Fabian Societies across the UK, bringing Fabian debates to communities around the country.
Use the map below to find your nearest local Fabian Society and get in touch with the organiser to find out more about their activities.
Check back here for the most up to date Local Fabian Society listings
Bexley |
| Regular meetings- for information contact Alan Scutt on 0208 304 0413 or alan.scutt@phonecoop.coop |
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Birmingham |
| Saturday 22 June, 2-5pm: Garden Party in Selly Oak.
Tuesday 9 July at 7pm: AGM at Priory Rooms in Central Birmingham. Tuesday 17 September at 7pm: Presentation on current state of Mondragon worker cooperatives at BMI (joint event with Co-op Party) For further information email birminghamfabiansociety@gmail.com |
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Bournemouth & District |
| Thursday 20th June, 7.30 p.m. Talk by Fiona Millar, Education writer for the Guardian on “Life after Gove. What Labour should do about it.” Venue: Guildhall, The Broadway, Winchester, SO23 9LJ
Contact Ian Taylor on 01202 396634 for details of regular meetings or email taylorbournemouth@gmail.com |
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Brighton & Hove |
| Secretary’s Report 2012-13AGM Report 2012-13 ~ Friday 19 July 8:00pm (doors 7:45pm): “How can we stop Trident and ban nuclear weapons globally?” Speaker: Dr. Rebecca Johnson, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. Venue: Calvary Evangelical Church, 72 Viaduct Road, Brighton. Sunday 21 July, 2:00pm-5:00pm “BH Fabian Society Summer Garden Party”. Tickets: £7.50 members/guests, please book by 13/07. Payment: cheque payable to BH Fabian Society, post to Hosts: Martin & Mary Lewis. Venue: 84 Peacock Lane, Brighton BN1 6WA. Travel: 5, 5A bus, free on street parking. |
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Bristol |
| Wednesday 19th June 2013, 7:30pm: “Palestine: Consulting the Past, Looking to the Future” with guest speaker: Naomi Woodspring, from the Bristol Branch of the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign. Horfield Quaker Meeting House, 300 Gloucester Road, Horfield, Bristol, BS7 8PD.Please indicate if you are attending by emailing grosenberg@churchside.me.uk or phone 0117 9573330 Arthur Massey (Acting Secretary) and Ges Rosenberg (Acting Chair)
Contact arthur.massey@btinternet.com or grosenberg@churchside.me.uk or phone 0117 9693608 |
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Cambridge |
| Details of meetings from Feng Ding on cambridgefabians@gmail.com Website: www.cambridgefabians.org.uk Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CambridgeFabianSociety |
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Camden |
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Cardiff and the Vale |
| Details of all meetings from Jonathan Wynne Evans on 02920 594 065 or wynneevans@phonecoop.coop |
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Central London |
| No meeting in June, as we are moving to new premises. Details from Giles Wright on 0207 227 4904, giles.wright@fabians.org.uk |
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Chiswick & West London |
| Thursday, 27 June, 8.00 p.m. Cllr Ruth Cadbury on ‘The Local Impact of the Benefit Changes.’ Venue: Committee Room of Chiswick Town Hall, Heathfield Terrace, London W4 4JE.
Details from Monty Bogard on 0208 994 1780, email mb014f1362@blueyonder.co.uk |
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Colchester |
| Meetings at the Friends Meeting House, Colchester, usually at 7.15pm. Details from John Wood on 01206 212100 or woodj@madasafish.com |
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Cumbria and North Lancashire |
| Venue: Castle Green Hotel Kendal. For information please contact Dr Robert Judson, dr.robertjudson@btinternet.com |
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Dartford & Gravesham |
| Meetings at Dartford Working Mens Club, Essex Road, Dartford Details from Deborah Stoate on 0207 227 4904 email debstoate@hotmail.com |
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Derby |
| Details for meetings from Alan Jones on 01283 217140 or alan.mandh@btinternet.com |
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Doncaster & District |
| For details and information contact Kevin Rodgers on 07962 019168 or k.t.rodgers@gmail.com |
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East Lothian |
Wednesday, 12 June 2013, 7 pm. A showing of the award winning documentary film ‘5 Broken Cameras’. This very well regarded film is a highly personal and moving account of life and non violent resistance in Bil’in, a West Bank village surrounded by Israeli settlements. Trinity Centre, Church Street, Haddington.Details of meetings from Noel Foy on 01620 824386 or noelfoy@lewisk3.plus.com
ExeterMonday 17th June, 7pm. Speaker: Devon County Councillor Andy Hannan, retired Professor of Education, Plymouth University on ‘What could Labour do about Education?’ A short business meeting will follow the speaker and discussion at 8.30pm. Venue: The Cosy Club, Southernhay, Exeter City Centre. Food and drink available to anyone who wants to stay until late. Anyone interested in political ideas is very welcome. Please let me know if you are coming or have any queries on ianmartinis@yahoo.com or text or ring me on 07980301058 |
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Finchley |
| Thursday 27 June, 8 pm: Alon Or-back (National Policy Forum representative on the Work and Business Policy Commission) “Responsible Capitalism – What About The Workers?” Venue: The Blue Beetle, adjacent to St Mary-at-Finchley Church, Hendon Lane N3 1TS Enquiries to Mike Walsh on 07980 602122, mike.walsh44@ntlworld.com |
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Glasgow |
| Regular local meetings. Contact Martin Hutchinson on mail@liathach.net |
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Gloucester |
| Regular meetings at TGWU, 1 Pullman Court, Great Western Rd, Gloucester. Details from Roy Ansley on 01452 713094 email roybrendachd@yahoo.co.uk |
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Greenwich |
| Contact Chris Kirby on ccakirby@hotmail.co.uk |
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Grimsby |
| Details from Maureen Freeman on m.freeman871@btinternet.com |
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Harrow and District |
| Details of meetings from Marilyn Devine on 0208 424 9034 |
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Hastings & Rye |
| Meetings held on last Friday of each month. Please contact Nigel Sinden at fabian@sindenql.com |
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Havering |
| For details of all meetings from David Marshall email david.c.marshall.t21@btinternet.com tel 01708 441189. For latest information see the website: http://haveringfabians.org.uk |
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Hornsey and Wood Green |
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Hull |
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Islington |
| contact John Clarke at islingtonfabians@hotmail.co.uk. |
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Leeds |
| For information on Leeds Fabians contact John Bracken at leedsfabians@gmail.com |
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Leicester |
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Manchester |
| Manchester Fabians re-forming. Please contact Rosie Clayton for more information, mcrfabs@gmail.com or go to Facebook www.facebook.com/ManchesterFabians Twitter @MCR_Fab |
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Merseyside |
| For further information please contact Hetty Wood at hettyjay@gmail.com |
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Middlesbrough |
| Contact Andrew Maloney on 07757 952784 or email andrewmaloney@hotmail.co.uk for details |
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Milton Keynes |
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Newham |
| Regular meetings. Contact Tahmina Rahman – Tahmina_rahman_1@hotmail.com |
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Northumbria |
| For details and booking contact Pat Hobson at pat.hobson@hotmail.com |
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Northampton |
| Contact Dave Brede on davidbrede@yahoo.com |
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North Staffordshire |
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Norwich |
| Contact Andreas Paterson – andreas@headswitch.co.uk |
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Nottinghamshire |
| For information on meetings please contact Lee Garland secretary@nottsfabians.org.uk www.nottsfabians.org.uk twitter @NottsFabians ———————————————————————– OxfordNew society forming. Contact Michael Weatherburn, michael.weatherburn@gmail.com |
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Peterborough |
| Details from Brian Keegan on 01733 265769, email brian@briankeegan.demon.co.uk |
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Portsmouth |
| Contact Daniel Greenaway : email daniel.idris.greenaway@gmail.com |
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Reading & District |
| For details please contact Tony Skuse: Telephone: 01189785829/07793529280 e-mail: tonyskuse2000@yahoo.co.uk |
Sheffield |
| Details and information from Robert Murray on 0114 255 8341 or email robertljmurray@hotmail.com |
South East London |
| Venue: 105 Court Lane, Dulwich SE21For details of meetings, contact Duncan Bowie on 020 8693 2709 or email duncanbowie@yahoo.co.uk |
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South West London |
| Information from Tony Eades at tonyeades@hotmail.co.uk |
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Southampton |
| Tuesday 11th June, 7.30 pm: Rowenna Davis on “ Making Southampton a Living Wage City”. Venue: St Andrews URC Church, The Avenue, Southampton, SO17 1XQDetails from Eliot Horn, eliot.horn@btinternet.com |
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South Tyneside |
| information about this Society please contact Paul Freeman on 0191 5367 633 or at freemanpsmb@blueyonder.co.uk |
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Suffolk |
| Sunday 28th July : Summer Garden Party at the home of Gitti Dunham in Bury St Edmunds. Further information to follow.
Details of meetings from John Cook on 01473 255131, email contact@ipswich-labour.org.uk |
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Surrey |
| Regular meetings at Guildford Cathedral Education Centre. Details from Robert Park, robert@park.titandsl.co.uk |
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Tonbridge & Tunbridge Wells |
Contact John Champneys on 01892 523429
Tower HamletsTuesday 25 June, 7 pm. “Original Labour: How the Bow Matchwomen made history”. Guest speaker Louise Raw, Labour historian and author of ‘Striking a Light: The Bryant and May Matchwomen and their Place in History’. Venue: Bow Quarter (the former Bryant and May Match Factory), 60 Fairfield Road, Bow, London E3 2UB Contact: Kevin Morton, Vice Chair of Tower Hamlets Fabians – 07958 314846 E-mail – towerhamletsfabiansociety@googlemail.com Twitter – @THFabians |
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Tynemouth |
| Monthly supper meetings, details from Brian Flood on 0191 258 3949 |
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Warwickshire |
| Meetings at the Friends’ Meeting House, 28 Regent Place,Rugby,CV21 2PN. Details from Ben Ferrett on ben_ferrett@hotmail.com http://warwickshirefabians.blogspot.com |
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West Durham |
| Meets normally on the last Saturday of alternate months at the Joiners Arms, Hunwick between 12.15 and 2.00pm – light lunch £3.00 Contact the Secretary Cllr Professor Alan Townsend, 62A Low Willington, Crook, Durham DL15 OBG 01388 746479 Alan.Townsend@dur.ac.uk |
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Wimbledon |
| Contact Andy Ray on 07944 545161 or andyray@blueyonder.co.uk |
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York |
| Regular meetings on third or fourth Fridays at 7.45 at Jacob’s Well, Off Miklegate, York. Details from Steve Burton on steve.burton688@mod.uk |
