Meeting this afternoon at 2pm in Victoria Road. All supporters welcome.
Carol Singing
Farrant Singers carol singing last evening in support of the local group
December 2023
The local group went out last evening and toured several streets carol singing. We were supported as ever by the Farrant Singers who sang the carols for us. This has become a tradition and it is in its twentieth year. We are extremely grateful to the Farrants and some of the residents of the streets we toured came out to enjoy the singing. 
Underneath the lamp post pic: Salisbury Amnesty
December minutes
Minutes for the December group meeting
December 2023
We are pleased to attach the minutes of the Salisbury group’s meeting in December thanks to group member Lesley for compiling them. The minutes contain a report on refugees – a hot topic in the UK at present – a summary of the death penalty report (the full version is on this site) and a brief report on a talk on human rights at South Wilts school. 
Monthly meeting
December 2023
Our monthly meeting is today starting at 2pm in Victoria Road. Supporters and new members welcome.
November minutes and events
November 2023
We are pleased to attach the minutes of our November meeting thanks to group member Lesley for preparing them. We do not produce a newsletter but the minutes are comprehensive and cover a lot of ground. There are details of our forthcoming activities including the carol singing and schools work. If you live in the Salisbury or south Wiltshire area and are thinking of joining, then coming to one of our events and making yourself known is a good idea.
CORRECTION: Carol singing is on 18th December not as stated in the minutes.
Group minutes and reports
The group’s minutes and reports for October 2023
October 2023
We are pleased to attach the minutes of the group’s meeting on 12 October 2023 thanks to group member for compiling them.
Group minutes and reports
Group minutes and reports for September
September 2023
WE are pleased to attach the minutes for our meeting in September 2023 thanks to group member Lesley for compiling them. We have titled this post as ‘minutes and reports’ because the group does not produce a newsletter but individual members submit reports on chosen topics such as refugees, the death penalty and the state of current human rights flavoured bills in parliament.
Group news
Salisbury group’s summer party
August 2023
In place of a meeting in August, we hold a summer party and this is a photo of this year’s. We were lucky with the weather as rain was forecast but it held off until quarter an hour of so after everyone had left!
The Salisbury group is the only Amnesty group in Wiltshire sad to report and if anyone from Wiltshire or north Dorset would like to join us we would be pleased to welcome them. Just keep an eye on the website or on Facebook or X as it now is (Twitter) for details of our next event.
July minutes
Minutes of the July Group meeting
July 2023
We are pleased to attach minutes of the meeting held in July 2023 thanks to group member Lesley for producing them. As well as giving details of our activities past and future, it has items of more general interest for example, progress with government bills which will have an impact on human rights, a report on the refugee situation and a report on the death penalty around the world.
Refugee march
Members of the Salisbury group joined the refugee march in Southampton
June 2023
Some members of the Salisbury Amnesty group went over to join the march in Southampton held in support of refugees. It goes without saying that refugees are getting a terrible press at present with tabloid fury at the boat crossings showing no signs of abating. Politicians are in full cry and new legislation is promised to make asylum even harder. Plans to send them to Rwanda are still in place and there is a section of the Conservative Party which would be happy for the UK to withdraw from the European Court to achieve this. In a previous post we drew attention to some of the inconsistencies in the attitudes towards refugees and asylum seekers. We were sad not to meet colleagues from the Soton group.
Pics: Salisbury Amnesty
