Month: March 2025

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Event Report: Effective Altruism

February 18th 2025

In this event report, our newsletter editor Frances Lloyd summarises the talk by Dr Simon Jenkins looking at the best ways to make a positive impact.

Simon is Associate Professor for Values, Law and Ethics at Warwick University. He teaches ethics and law to medical students and other medical professionals. Effective Altruism (EA) is a social movement, a set of ideas on how to best improve the world and make it a better place. It combines the head and the heart.

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Next meeting: A history of slavery and in modern times

A talk by Bernard North

Bernard is a retired civil engineer who lived and worked in Bristol for some years. His children attended a school named after Edward Colston and Bernard went to concerts at the Colston Hall. It wasn’t until later years that Bernard, like many other people, became aware of where Colston’s and much of Bristol’s wealth came from.

Tuesday 15th April 2025
7.30 p.m.

At the Ludlow Quaker Meeting House
St. Mary’s Lane, Ludlow, SY8 1DZ

All are welcome

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