Is a better form of politics possible?What would it look like?We have extended the deadline to apply for full sponsorship to attend a weekend conference to explore these themes.See the full details in this post.
By Matty Maslen Earlier this month, I travelled down to London to take part in ‘A nuclear-free future: A day in Parliament with Youth and Student CND’.With other young people from across England and Wales, I took part in workshops with MPs and Peers of the House of Lords. We were joined for short question […]
SPARK and the Justice and Peace Commission are members of Leeds Citizens and at their Accountability Assembly this week we heard from the potential Mayoral candidates for West Yorkshire. This is the current Mayor Tracey Brabin. I went with Anthony, one of our SPARK supporters, John Battle Chair of the Justice and Peace Commission also […]
SPARK is offering up to 4 people full sponsorship (£225 cost of conference plus public transport travel costs reimbursed) to attend this conference. It is the Annual Conference of the National Justice & Peace Network and takes place every year at the Christian Conference centre at Swanwick in Derbyshire. Over 200 people from around the […]
The Romero Lecture in March was great – Raymond Perrier was a very engaging speaker and he had some interesting insights.The recording that we made of the lecture has now been linked to Raymond’s presentation and you can now see it on YouTube. There was a lot in it so it’s worth another look and listen […]
Wars and conflicts across the world, mass migrations, racism in all its forms… the list of social justice and peace issues that need to be addressed just seems to be growing and growing. How can we keep motivated to go on doing the work of Justice & Peace in these circumstances?SPARK, in partnership with Leeds […]