Amnesty International UK Midlands Conference

GLOBAL RIGHTS - LOCAL ACTION

We are pleased to announce Amnesty's first conference for the entire Midlands Region, hosted at Aston University in Birmingham. The day will be focused around bringing together activists from across the area to explore deepening local activism and campaigning in the region.

We will be piloting a new regional team model in the Midlands, and much of the conference will be imputing into what this will look like. We will also have a range of exciting speakers and workshops, including from Kate Allen - Director of Amnesty UK, Andy Hackman - Head of Community Organising at Amnesty UK, Jeremy Thompson - Director of RESTORE and Imtiaz Choomara - Activist.

Everyone is welcome, including non-Amnesty members.

TIME

10am for prompt 11am start - 5pm

TICKETS

Please note – there will be a £5 fee on the door to cover the costs of catering and the running of the conference. If you have any concerns about being able to pay this, please contact the conference organiser at Gethin.Davies@amnesty.org.uk

AGENDA

10.00 Arrival, Registration, Workshop Choices and Exhibition

11.00 Welcome and Aim of the Day - Gethin Davies

11.10 Imtiaz Choomara - Derby/ Nottingham activist

11.20 Impact of the AI Movement - Andy Hackman, Head of Community Organising, AIUK

11.50 Jeremy Thompson – Manager, RESTORE Birmingham

12.00 Break and Refreshments

12.15 Workshop A - See list below

13.15 Ali Aarrass action & Lunch

14.15 Kate Allen - Director, AIUK

Including reactions to the questions in advance from AIUK Members and those from the morning session on paper

14.45 Break

15.00 Workshop B or Group discussions

There will be a choice of some repeat workshops and a number of discussion groups which will cover Day Review, BIM (Building the Impact of the Movement) ideas and Team- Building Ideas, to feed back to the Plenary

16.00 Plenary

16.30 European Youth Music Refugee Choir

16.50 End of conference

NOTES

Refreshments will be available all day

Rohingya Child Refugee Exhibition; When I Grow Up

WORKSHOPS

• Work with and for Refugees and Asylum-Seekers

• What makes Effective Activism (including groups)

• Football Welcomes Refugees

• Individuals at Risk Campaign

• Human Rights and Trade/Commerce

• Work of the AIUK Country Coordinators (CHINA and EUROPE)

DISCLAIMER

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