Awareness conferences 1974

So Waterloo Place was one place to go in Manchester. This was part of one of the posters that I took back to Salford to put up around the SU.

Sebastian Charles got me a place at the Swanage British Council of Churches conference below and then mentored me through the process of organising the TGD group in Salford and the TGD conference. Some of those who came were Christine Holton, Nigel Farrow of Oxford and possibly Oxfam, Colin Drew from Owens Park Mcr, Greg Monks, Peter Philipson from Hamilton Road, Mcr, Dick Ellison from Murray Street, Salford, Alan Jefferson, Ian Condliffe who had done VSO curing Bilhartsia in Ethiopia, Anne Barton (3W1) made lovely vegetarian food for us, Graham Holdaway, Nino, Michael Younan, Sheila Johnson, Peter David, Mick Bateson, Chris Caine,Alex Main, Andrew Kay, David Crosher from Glasgow, Gillian Braidwood, Ahmad Porkar, Joyce McQueeney from CA, Steve Boulter from SEI (CAT), Peter Oakley on conscientization, Peru and Brazil, and Tony Grimshaw.

Each evening we played films on a 16mm projector (Christian Aid films and Concorde Films)( till 3.00am on the Wednesday evening)
     Rich Man/Poor Man
Black Man's Burden 1 and 2
A Developing Man
Cartoons: Accelerator and Tilt
Legacy of an Empire
 Homo Homini
Agrindas Way
One Man's Hunger
Free to Grow
Path for a Nation
Vicious Spiral


it cost £7.50 each for the whole weekend

Rev. Sebastian Charles found money to pay for Swanage

Other parts of the network were
Peter Oakley of Oxfam, Intermediate Technology Development Group,
The Society for Environmental Improvement Limited (SEI), I was introduced to this group by Steve Boulter, they were building the National Centre for Alternative Technology on 20 acres of disused slate quarry in Machynlleth, Wales. It is still going strong today!
The Society for Anglo-Chinese Understanding, Sheffield, 3WI Sheffield