Raised: 101%
Target: £30,000.00
Raised so far: £30,199.00
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UPDATE 18.Nov.09 Read about what we've achieved this year and what we need for next year. See our new page at www.justgiving.com/nofaithschools

UPDATE: 24.Apr.09 We reached our target and exceeded it! Massive thanks to all of you who have donated to help the BHA's schools campaign. This page will now close. If you want to help the BHA's campaigns even further, please do consider becoming a member at www.humanism.org.uk/join or making a donation to our general fund at www.humanism.org.uk/donate If you want to give to our campaigns and education work in particular, you can contribute at www.justgiving.com/thenextstop Thanks Again! Andrew

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Help the BHA in its effort to phase out state funded 'faith' schools by ensuring we can employ our dedicated campaign officer against faith schools for another year.

When we raise £30,000 we will be able to continue employing our dedicated campaigner for twelve months. Our campaigner will make sure that the voice of UK citizens who oppose faith schools is represented in the most powerful way. To do this our campaigner helps to stimulate and organise local campaigns against new faith schools and lobby government and parliament to reform the laws that allow state funded schools to discriminate in their employment and admissions on religious grounds, and to teach unbalanced curricula of religious education.

The British Humanist Association campaigns for inclusive schools with no religious admissions policies, balanced teaching about different beliefs and values, and no 'collective worship'; the BHA is in favour of the phasing out of state funded 'faith' schools and campaigns nationally and locally for this cause.

Please give generously to this work, as it is always difficult to fund but its importance is enormous.

If there had been more RE in schools, I would have realized how sinful it was to use contraceptives and be able to remain a good catholic. Sorry god. Donation by Cherie Blair 07/03/09  

£2.00 + £0.56 Gift Aid

"There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the clergyman". Victor Hugo, written in Guernsey (my home island) approx 1870. Donation by Malcolm Dodd - mal1@onetel.com 07/03/09  

£12.49 + £3.52 Gift Aid

To help protect our young people Donation by Gavin Buckley 06/03/09  

£25.00 + £7.05 Gift Aid

We must stop this segregation of children! It can only cause more sectarian hatred and violence. Donation by Leni Simons 06/03/09  

£5.00

great comments on here; let's get the message across, and open those closed minds... 50 days left: £12.49 per day, equal to £16.02 with gift aid Donation by stevied 06/03/09  

£16.02

Donation by Midori Harris 03/03/09  

£25.00

keep the vulnerable safe from the madness of indoctrination Donation by Ian Pilbeam 03/03/09  

£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid

Sectarian school = stealthy racism (I'm white). Can a child have a faith? How can they excluded because of it? Why does the parents' faith matter? Donation by Richard W 03/03/09  

£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid

A sympathetiic reaction to Cherie Bliar's submission as a child to religious indoctrination by her Granny and her faith schooling Donation by John Forever-Argue 02/03/09  

£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid

For the future of our children. Donation by Kev 02/03/09  

£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid

Donation by Jim M 01/03/09  

£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid

I find it sad that this is even necessary. Let's hope one day soon it won't be. Donation by Tristan 28/02/09  

£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid

That's tomorrow covered. Donation by Andrea 27/02/09  

£13.17 + £3.71 Gift Aid

good stuff Ady- weekly update- 57 days left; target is now £13.17 per day, which = £16.88 incl gift-aid. (or it's £87,37 per day by donations alone!) Donation by stevied 27/02/09  

£16.88

Donation by Liz and Tony 25/02/09  

£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid

Might help if i got my maths right. Donation by Ady 25/02/09  

£102.02 + £28.77 Gift Aid

Only 5k left Donation by Ady 25/02/09  

£361.78 + £102.04 Gift Aid

Education, not indoctrination. www.youtube.com/patcondell Donation by Richard Bembridge 23/02/09  

£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid

great campaign! Donation by Alan Raby 22/02/09  

£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid

A tremendously important campaign. Fantastic work! Donation by Lawrence Hudson 21/02/09  

£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid

Finally sense may prevail! Donation by K2 21/02/09  

£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid

Keep up the good work. We have got to get religion out of the state educational system - our children need a broad education, not indoctrination! Donation by Pamela Galloway 20/02/09  

£30.00 + £8.46 Gift Aid

It's outrageous that schools can still discriminate on the basis of religious faith while receiving taxpayer funding Donation by Paul A 20/02/09  

£30.00 + £8.46 Gift Aid

10/10 for effort. Keep up the good work. Donation by Rob Pickering 20/02/09  

£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid

...including the "gift aid"... Donation by stevied 20/02/09  

£6.20

64 days left... that's about £22 a day, including gift aid, to reach target... shouldn't be a problem, eh?... "Children are not a religion..." Donation by stevied 20/02/09  

£22.00

YES!! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/7898972.stm Thanks Jaqui Smith! Proud to be a Brit today!! Donation by Andrea 19/02/09  

£5.00 + £1.41 Gift Aid

The evil Koran and the evil Bible cannot be banned; what we must ban is the ban on free speech. Donation by Malcolm Dodd - mal1@onetel.com 19/02/09  

£2.00 + £0.56 Gift Aid

Donation by Robert Ede 18/02/09  

£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid

+http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/...savethechildren,educate-the-kids,Ethicaleducation,edu4all,faithgrooming, criticalthinking,schoolre,& pschools Donation by Donald Hardie 17/02/09  

£2.00 + £0.56 Gift Aid
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