Campaign against faith schools

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.