Non-Prophet Week

Non-Prophet Week is the charity week for the irreligious and coordinated by The AHS. During the week AHS societies and similar organisations in the UK and Republic of Ireland are encouraged to raise and give money for charity. Each society or group chooses the charity for which they wish to raise money.

In order to participate in Non-Prophet Week an individual must be an AHS member, a local Humanist group. Secular group, or a Skeptics in the Pub group. The money raised must go to a charity which does not promote atheist, Humanist or secularist values in the UK or Republic of Ireland.

The first Non-Prophet Week

The first Non-Prophet Week ran in 2011 during the week 7–13 February. £2,500 was raised for a huge variety of charities. Each day the activities were written up and societies tweeted about the event using the hash tag #nonprophetweek.

15 member societies, plus BHA Choir, BHA staff took part in the week! £2, 221.80 has been raised, (including 50Euros converted to £41.90), 5 pints of blood donated, four bags of stuff were donated and 27.5 man hours spent planting trees.

Aston Humanist Society raised the most money and was recognized by A. C. Grayling, via video link.

The following charities benefited from the week: Book Aid Internationa;, Amnesty International, East African Playgrounds, Water Aid, Medecins Sans Frontiere, Volunteers for Educational Support and Learning, One World Action, Childreach International, NSPCC, Sense about Science, Tayside Children with Cancer and Leukaemia, Bernardos, Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain, Cork Collage Student Hardship Fund, the Hope Foundation and Horgan's Buildings Senior Citizens Centre.

The societies that took part are: Aston Humanist Society, Birmingham Atheist Society, Bradford Atheist and Huamanist Society, Chichester Atheist, Humanist and Agnostic Society, University Collage Cork Atheist Society, Dundee University Atheist Society, Durham University Humanist and Secular Society, Edinburgh Humanist Society, Leeds Atheist Society, LSESU Atheist and Humanist Society, QMUL Atheism Society, Reading University Atheist, Humanist and Secular Society, Southampton Atheist Society, UAL Atheist, Skeptical Society, and UCL Atheist, Secularist and Humanist Society.

External Support

Although the week was arranged by The National Federation of Atheist, Humanist and Secular Student Societies (The AHS), it had support from the British Humanist Association and National Secular Society. All three organisations advertised in their weekly newsletters. Most of the fundraising came from AHS societies and the BHA Choir.

Media Coverage

The first Non-Prophet Week appeared in Secular New Daily, and Humanist Life, (twice).

Blogs

The week was blogged by various groups. Such as the University of Birmingham ATHEIST, SECULAR AND HUMANIST SOCIETY.

The second Non-Prophet Week will run from 7 - 13 November 2011.

References

External links

• The official webpage [1]
• Southampon Atheist Society event [2]