Edinburgh World Justice Festival 2010, Our 5th Anniversary

The Edinburgh World Justice Festival is calling for volunteers to take part in the organization and planning of the Festival’s activities in 2010, five years on from Make Poverty History

The Edinburgh World Justice Festival has decided that in light of the forthcoming General Election the Festival will not be held in May, as it has been usual in the last editions. Instead we plan to have a festival over a long weekend in the autumn.

We are inviting interested individuals and all organisations with existing links to the Festival to attend a meeting about this on Thursday February 18th at 7.30 pm in the Friends Meeting House, 7 Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh, EH1 2JL.

At the meeting we want to set up a Planning Group which will take the plan forward to completion, so if you want to be part of this Planning Group, or you know of anyone who may want to volunteer, please do come along.

For more information, please contact us at: info@ewjf.org.uk.

There will be a meeting at 7.30 pm on Thursday 28 January in the Friends Meeting House, Victoria Terrace, to consider both plans for this year and the best ways to carry forward the Festival in future years. It’s open to all individuals and organisations interested in supporting the festival, so we hope you can come or, if not, let us know of your interest.

You’ll know that the Festival was established to carry forward the impetus from the massive Make Poverty History march in Edinburgh in 2005; and that it has been successful in providing an annual programme of events which has raised the profile of numerous issues concerning development and world justice. We hope that this can be continued but many of the individuals involved now cannot devote so much time to the festival.

We are proposing that this year the festival be shorter and more focused - a weekend or a long weekend; and more focused in terms of theme, with one event organized by EWJF and/or coalition of partner organisations; plus slots for other events as well on Friday Saturday Sunday and possible Monday.

The meeting is the time to give your views on the form of the Festival this year and in the future; indeed whether it should go forward at all.

We hope to see you or hear from you

The EWJF is supported by a wide community of MSPs, local Councillors, Non-Governmental Organisations, friends and all those who want to be the change that they want to see in the world.

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