Meetings
The Traditional Britain Group holds regular local and national meetings. For past and upcoming meetings please see below. Alternatively to organise your own local meetings please become a Traditional Britain member and contact us at info@traditionalbritain.org.
Annual General Meeting 2012
The Traditional Britain Group will be holding its Annual General Meeting on the 17th March 2012 in central London, St James.
This is a chance for members to nominate and stand for committee positions, hear official reports about the progress of the group over 2011 and discuss ideas for 2012.
This will be followed by a talk by a speaker (TBA) and a casual evening social. Only paid up members can attend the Annual General Meeting, however all are welcome for the normal seasonal meeting from 2:30pm.
Join the Traditional Britain Group here for only £10 (+£1 when paying online).
The venue location will be sent to confirmed attendees. It is easily accesible via the Underground or bus services. You can RSVP to this event via Facebook (click 'JOIN') or alternatively email us at info@traditionalbritain.org.
Please find more details below.
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Schedule:
Annual General Meeting: 12:30-2:30pm
- Election of committee officials
- Official reports
- Accounts
Break: 2:30pm-3:00pm
Speaker: 3:00-4:00pm
- To be announced
Discussion, Q+A: 4:00-5:00pm
Informal Evening Social: 5:00pm onwards
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Nomination process and committee selection:
1. The nominations deadline is February 17th 2012.
2. Those wishing to stand for their chosen position must be nominated and seconded by paid up members and be a paid up member themself. Please send your nominations, with the subject heading 'Nomination' to info@traditionalbritain.org (or post) clearly stating who you are nominating and for what position. The nominated member must also send an email indicating that he is standing for a particular committee position.
3. Positions avaliable are: Chairman, Secretary, Treasurer and three ordinary committee members.
4. If unconested the nominee will be elected to their position by default.
5. From the nominations deadline until the AGM, members will be informed of the candidates, receive a statement from each candidate, and be able to vote by post (on special request) or email ballot, sending their choice to a specified scrutineer (to be announced).
6. Members will have until the AGM to vote.
7. The results will be announced at the AGM.
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Taken from the Traditional Britain Group Constitution
(4) All the affairs of the Group shall be managed by the Committee consisting of the following officers: Chairman, Secretary, Treasurer, and up to three Ordinary Members. In addition, the Committee may appoint a Deputy Chairman and a Webmaster, President, and any number of Vice-Presidents, all of whom will have the right to sit on the Committee and vote. Meetings of the Committee will require a quorum of three. A minimum of three full weeks notice will be required to all parties for a Committee meeting.
(6) The Executive Committee will be elected annually, by postal and/or email ballots, to be returned to and monitored by a scrutineer being not one of the officers or ordinary members of the Committee. Nominations, duly seconded, with acceptance by the person nominated, must be returned at least one full month before the following AGM, where results will be announced. Members may nominate and second as many persons as they wish. Simple majorities will confirm election. Where a position is not contested the only nomination will be elected by default without the need for a ballot.
(7) Only those whose membership subscriptions are fully paid up will be entitled to vote or attend an AGM.
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Traditional Britain Group Autumn Social
Traditional Britain Group supporters met in central London on November 5th, Guy Fawkes Day, to discuss strategy and aims for furthering our movement in 2012.
Long-term objectives were discussed and have been defined in our blog entry Building an intellectual and political traditional conservative alternative.
It was also agreed that local chapters were essential for further progress. Several groups have now been established and can be seen on our Traditional Britain Local Chapters page
The new website, blog and e-newsletter were also previewed - you can sign up to our Traditional Britain E-newsletter using the form at the top left of the page.
Our next central meeting will be held late winter time. Keep an eye out here and on our Facebook Page
Traditional Britain Dinner 2011 - Gerard Batten MEP
Gerard Batten, UKIP MEP, spoke to the Traditional Britain Group at their annual Traditional Britain Dinner at Charing Cross Hotel, London. Gregory Lauder-Frost, Vice-President of the Traditional Britain Group presided.
Gerard Batten gave an informative talk addressing the numerous attacks on the British Constitution, laws and ancient institutions, especially from the European Union and Westminster itself. The evening was enjoyed by all and as always the majority of the guests were under 30, an encouraging direction for the traditionalist movement.
Stuart Millson - "Britain: nation or shopping mall?"
Stuart Millson spoke in central London to The Traditional Britain Group in March 2011.
'Britain: nation or shopping mall?'
Stuart Millson proposes that traditional conservatives can make a difference through local activism.
Bland, out-of-touch career politicians; a globalised market eradicating nations, local traditions and identity; a free-market and private sector imbued with the "values" of political-correctness. Are we facing the abyss, or can we rescue Britain? Stuart Millson discusses the state of the nation.
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Read or watch Stuart Millson's talk, Britain: nation or shopping mall? on The Traditional Britain Blog.
Christopher Gillibrand - "Fighting the enemies of tradition in Church and State, at home and in Europe”
Christopher Gillibrand - commentator, think-tank director and Special Representative to the European Union Institutions for the Dignitatis Humanae Institute - spoke to the Traditional Britain Group in October, 2010 - "Fighting the enemies of tradition in Church and State, at home and in Europe”
The son of a trade union leader, former Conservative Party treasurer and local council candidate in Oxford, who has been active for many years on the right of the Conservative Party will speak from firsthand experience about the day-by-day attacks Traditional British institutions and freedoms by the European institutions and also discuss the future of European societies who are under similar threats.
A Roman Catholic traditionalist, convert from Anglicanism, he is presently working on an article about the Second Vatican Council and can speak from first-hand experience of the forces destroying the Catholic Church in Europe. He believes the only meaningful ecumenism is between traditionalists in the Orthodox, Catholic and Anglican churches to fight their common enemies.
To read Christopher's talk please see his article, //"Fighting the enemies of tradition in Church and State, at home and in Europe”//
Adrian Davies speaking on Bonar Law, the "Unknown Prime Minister"
Adrian is a barrister who was formerly the chairman of the British Freedom Party (now defunct) and has worked for Slaughter and May, the prestigious London law firm. Adrian was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he took a first class honours degree in modern languages in 1985 and at the University of London where he took a LLM degree. He is the son of the traditionalist Catholic writer, Michael Davies.
Davies was previously an executive council member of the Conservative Monday Club, a former executive committee member of Tory Action and secretary of the London Swinton Circle. He is also a co-founder of the Bloomsbury Forum.
Francis Fulford - St George's Day Dinner 2010
Gregory Lauder-Frost, Vice-President of the TBG presided, and the Guest-of-Honour was Francis Fulford of Great Fulford, the author of "Bearing Up - The Long View" and star of several TV documentaries, who delivered an excellent and very entertaining speech: an analysis of what the future holds for us.
He felt that given that two thirds of those present were under 30 there was clear hope for the future. Sam Swerling made the vote of thanks speech, and Louis Welcomme also spoke. A notice of the event appears on page 26 of "The Daily Telegraph", 24th April 2010.
Please see the photos of the meeting on our Facebook page.
Christmas 2009 - Gregory Lauder-Frost (left) and Sam Swerling - Immigration and the Decline of Britain
The Traditional Britain Group 2009 Christmas meeting was held in the shadow of Westminster itself.
It consisted of a talk by the former Political Secretary of the Monday Club, Gregory Lauder-Frost - 'Britain's staunchest monarchist' - on 'Immigration and Repatriation' and a talk by Sam Swerling - former Conservative Councillor, former Monday Club Chairman and a Senior Law Lecturer at City University - on the 'Decline of Britain.'
Abba Seraphim of the British Orthodox Church on Islam
This meeting involved a talk by His Eminence, Abba Seraphim, the Metropolitan of Glastonbury - of the British Orthodox Church - about Islam.
The British Orthodox Church is a small Orthodox jurisdiction, canonically part of the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria. Our mission is to the people of the British Isles, and though we are completely Orthodox in our faith and practice we remain British in our ethos and in our appreciation of the Orthodox heritage of these islands.
Traditional Britain Dinner 2006 - Simon Heffer speaks
The 2006 Traditional Britain Dinner was held at Simpsons-in-the-Strand, central London on 8th February, and noticed the next day in The Daily Telegraph's 'Court & Social' page.
Author and biographer of Enoch Powell, and (then) Associate Editor of the Daily Telegraph, Simon Heffer, (left) was our guest-of-honour. He spoke on 'the state of the nation' and was warmly received by a packed event.
