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Fringe events:  CSM Labour Party Conference 2009 

DATE/TIME
TOPICS & VENUES
SPEAKER DETAILS
Sunday 27 Sept. 2009  
11am Party Conference Service

at Gloucester Place Baptist Church, BN1 4AA
Supported by CSM, CAFOD and The Tablet
  • Chair: Andy Flannagan, Director, Christian Socialist Movement
  • Senior Cabinet minister
  • Guest Speaker:  Dr. Elaine Storkey, President, Tearfund
  • Speaker:  Dave Steell, Pastor, Gloucester Place Baptist  Church                         


12:45 PM
Innovative Financing and Climate Change

at the Gloucester Place Baptist Church, BN1 4AA
CSM in partnership with Stampout Poverty
  • Chair:  Andy Flannagan, Director, Christian Socialist Movement
  • Speaker:  Sarah McCarthy-Fry, MP, Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury 
  • Speaker:  Phil Bloomer, Campaigns and Policy Director, Oxfam 
  • Speaker:  David Hillman, Coordinator, Stampoutpoverty

                                                                



6:30 PM
Prayer Gathering

at the Gloucester Place Baptist Church, BN1 4AA


Led by Andy Flannagan, Director, Christian Socialist Movement


     
Monday 28 Sept. 2009  
8:00 AM
Wake up to Climate Change! Prayer Breakfast

at St. Pauls' Church, West Street
CSM in partnership with CAFOD and Tearfund

A roundtable discussion led by:
  • Rt. Hon. David Lammy, MP, and
  • Mrs. Helen Goodman, MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State                                                                                      


12:30 PM
Haven or Hell: would an end to tax havens bring an end to poverty?'

at St. Pauls' Church, West Street
CSM in partnership with Christian Aid

  • Chair: Andy Flannagan, Director, CSM
  • Speaker:  Rt. Hon. Stephen Timms, MP
  • Speaker:  Rt. Hon. John McFall, MP
  • Speaker:  Alex Cobham, Head of Policy, Christian Aid



5:30 PM Hope in the Crunch: Young People and the Future of the Economy

at St. Pauls' Church, West Street
CSM in partnership with Premier Radio

  • Speaker:  Sharon Hodgson, MP
  • Speaker:  Dawn Butler, MP
  • Speaker:  Martin Saunders, Editor, Youthwork Magazine
  • Speaker:  Lindsay Martin, Policy Advisor, YMCA England
  • along with contributions from local young people!                                             



7:30 PM Can we afford to eliminate world poverty?

at St. Paul's Church, West Street 
CSM / Amnesty / CAFOD / Christian Aid / Saferworld / Save the Children / Tearfund / World Vision / WWF/Oxfam/Malaria Consortium and others

  • Chaired by Michael White, Guardian (invited)
  • Speaker:  Rt Hon Douglas Alexander MP, Secretary of State for International Development
  • Speaker:  Jasmine Whitbread, CEO, Save the Children UK
  • Speaker:  Glenys Kinnock, Minister for Europe (invited)



     
Tuesday 29 Sept. 2009  
8:00 AM
Prayer Breakfast on the Economy

at St. Pauls' Church, West Street
CSM in partnership with The Free Church Leaders

  • Led by:  Andy Flannagan, Director, Christian Socialist Movement
  • Speaker:  Rt. Hon. Stephen Timms, MP
  • Speaker:  Dr Richard Vautrey, Vice-President, Methodist Conference
Churches represented will include:  the United Reformed Church; the Baptist Union of Great Britain; and the Methodist Church

All are welcome!                  



5:45 PM Faith Reception

at St. Pauls' Church, West Street 
Sponsored by the 3 Faiths Forum

  • Chair:  Rt. Hon. Alun Michael, MP
  • Speaker:  Rt. Hon. Stephen Timms, MP
  • Speaker:  Stephen Shashoua, Director, 3 Faiths Forum
  • Speaker:  Andy Flannagan, Director, Christian Socialist Movement                                           



7:30 PM Morals and Banking - is the feeling mutual?

at St. Pauls' Church, West Street
CSM in partnership with the Co-operative Party

  • Chair:  Michael Stephenson, General Secretary, The Co-operative Party
  • Speaker:  Alun Michael, MP
  • Speaker:  Rachael Reeves, Labour Parliamentary candidate for Leeds West and former economist at the Bank of England                                                                                                       
  • Speaker:  Sara McCarthy-Fry, MP, Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury



10:00 PM  
Andy Flannagan in Concert!

at The Hope Pub, Queen St., Brighton BN1 3WA

Andy Flannagan in Concert!


     
Wednesday  30 Sept. 2009
 
12:30 PM
Morality and the Markets

at St. Pauls' Church, West Street
CSM in partnership with CAFOD and The Tablet

  • Chair:  Andy Flannagan, Director, Christian Socialist Movement
  • Speaker:  Jon Cruddas, MP
  • Speaker:  Rt. Hon. Stephen Timms MP
  • Speaker:  Joanne Green, Head of Policy


5:45 PM Do we have enough
faith in development?


at St. Pauls' Church, West Street
CSM in partnership with World Vision and Tearfund

  • Chair:  Andy Flannagan, Christian Socialist Movement
  • Speaker:  Rt. Hon. Stephen Timms, MP
  • Speaker:  Madeleine Bunting, The Guardian, (invited)
  • Speaker: Justin Byworth, Chief Executive Officer, World Vision
  • Speaker:  Paul Cook, Advocady and Media Director, Tearfund