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CSM will have a high profile at this year's Labour Party Conference - which will be held in Manchester from 24-28 September.
We are organising the start of conference service, regular prayer breakfasts and four fringe meetings.
Here is a full list: do join us at any or all of them!
Conference Service
10.15am, Sunday 24 September
St Ann's Church, St Ann's Square, M2 7LF.
Preacher: Reverend Dr Kate Coleman
President of the Baptist Union of Great Britain
Leader: Reverend Canon Roger Hill
Fringe Meetings
Can the Tories do social justice?
6.30pm to 7.30pm, Monday 25 September
Manchester Art Gallery (pictured), Mosley St, M2 3JL.
Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith MP (Centre for Social Justice) and Bob Holman (retired academic and neighbourhood worker).
Chair: Madeleine Bunting.
Sponsored by The Tablet.
Is slavery history?
200 years on from the abolition of the slave trade, what are governments, business and civil society doing about forced labour?
8.00pm to 9pm, Monday 25 September
Manchester Art Gallery (see above).
David Lammy MP (Minister for Culture), Sarah Williams (Anti-Slavery International) and Hilary Parsons (Nestle UK).
Chair: Bev Thomas.
Sponsored by Nestle UK.
A new deal on asylum?
7.45am to 9.00am, Tuesday 26 September
Friends Meeting House, 6 Mount Street, M2 5NS.
Joint breakfast meeting with visiting free church leaders.
Liam Byrne (Minister for Immigration) and Niall Cooper (Church Action on Poverty).
Chair: Bev Thomas.
Does British business help the world's poor?
6.30pm to 7.30pm, Tuesday 26 September Friends Meeting House (see above).
Joint meeting with Christian Aid and CAFOD.
Rt Hon Alistair Darling MP (Secretary of State, DTI), Edward Bickham (External Affairs Vice-President, Anglo-American plc) and Anne Lindsay (Private Sector Analyst, CAFOD).
Chair: Stephen Beer.
Prayer Breakfasts
Monday 25 September and Thursday 28 September
8.15am to 8.45am (breakfast from 7.45am) at the Friends Meeting House (see above).
Led by CSM MPs, including Helen Goodman on Thursday.
7.45am, Wednesday 27 September
Joint meeting with Greater Manchester Prayer Breakfast at Manchester Town Hall, Albert Square, Manchester, M2 5DB.
Guest speaker: Stephen Timms MP (Chief Secretary to the Treasury).
Admission by ticket only. To reserve your ticket email your name to info@thecsm.org.uk
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