Forthcoming Talk on Active Citizenship – September 9th, Shotwick.

Aug 15, 2011 | News



Friday 9th September 7.30pm
Professor Lord David Alton
will talk in Church on
“Active Citizenship – Our Duty to Play our Part”


David qualified as a teacher in 1972, working in socially disadvantaged neighbourhoods, teaching immigrant children and later children with special needs. While still a student aged 21, he was elected to Liverpool City Council and became its Housing Chairman and Deputy Leader.
Elected in 1979 to the House of Commons for a Liverpool constituency as a Liberal, becoming the youngest member and achieving a record political swing.
He was his Party’s spokesman on Home Affairs, Northern Ireland, Overseas Development and the Environment, and served as Chief Whip, Chairman of the Party’s Policy Committee and President of the National League of Young Liberals.
In 1997 he stood down from the House of Commons, and from party politics, and was nominated by the Prime Minister, Sir John Major, to the House of Lords, where he sits as an Independent Life Peer, speaking regularly on human rights and religious liberty issues. In 1997 he was appointed as Professor of Citizenship at Liverpool John Moores University and established the hugely successful Roscoe Foundation for Citizenship.
Admission by ticket at a cost of £5 each, which includes refreshments.
Available from John Carsley in Church or by post:-
John Carsley, 20 Rockfarm Close, Little Neston, Neston, CH64 4DX
Please enclose a SAE and make your cheque payable to St. Michael’s Church

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