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Contents
Introduction CND in 2005 1 2

Regions, Nations, Specialist Sections and Autonomous Campaigns 7 Fundraising Membership What you can do CND in 2005 CND Personnel Treasurers Report Contacts 17 18 19 20 21 22 23

reventing the government replacing the Trident nuclear weapons system is the greatest challenge that we face in 2006. We do not yet know when that decision will be made some fear that it has already been made behind closed doors but we know that we have to build the broadest possible alliances across society, mobilising public opinion as extensively as we can, to prevent it becoming a reality. Of course we face many hurdles: John Reid argues, and Tony Blair concurs, that Britain needs to retain its nuclear deterrent in spite of the fact that virtually everyone, including Blair, agrees that nuclear weapons are absolutely no use against the current security threats that we face. The public and parliamentary debate, which Reid announced in September, will not include the option of non-replacement, if the government has its way. That is our task to get non-replacement onto the agenda of the debate, and to get our nuclear weapons considered in the context of international law and treaty obligations. We must mount convincing arguments that the way to end the threat of nuclear proliferation and nuclear war is to begin the process of disarmament, as required by the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. This is a great challenge, but we have much on our side. A recent public opinion poll showed that 54% of the population oppose Trident Replacement when they realise it could cost up to 25 billion. And we are building on strong foundations in our campaigning, for much has already been initiated in 2005. Since last summer, CND has facilitated a regular strategy group, drawing together a range of organisations. There has been strong opposition by MPs, with Parliamentary CND playing a key role. Amongst the trade unions there has been significant opposition, much down to the initiative of CND and its affiliated unions. Work is underway in the faith communities, public meetings are being organised around the country, opposition is planned at related bases and facilities like Faslane and Aldermaston, and campaigning materials have been produced. The most urgent local campaigning material is the No Trident Replacement Petition. I have challenged every CND member to get a minimum of 10 signatures on the petition form that you will find with this Annual Review. If that were achieved, we would have hundreds of thousands of signatures to hand in to the Prime Minister at Easter. Please do all you can to support this. Our key current demands are enshrined in parliamentary Early Day Motion 1197, which calls for a full debate, including on the option of non-replacement and demands that the decision be made by Parliament. Please contact your MP and ask them to sign up to it. Put the arguments to them about why weapons of mass destruction cannot secure peace and security for Britain and the world. There is much else to engage us in the year ahead. The next stop in the US war drive may be Iran, and we must oppose any attack. Military strikes are not the answer to the regions complex issues, as the situation in Iraq clearly shows. Diplomatic solutions must be pursued. Nuclear power is also on the agenda again in Britain and we are working to oppose the building of a new generation of nuclear power stations. We believe there is sufficient evidence to demonstrate that nuclear power is not a clean, safe answer to climate change, whatever the nuclear industry may tell us. Thank you for everything you have done for the cause of peace and nuclear disarmament over the past year. Let us work to ensure that 2006 is the year in which we build ever greater opposition to nuclear weapons and war.

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Kate Hudson, Chair CND 1

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CND in 2005
Trident in the UK he issue of Trident Replacement has leapt to the top of the political agenda this year, with a decision due to be made during the course of this parliament. CNDs top priority is to make sure that the option of not replacing Trident is brought to the fore, that the majority view of the public, which is against replacing Trident, is expressed, and that the final decision is made by parliament, not behind closed doors. In September we organised a strategic planning conference, working with other anti-nuclear groups to plan an effective campaign. These groups continue to meet regularly and draw together a range of sectors. Parliamentary CND has been active calling for a Green Paper considering all options including nonreplacement and a vote by parliament, including Early Day Motion (EDM) 1197 put down by Michael Meacher MP. We held a successful public meeting in parliament opposing a Trident replacement, addressed by three former ministers, and the issue was discussed at fringe meetings at both Labour and Liberal Democrat Annual Conferences. Opposition to the replacement is also growing amongst the trade unions and faith communities, and we continue to ensure that the issue is raised in the press on all possible occasions. CND actively supports the Block the Builders campaign at AWE Aldermaston, where the replacement is to be developed. We also continue our priority campaigning to scrap the existing Trident system, through our work against the refit at Devonport Dockyards including supporting the activities of Trident Ploughshares and the Nuclear Free Coalition in Plymouth and the work of East Midlands CND at Rolls Royce in Derby where the fuel plates for reactors are produced. CND also worked with Scottish CND and Trident Ploughshares to organise the very successful blockade of Faslane during the G8 summit week in July.

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Jeremy Corbyn MP, Michael Meacher MP and Jim Devine MP at the CND organised public meeting on No Trident Replacement Photo: Ben Folley

Hiroshima and Nagasaki anniversaries The 60th anniversary of the atomic bombings dominated much of our campaigning in 2005. We worked to make the links between the bombings and the fact that they were not needed to end the war and the current threats of new nuclear weapons and nuclear use. Our Countdown to Hiroshima campaign provided materials for local campaigning: exhibitions sent over from Japan were widely used around the country; the Abolition Now petition received thousands of signatures and was the focus for Bruce Kents national CND tour in the spring; and peace education work was prioritised, especially amongst young people. A peace education pack was launched at teachers union conferences, a peace poetry competition was run in conjunction with the Mayor of London and poet Adrian Mitchell, and a CND delegation went to Hiroshima and Nagasaki for the memorial events. On the date of the Hiroshima bombing, two full page statements were published in the national press, calling for nuclear abolition.

They were made possible by the generosity of CND members and supporters, including a number of trade unions. NPT Review Conference Over 20 CND delegates attended the 2005 NPT Review Conference in New York to lobby diplomats to make progress on nuclear disarmament. No progress was made, but the US was thwarted in its attempts to roll back the strengthened disarmament commitment made in 2000. CND co-hosted a peace reception with United for Peace and Justice, the big new US peace coalition, and made many new links with NGOs and campaigning groups worldwide. We also produced a popular briefing paper and held a packed fringe meeting with a range of speakers from around the world, including Japan, the US, France and Britain. London Assembly Member Jenny Jones participated, representing the Mayor of London, a wellknown supporter of the Mayors for Peace initiative. CNDs banner was also in evidence on a big No War, No Nukes march from the UN building to Central Park which attracted over 40,000 people. CND

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Peace poetry prize winner Joanne Small with Kate Hudson and Jenny Jones, Green member of the GLA

meetings and demonstrations. This ended with events at the two Yorkshire bases of Menwith Hill and Fylingdales. We work to highlight the continuing militarisation of space and the ongoing development of anti-satellite and space based weapons by the US in particular. Despite Canadas February announcement that it would not join in with US missile defence plans, countries such as the UK, Japan, Taiwan, Australia and India are participating in and/or buying into it, and some eastern European countries like Poland have even expressed a willingness to accept US anti-ballistic missiles on their soil. Technologies used for missile defence can also be used for offence and the US is developing ground, air, sea and space based weapons, not only to protect the space systems that the military now rely upon but also to be able to study and possibly target anywhere and everywhere on Earth. NATO and Europe CNDs Europe for Peace Conference, organised jointly with Le Mouvement de la Paix, and hosted by Greater Manchester CND early in the year was a great success. Participants from across Europe joined and heard a range of speakers, including two MEPs, make a persuasive case for a Europe of Peace. Delegates agreed a common statement and joint activity in the future. We also worked to make a strong case against those articles of the proposed EU constitution which advance the greater militarisation of Europe and its increased integration with NATO nuclear policies. Anti-NATO campaigning was strengthened through the increased popular awareness of the location of US nuclear weapons under the auspices of NATO across Europe. Over a hundred of these are located in Britain at the Lakenheath air base in East Anglia. CND produced a very useful briefing on this subject in the autumn, thanks to Davida Higgin from Lakenheath Action Group. We also continue to participate in the European Network for Peace and Human Rights, called together by the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, and in the European Social Forum. 3

Photos: Sue Longbottom Sixty symbolic blue and white balloons were released outside City Hall, London to commemmorate the 60th anniversaries of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

has also worked to raise Britains noncompliance with the NPT through work in parliament including an adjournment debate, diplomatic lobbying and press work. Missile Defence and space weapons CND produced information and organised protests on these issues throughout the year. The busiest month in the campaign was October when we held an international conference in Leeds (organised by Yorkshire CND) on space security called Knocking on Heavens Door. Speakers and activists involved in the protest against missile defence and space warfare in the US and Europe attended. Bruce Gagnon, co-

ordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space gave a global perspective on space and US power projection, while Stacey Fritz from No Nukes North and Dennis Apel from the Vandenberg Action Coalition described actions and campaigns focused on the ABM missile silos in Alaska and California. Jean Lambert MEP was also able to give up to date, useful information from an EU viewpoint, including the latest on the US insistence that they should be able to jam the Galileo system (the European alternative to GPS) whenever they consider this necessary. After the conference and during the International Keep Space for Peace Week, Bruce Gagnon toured Britain, speaking at

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Nuclear Power The governments announcement of its Energy Review which will consider the possibility of new build nuclear power stations, together with an extensive PR campaign on behalf of the nuclear industry, has brought nuclear power to the fore again. Following an overwhelming vote against new build nuclear power stations at CND National Conference in October 2005, we made sure that there was a good CND presence at a national Climate Change demonstration in London in December, where we handed out a newly-produced leaflet explaining why nuclear power is not the answer to climate change. Work is ongoing on a detailed briefing on the issues, which will be available in early 2006. Occupation of Iraq and new threats of war We have continued to work to secure the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq and for an end to the occupation. This issue was a theme of our very successful fringe meeting at Labour Party conference. We have also jointly organised demonstrations on this theme with the Stop the War Coalition and the Muslim Association of Britain and also worked with the Coalition on the successful Peace Camp in Trafalgar Square in spring 2005. In addition, we have continued to raise the dangers of further illegal wars launched by the US, in the context of their manipulation of the nuclear proliferation issue. The danger of an attack on Iran is considerable, and CND is working to raise its concerns for a peaceful resolution, devoid of US/UK nuclear hypocrisy, with the media, diplomats and parliamentarians. We produced a briefing on Iran, which is being updated for 2006. Poverty and war The Make Poverty History initiative from a range of development NGOs presented us with the opportunity to make the links between nuclear weapons, war and poverty to a much wider and more diverse audience than usual. MPH organised a big demonstration in Edinburgh at the time of the G8 Summit at Gleneagles in Scotland. CND affiliated to the MPH coalition, working under the slogans Bread not Bombs and Water not War. We had a successful 4

CND making the links between nuclear weapons, war and poverty at the Make Poverty History demonstration, Edinburgh

CND gets the message across at the March for Peace and Liberty in London, jointly organised with MAB and STWC Photo: Dave Esbester

stall, and also participated in a number of meetings at the G8 Alternative Summit to get our anti-nuclear issues over more widely. Press and Parliamentary We continue to work extensively with the media and have secured a higher media profile around the question of Trident replacement. A range of articles on this subject and others related to CND has appeared in diverse newspapers and

magazines, and we have received regular television and radio coverage, nationally and locally. CNDs cross-party Parliamentary Group, chaired by Jeremy Corbyn MP, has received strong support in the new parliament, and has already made an impact on opposing Trident Replacement. CND has prepared a range of EDMs and Parliamentary Questions on current antinuclear and related issues. We continue to produce Lobby regularly to assist CND

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actions at Fairford. The judge ruled that the illegality of the war could not be used as a defence but that acting to prevent a war crime could. Both sides appealed against this judgment at the Court of Appeal. This court ruled again that the illegality of the war could not be used as a defence but that lawful excuse was available for use as a defence. The issues are now to be put before the House of Lords, and five Law Lords will hear the case on Monday 20 -27th February 2006. The Law Lords will look at crime and lawful activity and their application to 'crime against peace/crime of aggression' as in customary international law and whether a criminal court can adjudicate where the Crowns prerogative powers are used to wage war. The Royal prerogative was the issue when CND took the government to court in 2002 in an attempt to prevent the invasion of Iraq and the CND case has already been cited by the court of appeal in this case. The constitutional, criminal and international case law implications of these appeals are monumental and the political ramifications more so. Legal experts consider that there is good ground to suppose that the trial will be an early candidate for Peace trial of the Century. A detailed but comprehensible review of this case can be found on the CND website www.cnduk.org or contact Dawn at the CND office for a copy. Letter-writing CNDs letter-writing team has again had a busy year. We provide background information and a list of points to make, eight or nine times a year. We started off in 2005 by concentrating on the nuclear NonProliferation Treaty Review Conference, with letters to the UK and US delegates to the Conference, and to Ambassador Duarte, who chaired it. After statements by the government that the NPT gave the UK the right to possess nuclear weapons, we wrote to ask Jack Straw to which article of the NPT he was referring. We did not receive a reply. In the summer, we wrote about the weaponisation of space and the status of US tactical nuclear weapons in Europe. Our autumn letters were all about the possible replacement of Trident. We ended the year 5

The CND action-camp at Glastonbury led peace education activities focusing on the anniversary of Hiroshima, using paper crane making, storytelling, flag making and music to actively engage and educate a wide range of people Photo: Rachel Anderson

members who wish to raise current issues with their constituency MPs. During the general election campaign, a number of peace hustings were organised by CND groups, aided by CNDs election pack, which provided questions and information on topical issues of relevance in the election. Legal initiatives The case against Blair, Straw and Hoon for War Crimes and crimes against humanity is still being considered by the prosecutor, Luis Moreno Ocampo, at the International

Criminal Court. In December 2004, the prosecutor was presented with the results of the War Crimes tribunal, held earlier that year, organised by Peacerights, with support from CND. His first response was to describe the war crimes allegations as 'one of the most significant' cases he had seen, which were being given deserved weight by his investigators; but we are still awaiting any further response. In the last annual review we reported on the Fairford Five case where the illegality of the war as a defensive argument was being used by a number of activists on trial for

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sending Christmas cards to Mordechai Vanunu. Letters inform, encourage and express our point of view. Not everyone can write every letter but even one a year helps. We shall start 2006 with evidence to the Defence Select Committee on Trident replacement. To join, please contact Katy, SystemsOfficer@cnduk.org, or ring the National office, indicating whether you want to receive information by e-mail or post. Other CNDs trade union work has made big strides during 2005, with our national trade union affiliations doubling. We organised a fringe meeting at TUC Congress in September on opposing Trident Replacement, and worked with a number of trade union general secretaries to get a letter to that effect in the national press. We also launched a new regular newsletter for trade unionists CND-Trade Union Link. Our international work continues, with CND represented at a range of events, including the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre in Brazil in January, where we participated in sessions opposing nuclear weapons and war, as well as antimilitarisation and anti-foreign base campaigning. We are affiliated to the International Peace Bureau in Geneva, and we continue to work closely with Le Mouvement de la Paix in France and with other European peace groups as well as groups in the US, India, the Philippines, Japan and elsewhere. At both national and international level we also stepped up our activities campaigning against depleted uranium munitions. As regards the Middle East we have strengthened our work opposing Israeli nuclear weapons and in July we co-organised a lobby of parliament on this issue with the Palestine Solidarity Campaign and the Campaign for a Nuclear Weapons Free Middle East. We also worked with the United Nations Association and other organizations on a lobby of parliament on the question of the nuclear NonProliferation Treaty. We increased our presence at festivals during 2005, with attendance at five largescale events, including at Glastonbury where a special edition of Campaign was distributed. 6

Kate Hudson and Pat Arrowsmith protest against the ban on demonstrating in Parliament Square, 1st August 2005

Our CND action-camp led peace education activities focused on the anniversary of Hiroshima, using paper crane making, storytelling, flag making and music to actively engage and educate a wide range of people. CND also had a campaigning stall at these events, which further helped to raise awareness of nuclear issues amongst young people and generated much interest in CND and many signatures for our No New Nukes petition. We supported activities at a range of bases and military sites, including Brize Norton, Lakenheath and Croughton. In opposing the Terrorism Bill in November, CND supported a successful lobby of Parliament together with other organisations, notably Liberty, and produced a detailed briefing highlighting the bills attack on civil liberties and the limits it would place on protests at nuclear weapons sites. It is impossible, for reasons of space, to mention all the areas of work that CND has engaged in over the last year, but a huge amount has been achieved. We have received much help over researching and writing briefings and peace education material. We would like to thank all CND members, staff, volunteers, office interns, supportive MPs and trade unionists, and our allies across a whole range of peace groups and anti-war organizations. We are extremely grateful to all of them together we will continue to make an impact as we work towards our

common goal of peace and nuclear disarmament. Website Our website is a huge resource for our members, the public, teachers, school pupils, journalists, anyone in fact. Do take a look! For those of you without your own computer, go along to your local library where someone will show you how to reach our website. The address is www.cnduk.org On the website you will find briefings on many subjects, press releases, information on our major campaigns, leaflets to download, peace education resources and even the CND constitution and our audited accounts. We will soon be adding a resources section for groups and an interactive map with lots of useful information. We will also be improving navigation tools on the website so that you can find the information you want more easily. Our improved online shop has just been launched and new members can now join via the website. You can also make donations to CND there and find information about leaving a legacy to CND. The front page provides information about our current campaigns and is updated at least once a week along with the diary page. This contains information about events happening in the coming year. If you are having a special event you want publicised on the website, do let us know the details.

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Nations, regions, specialist sections and autonomous campaigns

CND Cymru he 60th anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki provided our focus for the nuclear disarmament message in 2005. CND Cymru took a new bilingual exhibition to The National Eisteddfod in Bangor, to Freshers Fairs and to the Plaid Cymru Conference. Public Meetings included a brilliantly attended meeting with Bruce Kent hosted by Torfaen Borough Council whose mayor attended the NPT Conference in New York in May. A full page statement to commemorate Hiroshima and Nagasaki was published in the Western Mail (the national newspaper of Wales) paid for by subscribers on Hiroshima Day. Three editions of heddwch magazine, a bilingual CND Cymru briefing on the possible replacement of Trident and a leaflet about Government plans for new nuclear weapons were distributed. CND Cymru has also been one of the many objectors to the new developments at Aldermaston AWE. CND Cymru has been involved in discussions about how to meet the pronuclear power lobby in the face of fears about the effects of global warming and shortages of oil and gas supplies. Bruce Gagnon and Dave Knight from The Global Campaign against Nuclear Power and Weapons in Space spoke at a meeting in the National Assembly of Wales and a public meeting in the Temple of Peace, Cardiff. A Wales-wide inventory of institutions, sites and companies with military connections (The Khaki Dragon project) is being prepared. Work on the CND Cymru website is also ongoing. There are some strong and active Welsh peace and justice groups, many of whom are affiliated to CND Cymru, whom we work with and support on a range of issues apart from nuclear disarmament, including nuclear power, direct actions at army recruitment

Despite the fact that in 1986, Wales was permanently contaminated with fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear accident, the powerful nuclear industry lobby are pushing nuclear energy as the solution to global warming. Nuclear weapons and nuclear energy are now issues on which our evolving National Assembly cannot legislate, but they could at least speak on our behalf at Westminster by giving voice to our commitments to environmental sustainability, and to Welsh radical traditions of internationalism, peace and justice. So here comes 2006 in our post Chernobyl, globally warming world CND Cymru will be focusing on working to dispel the nuclear myth, and working to stop plans for Trident replacement, supporting the Block the Builders campaign at Aldermaston and Faslane 365. See you there! Scottish CND In June we asked MPs and MSPs for their views on Trident replacement. There was a good response from a cross-section of MSPs. Several MPs also replied. We have encouraged individual members and supporters to write to their MPs or to arrange to meet them to discuss this issue. Many have taken up this suggestion. We have produced and distributed postcards for MPs, leaflets and petitions. In July our Coordinator, John Ainslie, attended a meeting at the Royal United Services Institute in London and met MoD officials. A 120 page report on the Future of British Nuclear Weapons written by John Ainslie and published by the WMD Awareness Programme, was launched in the House of Commons in October. Scottish CND initiated the Scotlands for Peace project which was launched in March. Other participants include churches and trade unions. A Forum was held in September with workshops 7

centres, Rights for the people of Palestine, and Dim un farw yn fwy (Not one More Death) actions (Iraq and Afghanistan). CND Cymru continues to work internationally, and with other British campaigning organisations, and will be supporting Block the Builders, Trident Ploughshares and Faslane 365 in 2006. CND Cymru youth member Emily Freeman attended the European Youth Unite for Nuclear Disarmament Founding meeting in Milan, Italy in October. The huge campaigning task ahead will take lots of our commitment, energy and imagination. Our situation today has similarities to that of 25 years ago. Then, Welsh campaigners were working to achieve a Nuclear Free Wales with nuclear waste burial being planned, Trident being discussed and US nuclear armed Cruise Missiles about to be based in Europe.

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on: Trident, Defence Diversification, Creating a Scottish Centre for Peace and Justice, Linking War and Poverty, and Peace Education. A separate website was created at www.scotland4peace.org There was a joint CND/Scottish CND stall at the Make Poverty History march and rally in Edinburgh on 2nd July. Several hundred CND flags bearing the messages Bread not Bombs and Water not War were sold. Scottish CND had an input into G8 Alternatives which organised an alternative summit in Edinburgh on 3rd July. We were also present at the Gleneagles march and rally. There was a substantial turn out at the blockade of Faslane on 4th July, jointly organised by Scottish CND, British CND and Trident Ploughshares. The blockade closed the base for the day. The atmosphere was peaceful and the only arrests made were of a few people who tried to enter the base. Scottish CND continued to provide support for the Scottish Coalition for Justice not War which was involved in organising two events in March. Commemorative events were organised for the 60th anniversary of Hiroshima in East Kilbride, Dundee, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Ayrshire and Helensburgh. We supported the production of the 60-60 Anthology, a collection of poems and prose to mark the anniversary. Scottish CND has provided administrative support for the Cross Party Group on Nuclear Disarmament in the Scottish Parliament. An additional Cross Party Group on a Culture of Peace was set up in September. In 2005 we printed and distributed Fortress Scotland. This substantial publication describes military facilities across Scotland. The information is also available on the Scottish CND website: www.banthebomb.org. There are existing Scottish CND groups in Helensburgh, Ayrshire, East Kilbride, Glasgow West, Stirling, Highlands and Edinburgh. Meetings were held to establish new groups in Perth and Kirkcaldy. 8

Cambridge CND at the Strawberry Fair

our members did some Nukewatching of warhead convoys. One of our main activities of the year was at the June Strawberry Fair in Cambridge held in the centre of the city on Midsummer Common. There we had a Cambridgeshire CND stall in amongst all of the other tents and it was again a very busy year with hundreds of people signing our petitions and lots of interest in CND campaigns. New this year was the paper crane folding workshop that we ran in addition to all of the badges, cards, leaflets and posters available. Cumbria & North Lancs CND One of our 2005 priorities was collecting signatures for current CND petitions. Many members also wrote to the Mayor of Carlisle urging him to join Mayors for Peace. We are still awaiting a response During the year one group held regular vigils at Market Cross which were very well received by the public. On one occasion a local Conservative candidate attended the vigil and had an interesting, amicable discussion with the group. Bruce Kents visit to Carlisle, as part of his No More Hiroshimas tour, was very successful. Many people talked to him and signed the petition, and he said this had been one of the best public responses he had experienced so far on his tour. We organised many events as part of the Hiroshima campaign including exhibitions in libraries and running stalls with leaflets and petitions. In Carlisle members placed flowers in the Peace Garden where a placard was also displayed. In Lancaster we had a display of paper cranes made by local school children which was attended by Eiko Nakamura from Hiroshima who also contributed a paper crane to the display and returned to Japan with pictures and an excerpt from the local paper to show what was happening in the region to commemorate the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This year the Lancaster group vigorously supported West Yorkshires campaign against the upgrading of Fylingdales. One of our regional members is also a

East Midlands CND and TP informing the public about Rolls Royce actions

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In 2006 we are working on proposals for a peace walk from Faslane to the Scottish Parliament and for an Aldermaston demonstration. We will encourage and help our members and supporters to lobby their MPs and MSPs on Trident. We will continue to develop Scotland's for Peace and support the Cross Party Group in the Scottish Parliament. Our education committee plans to produce new material on nuclear power and to back a new anthology in support of Mordechai Vanunu. CND Regions Cambridgeshire CND Area Network In 2005 our members made their presence felt at the Stop the War Coalition/CND/MAB marches in London and at the G8/Make Poverty History rally in Edinburgh and the subsequent blockade at Faslane. We also participated in demonstrations at Molesworth and Lakenheath. Some of

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Leicester CNDs Hiroshima Day events supported by Sir Peter Soulsby MP

member of the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management and regularly attended their meetings. East Midlands CND In mind of the NPT Conference and the Hiroshima and Nagasaki commemorations, our Region provided several venues for Bruce Kents national tour in March. In July we helped with transport costs for CND members to travel up to G8 protests in Scotland. With three candles on our birthday cake EMCND moved into collaboration with Trident Ploughshares. The support of a 2004 Conference Resolution, TPs experience in previous Derby actions, and regular meetings progressed the best demonstration at Rolls-Royce Raynesway for years, three days of action from October 22nd 2005. An accident near the reactor site in

March focused our concern. Irradiated discharges, nuclear waste, and the driving force of Rolls Royce in constructing reactors for the Trident fleet were highlighted, bearing in mind the grave safety reservations the Nuclear Inspectorate expressed about site practice. Local Emergency Planners ignored us. With thousands of leaflets distributed, the 22nd saw Di MacDonald (Nukewatch) and Roger Morbey (CAAT) speaking to a packed hall in Alvaston near to the reactor facility. On Monday 24th, ten people were arrested and a two hour assembly of 50 people subject to a public order notice, in pouring rain, provoked honking support from passing motorists. We gained publicity from local press, TV, radio and several columns in The Independent which coincided very well with the launch of the Greenpeace/Mori poll on attitudes to Trident Replacement.

Leicester We held fortnightly stalls and talks, had letters published in the Leicester Mercury and participated in the Leicester Social Forum, Quaker vigils, CND/Stop the War/MAB marches and the Make Poverty History demonstration. We also raised the ethics of DU munitions at an army presentation a more surprising invitation! Special moments included Bruce Kents energising visit. Our own visits to RAF Molesworth, were greeted by armed US soldiers and chatty MoD policemen. We participated in major local festivals including Leicester Gay Pride and a music festival, Summer Sundae. We commemorated Peace One Day and Workers Memorial Day (placing a wreath to workers killed in nuclear industries). Hiroshima day coincided with the Caribbean Carnival and after readings and 'dying' in the city centre, we helped carnival visitors to make peace cranes which were placed in Leicester peace walks cherry tree. We are increasingly concerned with educational activity and widening the campaign base hence sessions on a members book on Blairism, visits to local schools, and the planning of our Trident War Machine and Renewable Energy conference on February 4th. For more information contact Anna Cheetham on 01162 705604 or e-mail acheetham@beeb.net Greater Manchester & District CND Our main success in 2005 was organising the Europe for Peace Conference, supported by the French Mouvement de la Paix. The conference saw delegates and speakers attend from the UK, France, Germany, Belgium, Finland, Ireland and the Netherlands. Speakers (who included two MEPs) and workshops covered a range of issues including NATO, nuclear disarmament, and the threat to peace from Europes constitutional treaty. A conference statement was agreed by all delegates. Subsequently it was sent out to peace, anti-nuclear and anti-war groups across Europe for endorsement. It has 9

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now been translated into several European languages, including Russian. This conference was the first major activity undertaken by GM&D CND as part of the regions work for National CND on Strategic Objective 3 for a Nuclear-free, less militarised and more secure Europe. In 2005 GM&D CND produced two new anti-nuclear power leaflets: one focusing on the security aspects, titled Nuclear Terrorism Alert, and the other a general leaflet titled Nuclear Power? No Thanks!. These leaflets, along with a regionally produced anti-nuclear power petition, were sent to all regional CND offices and every CND group in England. They were so well received that we are now on a third print-run of both leaflets and the petition is gaining momentum. London Region CND London Region worked hard to raise awareness of the 60th anniversaries of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the new nuclear danger posed by the war drive. Many local groups organised exhibitions in libraries and in the local communities, and new links were made with schools. Together with Hampstead CND, London Region organised a very successful Hiroshima Day ceremony in Tavistock Square which was supported by National CND. The event attracted considerable media attention, not only because of the anniversary itself, but also because Tavistock Square had been the scene of one of the recent terrorist attacks. Speakers included the Mayor of Camden, Andrew Murray, Chair of the Stop the War Coalition and the Rev. Nagase, of Battersea Peace Pagoda. Members of London Region helped in the preparation and participated in the strong delegation to New York for the NPT Conference. The Region also seized the opportunity of the Make Poverty History G8 protests to raise our antinuclear message in the international development movement and took minibuses full of activists to demonstrate in Edinburgh and blockade Faslane. Members helped sell the popular CND Bread not Bombs flags and distribute 10

CNDs Fight Poverty not War leaflets. Opposing Trident replacement has been a particular focus of campaigning, with members lobbying MPs and mobilising for the successful parliamentary meeting in December. London Region continued to oppose the developments at Aldermaston AWE, objecting to planning permission and participating in the Block the Builders blockade. The region mobilised for the national demonstrations against the on-going occupation of Iraq, with members helping to ensure CND had a high profile. The terrible bombings that took place in London on 7th July, and the further attempt two weeks later, were profoundly shocking. London members participated in the peace and unity vigils, commemorations and rallies that took place. We also participated in the huge meeting in Westminster Central Hall against attacks on civil liberties, free speech and the right to protest and submitted an emergency resolution to our annual conference. We again promoted CND at the 3,000strong Capitalwoman conference, and members had a stall at Londons antiracist festival in South London. Merseyside CND Our big move this time last year we were looking forward to moving our office but a whole year has gone by and we still havent moved. We now feel it will be early January 2006 but we are not holding out breath! Our new address will be 50-54 Mount Pleasant, L3 and our email address and telephone number will remain the same. Our local groups continue to have regular meetings and ensure that we are represented at local events in the community showing the face of CND. An International Month of Action for Peace and Justice in April saw us involved in a public meeting with a number of speakers, including from CND. We also held a successful campaign on current issues. We are grateful to those members who regularly staff stalls in both halls and fairs, and also on the street stall in the centre of Liverpool, highlighting the issues. April continued to be a busy

month, supporting the Global Week of Action for Trade organised by Christian Aid. On the 26th April we held our annual remembrance event Remember Chernobyl on the 19th Anniversary at our Peace Garden in the city centre. Speakers included representatives from Chernobyl Childrens Project UK (Liverpool Group) and the Campaign Against Depleted Uranium. In early May we were privileged to meet with a group of women from Japan and the US invited to Liverpool by Merseyside Women for Peace. We discussed current peace issues in this country, including the continuing presence of US bases. On 4th July, Independence from America Day Celebrations at Menwith Hill were supported by a number of our members. Our member on National Council Gina Shaw attended the nuclear NonProliferation Treaty Review Conference at the UN, New York, where she immensely enjoyed meeting so many people from the international community who are as committed to peace as we are. Gina also attended debates in the UN general chamber and heard Kofi Annan speak at the Mayors for Peace session as well as Yoko Ono speaking against nuclear weapons. A number of our members travelled up to Edinburgh in July to attend the Make Poverty History demonstration. On the 6th August we remembered all the victims of war on the 60th Anniversary of Hiroshima in the Peace Garden where the Lord Mayor of Liverpool laid a wreath and addressed the gathering. Norwich CND The year kicked off brilliantly with Bruce Kents visit in February; he inspired and encouraged people in the city centre, over 800 signing the abolition petition. We had support from Ian Gibson MP and the Dean of Norwich Cathedral and received plenty of good media coverage. We even managed to complete the days work just before it began to snow! We also supported demonstrations at Lakenheath, in April and September, and worked with Norwich Peace Council to mount two further showings of the Peace

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Exhibition (one in Norwich City Hall), consisting mainly of excellent panels from the Bradford Peace Museum. We are now planning to take it into local schools. Our annual shadow painting for Hiroshima Day in the main shopping street involved more painters than ever, and we also organised a well-attended service in the cathedral, floated lanterns on the river (we hope to do this better next year!), and took part in a Fasting for a Nuclear-free World event over the whole weekend in front of the central parish church, which drew much interest and support. In September we held a public meeting with Dr. Peter Nicholls as speaker. We helped to send our Chair to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty conference in New York in May, about which she commented, The official conference was a dismal failure but the NGO part was a great success. We were also represented at CNDs Preventing Trident Replacement Conference in September and have begun publicising the issues in our newsletter and making plans for this years main campaign. We were active in EAPEACE, the East Anglian peace network we helped to found, which is now planning its third conference after the success of the ones in previous years. We have just gone live with a website to further the network's aim of facilitating contact among the peace groups in the region: www.eapeace.org.uk South Cheshire & North Staffs (SCANS) CND Being no April Fool, Alison, a member from Stafford, spent 1st April tracking one of the warhead convoys that travel along the M6. She joined Stafford campaigners at a vigil for the Iraq wars second anniversary and, in the autumn, protested with East Midlands CND in Derby, to draw attention to Rolls Royces role as the driving force behind Trident. She also did this as a Trident Ploughshares activist, which led to involvement at the Faslane blockade, and arrest at NATOs Brussels HQ while bomspotting. You can find photos of this and other events on our website

had lodged with Bruce when he was London Universitys chaplain, and who had been interested in Mayors for Peace. However as he wasnt re-elected, we shall have to start again with a new mayor. For the Hiroshima and Nagasaki anniversaries one of our members fasted. We leafleted in the town centre, and had an information display which received good publicity. We used the display on our usual Sunday in the Park stall and made paper cranes. We are based in Stoke-on-Trent, but cover a wider area. We produce a regular newsletter for members whose support we greatly value. We would welcome more national members living in the area. Do write to us at SCANS, PO Box 2127, ST1 1LY.
Bruce Kent with the Mayor of Chesterfield, Nicky Quazi (left) and Leader of the Council, Cllr Ray Russell

The Peace flag created in flowers by Isle of Wight CND to mark the Hiroshima and Nagasaki anniversaries, was displayed in Ventnor Botanic Gardens

www.scanscnd.org.uk expertly administered by one of our members. Another member, John Sloboda, is Director of the Oxford Research Group, and runs Iraq Body Count. We were invited to Keele Universitys activity week in 2005 where we ran a Non Violent Direct Action workshop (which was repeated before the G8), and one of our members, Jen, arranged a film show and spoke at a meeting. Manchesters Europe for Peace conference was publicised, and as a result Japanese students attended it. Bruce Kent joined us on a very well publicised visit to our elected mayor, who

Southern Region Southampton CND operates as part of Solent Coalition Against Nuclear Ships. We have actively and successfully opposed the entry of nuclear ships and submarines into Southampton port in 2005. The region has also financially supported a number of organisations including Nukewatch. There were events all around the region to commemorate Hiroshima and Nagasaki: members of Kidlington Peace Campaign met up for readings around a special peace tree they planted on the 6th August 1981. Southampton CND held a packed public meeting with Bruce Kent and the Mayor of Southampton speaking. In addition to their regular CND flare circle on the beach and using traditional well-dressing techniques, Isle of Wight members created a beautiful rainbow flag in flowers which was then displayed in Ventnor Botanic Gardens for the week. In September, Kidlington members helped organise the annual Croughton Rally with guest speaker Lindis Percy from the CAAB. RAF Croughton is a US communications base and the successful rally highlighted how the base supports US military operations including guiding bombers, diplomatic communications, other military operations and potentially missile defence. A giant letter to the Base Commander was hung on the perimeter fence. 11

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Faringdon Peace Groups 25th Birthday was a wonderful event held in October. The Town Mayor and local clergy were among more than 150 attendees for our Day for Peace with 80 staying on for the delicious L.O.A.F. (local, organic, animal friendly, Fair Trade) supper in the evening. Hopefully many more visited the displays of peace group memorabilia and childrens art work in the library and Friends Meeting House. Thought-provoking speeches came from John McDonnell MP, Bruce Kent, Felicity Arbuthnot and Juliet McBride and Ippy from the Aldermaston Womens Peace Camp. To commemorate 25 years of working for peace, an oak tree was planted near the pond in Folly Park; a beautiful setting for future peace picnics. South West Region CND Exeter CND Our peace shop has been an ideal base for collecting petition signatures and selling campaigning materials such as badges, stickers, T-shirts, posters, postcards and white poppies. We have managed to keep it open five days a week, entirely staffed by volunteers! The shop also serves as an information centre for the public with a frequently-changed campaigning exhibition in our window. Materials from the shop are used on stalls, for example at the Labour Party bazaar. It also serves as our office and meeting place. In 2005 we corresponded with MPs about the NPT Review Conference and Trident replacement, wrote to West Berkshire District Council about developments at Aldermaston, and replied to Consultation documents from the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management. We also had letters printed in the local press on the issue of Trident replacement. On 15th February Bruce Kent spoke in St Stephens Church as part of CNDs Abolition Now tour. On this occasion the Lord Mayor of Exeter signed the Mayors Declaration for a Nuclear-Free World. Afterwards we collected signatures on the High Street for the Time to Abolish Nuclear Weapons Everywhere petition. On 10th March CND Vice-Chair Rae 12

Brighton & Hove Councillor Brian Fitch with the Mayors for Peace Delegation at the NPT Review Conference in New York Photo: George Farebrother

Street spoke at a public meeting titled WMD, US Imperialism and CND which was held after our AGM. Together with Trade Justice, on 14th April, we held another public meeting where author and activist Milan Rai spoke on Counter Terror, Build Justice. For Hiroshima week we organised for the Hiroshima exhibition from Japan to be displayed in the central public library. There we collected Affirmations of Freedom from Nuclear Weapons for the World Court Project. On Hiroshima Day we had an exhibition in the High Street, made paper cranes, distributed leaflets and collected Affirmations. We have taken on the administration of South West Region CND funds and organised the election of new Regional Officers through a questionnaire to all CND members in the region. We include in our newsletter a regional page with news from CND and peace groups in Devon and Cornwall. Tavistock Peace Action Group Tavistock Peace Action Group held a vigil in November to remember all the victims of the Iraq war, and particularly the innocent Iraqis killed in the massive assault on Fallujah on 8th November 2004. We also launched a twinningprogramme with a peace group in

Corvallis Oregon, USA. Our two new members, Bill and Leslie Glassmire, were instrumental in starting a daily vigil there four years ago. Sussex Peace Alliance (SPA) Throughout the year Sussex Peace Alliance (SPA) has held regular six-weekly meetings, sharing valuable information with and between constituent groups and reporting on the results in widely distributed minutes. Working well with other local groups SPA organised a public showing of the Movement for the Abolition of Wars War no More video, with speaker Bruce Kent. Bruce also helped with the street collection of signatures for the Abolition petition. SPA worked successfully with other local groups, on a full programme for the 60th commemoration of Hiroshima. There was an exhibition at Friends Meeting House and a lantern ceremony in Queens Park, Brighton. Speakers included the Mayor, CND Vice-President Canon Paul Oestreicher, and Richard Jolly from UNA. The Quakers organised a vigil and paper crane folding. There was a long article in our local paper The Argus. SPA contacts sent a European Parliamentary Declaration on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to their MEPs asking them to support it.

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Earlier in the year, SPA members attended the 2005 UNA Lobby of Parliament. SPA Secretary George Farebrother discussed an NPT briefing with his MP, Charles Hendry. It suggested a succession of steps the UK might take towards achieving nuclear disarmament. Several Sussex MPs responded fully to the materials we sent them in 2005, which included the CND briefing on Trident Replacement and information about Clare Short's Bill on parliamentary oversight of armed conflict. SPA also wrote to James Arbuthnot, Chair of the Defence Select Committee, asking for the committee to consider issues raised by any replacement of Trident. SPA contacts also wrote to their MPs drawing their attention to the Millenium Summit Review. A dismal outlook gave way to clement weather for the SPA garden party, which was well attended and raised 219 for the Alliance. The SPA Resolution on the need to encourage the foundation of new CND groups was passed by CND Conference. West Midlands CND WMCND has had another active year, with our Hiroshima commemoration activities attracting particular support. The Hiroshima exhibition was in Birmingham Cathedral for a fortnight and about 60 people attended the vigil on 6th August in the Cathedral Churchyard. It was covered by Central TV and local press, including an article by Jenny Maxwell in the Birmingham Post. There were exhibitions in Hereford, Malvern and Rugby, and vigils in Malvern and Redditch. In November, a street poll carried out in Birmingham, with questions about UK security based on those of the Greenpeace poll, revealed large majorities against replacing Trident, first use and use against countries without nuclear weapons. Hereford Peace Council has also received excellent press coverage. In March Bruce Kent spent a day at its stall to publicise the NPT Review Conference, and did several joint interviews with the Bishop of Hereford. In the autumn, two local papers reported on the churches taking part in Bells Ring for Justice not

Knocking on Heavens Door Conference organised by Yorkshire CND

West Midlands CND Hiroshima Day vigil at Birmingham Cathedral

Vengeance. Prior to the NPT, Malvern collected hundreds of signatures for the World Court Project declarations. In 2005 we had stalls at local summer fairs, and hosted Bruce Gagnon in Coventry in October, as part of Coventry Peace Month. Our parliamentary team monitors Hansard, suggesting parliamentary questions, many of which Birmingham MP, Lynne Jones, has asked. They have written numerous letters to the Birmingham Post; Allan Tucker, in Oswestry, is a regular correspondent on nuclear matters to the Shropshire Star. Administratively, the region has had an upheaval, with Jennys removal to Herefordshire. She retired after 20 years as Treasurer. Nasima Ali has taken over both as Treasurer and as office overseer. Jenny continues to write the Monthly Mailing and administer the national letter-writers. Fortunately, we have had several new office volunteers during the year.

Yorkshire CND At the beginning of the year Yorkshire CND members, as CND representatives on the Missile Defence Working Group, discussed concerns about missile defence with the Ministry of Defence and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. In the spring we hosted Bruce Kent as part of CNDs successful Abolition Now! tour. We also attended the Global Network Conference, Full Spectrum Resistance, in New York. In May we produced an election briefing on Missile Defence and Star Wars and worked with CND Vice-Chair Jeremy Corbyn MP to table an Early Day Motion on weapons in space. In the summer we attended the Faslane blockade and also joined the Campaign for the Accountability of American Bases (CAAB) at Menwith Hill for their Independence from America Day protest. Our convenor, Dave Webb, made a presentation on Some Aspects of Space Security at the US Union of Concerned Scientists International Summer Symposium at Princeton University in New Jersey. Later in August Yorkshire campaigners joined in the Aldermaston blockade, and in September we travelled down to London to join in the March for Peace and Liberty. Knocking on Heavens Door was our international conference on space security for Keep Space for Peace Week in October. This provided fresh information and news from the US, the European Parliament and the UN. Dave Knight joined Bruce Gagnon of the Global Network on a speaking tour of Britain. It concluded with Yorkshire CND members joining CAAB for a demonstration at Menwith Hill and a peace camp at the Fylingdales base. Sylvia Boyes led a tree planting ceremony to remember Race Newton, a long-term CND supporter. We ran a number of events in Leeds and Bradford as part of the Together for Peace festival, including a gig in Leeds and a public meeting with Rahul Mahajan, longtime activist, currently serving on the Steering Committee of the US organisation United for Peace and Justice, and author of www.empirenotes.org 13

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CND specialist sections Christian CND Christian CND has had an eventful year with some very good things to report. Our educational work has been greatly helped by charity funding. As a result we were able to hold a fourth Treaties Day School in London last November. The education pack for churches is still being requested and we keep it updated. There are plans to produce a separate pack for use in schools in the coming year. The nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty has been our main campaigning focus for the past five years leading up to the Review Conference in New York last May. We have run four Treaties Day Schools and various workshops, lobbied parliament, embassies and Synods and produced many papers and leaflets. There have been campaigns involving inter-faith prayers, letter writing and petitions. In May our delegation went to New York to join with other NGOs from around the world and we had a major hand in organising the daily devotions. There were some worthwhile achievements to report and these are recorded in our new booklet as well as in Liz Griffiths excellent report (both now available from our office). The Review Conference itself was disappointing as we had hoped for some real progress to be made on nuclear disarmament, but we press on. Concerning future plans, much thought is being given to the future focus of our post-NPT Conference campaigning. A stimulating open meeting was held in Oxford last June to discuss this and generate ideas. Probably the main issue that will concern all peace groups in the coming days will be the Trident system and its likely replacement, linked to developments at Aldermaston. Perhaps Christian CNDs best contribution is to explore on an inter-faith basis the theological issues involved and we have decided to hold a Theology Day School on 25th February 2006 at St Johns College, Oxford. For more details and to register call 020 7700 4200 or email: christians@cnduk.org web 14

International Advisory Group Scrapping Trident and now preventing Trident replacement is our number one campaigning objective. Trident itself is of course a part of the US nuclear empire and the US drive for full spectrum dominance which is why we have tried to link with and support US campaigners as much as we can. CND was very well represented at the NPT Review Conference in New York where we met with campaigners from across the world and gained much valuable press coverage. Our second priority is weapons in space and, of course, through Dave Knight and Dave Webb and Yorkshire CND we support the Global Network Against Nuclear Power and Weapons in Space. Our third priority is a nuclear free Europe and for NATO to be disbanded, including the closure of NATO nucleararmed bases. To this end, GM&D CND, on behalf of CND, organised the successful international Nuclear Free Europe conference in March with the French Mouvement de la Paix. In October, Rae Street gave a paper at the Nuclear Free Europe workshop in Brussels organised by the European Network for Peace and Human Rights, and Kate Hudson spoke at Mouvement de la Paixs national congress in November. We also passed the Resolution at National Conference linking the resisters across Europe to US nuclear armed bases. Our fourth priority is opposition to the

nuclear power industry. We have links here with French and German and US groups, and we make our position clear through global cooperation. Working in a wider global context, we have joined platforms where views are shared on policies on Iraq and the Middle East region. At joint meetings with the Stop the War Coalition, we were able to introduce and make relevant CND issues for a broad cross section of communities in Britain. In 2005 we helped organise, with the Palestine Solidarity Campaign and the Free Vanunu Campaign, a joint lobby of Parliament on Israeli weapons of mass destruction. This was well attended and supported by new MPs. Our links with Japan grow ever stronger. At the International Conference of A & H bombs in Japan the CND team gave major papers and were all able to discuss issues with anti nuclear weapons campaigners from across the world. Labour CND The Labour CND year started with a New Years social at a wine bar in Kings Cross, which was well attended by peace activists and their friends. After that, we got down to some serious campaigning in support of sympathetic candidates for the General Election in May. Our Conference and AGM in June focused on the policies a Labour Government should adopt in its third term on civil liberties, foreign affairs and

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defence. Invited speakers included Douglas Jewell from Liberty, Kate Hudson, Jeremy Corbyn MP, and Ann Black from Labours National Executive Committee. LCND had a high profile at the Labour Party Conference in September, not only because of the extremely valuable publicity that Walter Wolfgang was able to attract to peace and civil liberties issues, but also because of our success on the Labour fringe. The CND stall was well stocked and very popular with Conference delegates. The September LCND newsletter was widely distributed and followed up in October and December with two further editions. The LCND fringe meeting, jointly organised with CND and Labour Action for Peace, was packed, and heard from an impressive line-up of speakers, including Tony Benn, Alice Mahon, Michael Meacher MP, Jeremy Corbyn MP, and Iraqi novelist Haifa Zangana. Sadly, we were less successful on the Conference floor but not for want of trying. Our model resolutions, on Trident replacement and on Iraq, and also an emergency resolution from Halifax Labour Party on preparations to bring the troops home from Basra, were all ruled out of order. Iraq was not chosen for debate in the priorities ballot, and there was little mention of nuclear issues. LCND has a committed and determined membership. In the coming year we plan to maintain our programme of meetings and lobbying. We are intent on influencing opinion within the Party and the Government. Student CND Student CND has had another busy year holding meetings and stalls on campuses, being involved in protests and non-violent direct action; and producing and distributing leaflets, posters, and other materials specifically aimed at raising awareness amongst students and getting them involved. Student CND made the Make Poverty History protests in July a priority because it was an excellent way for CND to get its message across to the thousands of young people and students engaged in the debt and trade justice movement. Thousands of Student CND briefings

were circulated focusing on the billions squandered on weapons of mass destruction by the G8, whilst global poverty continues. We participated in the successful Faslane Blockade which closed the base for the day. Student CND activists also made their way to Gleneagles to take part in the demonstrations. As well as campaigning at the Faslane Trident base we have been increasing awareness of the potential replacement of Trident at freshers fairs, speaker meetings, and through motions. NUS has joined the campaign after supporting a Student CND motion opposing Trident replacement. We are hoping this will strengthen our campaigning in the coming year and will be holding debates on the issue in student unions. To commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the atomic bombing of Japan and raise awareness about the continuing danger of nuclear weapons, a Hiroshima Peace Museum exhibition was held at Sheffield University and at the National Union of Students Annual Conference in April. We also jointly organised one of the largest fringe meetings of the conference, calling for students to work for peace. Student CND has remained active in the wider anti-war movement, continuing to work closely with other groups such as Student Stop the War Coalition and the Federation of Student Islamic Societies. We have created awareness about the link between the pre-emptive war on Iraq, increasing US aggression and the development of National Missile Defence (NMD) and the threat of new nuclear weapons. Students have been affected by attacks on civil liberties and the right to protest, and Student CND has supported the George Fox Six at Lancaster University who were convicted of trespass after they had protested at a meeting on campus attended by arms manufacturers. Youth & Student CND 2005 has been an active year for Youth & Student CND. As well as continuing our support for local groups for example providing speakers for meetings and help over producing local leaflets we have

participated in events in this country and abroad. In the year that marked 60 years since the use of the A-bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it was crucial to our campaigning to make links between the destruction and devastation caused in 1945, and the current political plan to replace Trident. A Y&S CND representative attended the peace conference in Hiroshima and has since spoken at several local meetings. International links were made at the World Festival of Youth and Students, which took place in Caracas, Venezuela in August 2005. One of the main festival themes was peace and nuclear disarmament and positive links were made with other peace organisations from across the world. Mobile campaigning continues to be an important activity for us. As well as being a major source of income, its also a chance for us to get the arguments for nuclear disarmament out to a large number of young people. In 2005, volunteers for Y&S CND staffed lockups and bars at several festivals, displaying and distributing Y&S CND and CND literature. The campaign against Trident and Trident replacement was our major focus in the latter half of 2005 and we launched our national campaign with demonstrations, stalls and public meetings in several areas. These have involved the support of many other local peace groups as well as drawing in local trades councils, constituency branches of political parties, and faith groups. We will continue this work into 2006 to ensure that nuclear weapons remain on the public agenda and that the campaign against Trident replacement is as broad and effective as possible. Autonomous campaigns Menwith Hill Womens Peace Camp The permanent womens peace camp at Menwith Hill was started up again on the weekend of the 10th December 2005. Please do come and support us! It is vital that we raise more awareness about this secret US base: the largest electronic monitoring station in the world, which would have a crucial role in any global 15

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conflict and is an integral part of plans for a US missile defence system. Our next important date will be in 2007, and we will be spending some time organising and mobilising to remember the 25th Anniversary of the founding of Greenham Common Womens Peace Camp. The 5th September 1981 was the actual date when the Greenham camp began with only a very small number of women. Most significantly, on 12th December 1982, 30,000 women surrounded the base and put womens protest right out there on the world stage in protest against the decision that the UK would have US cruise missiles on its soil. At Menwith, on 12th December 2007, we hope to create a major international focus with a huge womens peace event. Nukewatch More power to the protesters elbows. Dedication has always been the hallmark of Nukewatch up and down the country, but night shift now has to be added to their skills. In 2005 the MoD began a Continuous Running convoy regime, with double crews and no overnight stops. Nukewatchers quickly adapted to working long hours on a relay basis through several days and nights to be able to confirm the level of British nuclear weapons activity on our roads. Information is circulated by a number of NGOs, particularly the NFLA who inform their councillors of convoy risks in their area. This year there were Continuous Running convoy movements loaded with Trident warheads in April, May, July and November, with a major training run in January, and two week-long exercises in East Anglia in June and October. Nukewatch was able to track two Special Nuclear Materials cargo transfers, between AWE Aldermaston and the USA, via RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire, after a tip-off via CND. RAF Brize Norton is the base normally used, but it was closed for runway repairs. A question raised in Parliament brought an acknowledgment from government minister Adam Ingram that these nuclear exchanges go by air. In April, good press coverage was achieved by a Nukewatchers complaint 16

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of a Road Traffic Offence when a convoy used a weight-restricted road near Stirling. Stirling Council followed up the complaint and a question was raised in the Scottish Parliament. Oxford City Council used Nukewatch evidence to protest to the MoD about nuclear weapons convoys coming through their City. A full-page article and supportive editorial in the Oxford Mail concluded, more power to the protesters elbows. Please support us with your eyes and elbows. An Information Pack is available from Jane: tp2000@gn.apc.org or 0845 4588367 and a Spotters Guide to keep in your car is available from Di: di@nuclearinfo.org or 02380 554434. See http://www.nukewatchscotland.org.uk for more information.

Trident Ploughshares In May, in the run-up to our disarmament camp at Devonport (where the Trident subs are refitted), the Tamarians affinity group occupied Drakes Island in the Tamar estuary, declaring it nuclear-free in contrast to the city of Plymouth, and gaining much media attention. During the camp itself a blockade of the naval base saw the Albert Gate closed for three hours. In July, along with CND and Scottish CND, as part of the G8 resistance, we facilitated the biggest blockade in recent years of Faslane naval base. We planned for our annual Coulport camp to be a part of the recovery process after G8 exertions, but there was still time to give the Coulport and Faslane bases some attention, including redecoration with plenty of anti-Trident slogans and a disruptive blockade. Trident Ploughshares pledgers have been actively involved in the Block the Builders campaign at Aldermaston, notably at the blockade on 5th May. We also targeted the Trident supply chain. In October there was a very successful action with Trident Ploughshares and East Midlands CND focusing on the Rolls Royce Raynesway factory in Derby which makes new fuel plates for Trident submarine reactors as part of the refit process. The weekend activities, including the blockade and demonstration at the factory gate, really heightened local awareness of what Rolls Royce is involved with. In September two protestors scaled a communications mast at a military fuel storage and distribution centre at Padworth Common which supplies Aldermaston with fuel. The Scottish Parliament did not get left out. In March the street outside parliament was blocked by a 25-foot model Trident submarine a very effective and lively form of lobbying. One of the 17-strong crew was Rosie Kane MSP. On the international scene, Trident Ploughshares activists were part of Bomspotting XL, a mass inspection of US nuclear weapon bases in Belgium. Over 500 people were arrested. This is only the barest essence of an action-packed year. Fuller story at http://www.tridentploughshares.org/article 1217

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hank you to all members who made donations to CND in 2005. Your continued support is the main reason we can keep up the pressure on the government to create a nuclear-free Britain. The response to our appeal to fund a fullpage advert in the Independent to mark the 60th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima was so good that we were able to run it in the Guardian as well. Thanks to everyone who supported this appeal or responded to our other appeals, or who made a regular donation by standing order. CND again had a high-profile at the Glastonbury festival, with Chair Kate Hudson speaking from the Pyramid Stage. CND waterproof ponchos sold out within an hour of the great downpour which hit this years festival, but by the end of the weekend it had dried out enough for festival-goers to relax on the grass and read the special issue of Campaign while waiting for their favourite band to come on. We are very grateful to Ex-Services CND for funding this extra edition and for their support throughout the year. Another overwhelming success was the sold out Blues not Bombs Jazz Cruise on the Thames organised by CND Council member Rebecca Morden in May to raise funds to send a young CND member to Japan for the commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Continuing the musical theme, we are grateful to Musicians Against Nuclear Arms for their donation of funds raised at their regular Concerts for Peace. During 2005 we were the beneficiaries of the generosity of a number of CND members who had remembered CND in their wills. It is always sad to receive legacy income, but we are proud that we are able to remember the commitment of these members and to continue campaigning on issues that were so important to them. If you would like to remember CND in your will, please contact Jon in the office on 020 7700 2393.

CND merchandise for sale!

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CND Conference 2006

Hosted by Yorkshire CND October 14th & 15th at Bradford University. Council nomination deadline Wednesday 12th July Please supply contact details for your nominee. The proposer/s of nominees will be published. Resolution deadline Monday 17th July Groups will receive a mailing in early April and all members will receive full details in the summer edition of Campaign.

OddHero.com produced a limited edition T-shirt to mark the 60th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, with a donation to CND for every copy sold. You can still order the Sun had fallen out of the sky t-shirt from www.oddhero.com

Merchandise We are re-launching our online shop to make it easier to use. We are also developing a new range of merchandise to tie in with our current campaigns; so please visit the website or look out for the order form in Campaign to see the latest T-shirts, badges and other materials. Dont forget that CND groups can order Sale or Return to stock up their stalls. 17

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hroughout the year there has been a steady increase in our membership; new membership peaked in August following the 60th Anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. To commemorate this and highlight the threat which all nuclear weapons still pose, CND placed full page statements in The Independent and Guardian signed by around 1,000 individuals, groups, trade unions and celebrity supporters. The statements generated a huge amount of interest in the issue and boosted our membership rates significantly in August and the following months. Thank you to all who contributed towards the cost of this. Please carry on checking the website and Campaign magazine as it may be something we will do again in the future. Into 2006 CND is again at the heart of British politics. The campaign against Trident replacement has gained huge support in an environment in which the war in Iraq has prompted debate over armed conflict and new laws have been introduced which threaten civil liberties and the right to protest. We must ensure that if people are concerned about these issues and those surrounding nuclear power and waste, missile defence and NATO, that they know and understand CND's position and decide to join us. Please do all you can to spread the word in your area. The size of our membership directly affects the degree and effectiveness of our campaigning. We are seeing many former members coming back into membership. This is very positive and reflects our continuing high profile and connection with issues that are important to people given the current political climate. More and more people are becoming involved in nationwide debates and these often have roots in local issues. If you are not currently involved with a CND group in your local area please check to see if there is one. If not, we would be delighted to assist if you would like to set one up. 18 CND Groups If you are already involved in a group, we would like to hear from you regarding the area (by postcode if possible) which your group covers and details of your groups email contact. We inform new members of groups in their area via the new members' pack but we hope to become more pro-active in contacting groups with details of new members. The aim is to enable groups to improve communication and ensure that all members are aware of local CND activities. If you are a CND company member and also a member of a local group, please do let us know. Since 1998 CND has been a limited company. However CND membership does not automatically mean you are a company member you will need to sign a company membership agreement. The voting rights of groups attending the Annual Conference are determined by the number of company members they have, so to ensure that our records are complete it is useful to know which company members are also members of local groups. If you are unsure, or want to register your membership of a group, send an email to membership@cnduk.org or contact us by phone or post. Company membership forms are available from the website. Company members are asked merely to agree to pay 1 should CND wind up for any reason. Website This year the majority of our new members have joined using the CND website. The easy-to-use layout allows users to select from a range of membership types and payment methods. Our website is www.cnduk.org and if you have not yet visited it, please do have a look! Also, if you are able to create a link from another website or add the address to the bottom of your emails please do so; it is a great source of information covering a range of related issues. Standing Orders For all those who do not currently do so, we would ask that you consider paying for your membership by standing order. Standing orders save us a great deal of money and are also a convenient way for you to pay your membership or make regular donations. They also allow you to spread the cost of your membership throughout the year paying either monthly, quarterly or annually. There is a form on the website you can

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...continued from previous page download or you can contact the membership department and we would be happy to answer any questions and send you a printed copy of the form. We would ask that all standing order members review their payment regularly to ensure that they are still paying the correct amount for their situation. Membership rates have not increased for many years and we instead ask members to add a voluntary donation to their regular payments where possible. The annual rates of membership are: 26 Household 21 Waged individual 12 Part/Low waged individual 8 Pensioner individual 8 Unwaged individual 16 Pensioner household 16 Unwaged household 6 Student individual (in post-16 education) 6 Youth (25 years and under) Overseas members are subject to a 2 surcharge Volunteers A huge thank you again to our tireless volunteers who lend their time and skills to the Membership department. Without their help, the department would not be able to plan ahead and complete most of the tasks we are currently able to undertake. To our regular volunteers, Dave Esbester and Luba Mumford a big thank you for ensuring that payments are processed accurately and quickly, requests are dealt with and the membership database is accurate and up to date. Also thanks to Stuart Minto, Iain Triggs, Pat Arrowsmith, Pat Allen, Dorothea Baker, Jean Taylor and all our invaluable volunteers, who often help with Membership and Fundraising work, for their generosity of time and energy. Raise money for CND through The Phone Co-Op See the advert on the back of the mail sheet to learn how you can reduce your phone bill and raise money for CND by changing to The Phone Co-Op. News by email If you have an email address youd like us to contact you on, then please let us know by emailing membership@cnduk.org. Were working to increase our use of email and improve our communications with our members, so we need to make sure that we have as many up-to-date email addresses as possible. If you want to be the first to hear the latest news about CND, then you can sign up to our email bulletin on the home page of our website www.cnduk.org. Encourage a friend to join CND CNDs members are the heart of our campaign. The more members we have the more we can do and the stronger our voice will be when we lobby decisionmakers. Do you have friends or relatives you think might want to join CND? Please use the form on the inside front cover or call Jon on 020 7700 2393 if you would like us to send you some recruitment leaflets. Visibility Other ways in which you can help get the CND message across are by wearing a badge or T-shirt, displaying a car sticker, or sticking a poster in your window. They can be ordered by phone or online. Visit www.cnduk.org to purchase from our new online shop. Get involved locally There are many CND groups across the country playing a fundamental part in CNDs campaigning. Check page 24 to find out if there is a group in your area. If there isnt one nearby, think about joining with some friends or like-minded people and setting up your own group. Please contact the office for our information pack on setting up a new group. If youre a student, why not set up a student CND group in your university? This is a very effective way of campaigning, and relatively easy to do. For more information, contact Student CND, c/o the National Office. Campaign Campaign is CNDs magazine especially for activists. Its produced three times a year, with the Summer issue going to all members. This is essential reading and an easy way of keeping up to date with all our news and activities. Let us know if you want to be added to the mailing list to receive Campaign throughout the year. Lobby Lobbying your MP gives CNDs central lobbying work extra credibility and the weight that will help us to succeed. Lobby, our parliamentary newsletter, gives background information on the politics of nuclear disarmament and provides model letters for you to adapt for your own use. Letter-writing Writing to local newspapers, or calling TV or radio phone-ins are easy and effective ways to get nuclear disarmament into the news. If you feel any local media coverage is biased then call or write to those responsible all complaints are logged and passed on. You can also join CNDs letter writing team, see page 5 for more information, and to get involved contact Katy, SystemsOfficer@cnduk.org, or ring the office on 020 7700 2393, indicating whether you want to receive information by e-mail or post. Legacy Remembering CND in your will helps us to plan for the future. Please call Jon on 020 7700 0293 to request A Legacy for Humankind, our booklet which outlines how to make a will or change an existing one.

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any campaigning plans and events are already in hand, but these will be supplemented by other initiatives and responses to national and international events as they occur. Please contact your local group, or regional representative (listed on the following pages) if you would like to get more involved. You can also join our activists email list to receive regular information and details of events contact the national office to be included. Also remember to check out the Events Diary on our website www.cnduk.org
No Trident Replacement Our key focus in the year ahead will be working to prevent a decision being made to replace the Trident nuclear weapons system. The Defence Select Committee has now announced it will hold an enquiry into The Future of the Strategic Nuclear Deterrent and CND will be making its own submission in March. Our campaigning pack is available by post or from the website. It contains all the information you need including briefings, postcards and leaflets to lobby your MP, write to the local press, hold a public meeting, and organise a street stall. The petition is crucial in the first part of the year please get signatures back to the national office by the end of March, so that we can hand them in at Easter. Bruce Kent will come and work with you on a local stall, and Kate Hudson, or another officer, would be happy to come and speak at local meetings. You only need ask! New campaigning materials will be produced throughout the year and you will be informed about them by email, Campaign, or through your local group. End the occupation of Iraq: Dont Attack Iran National Demonstration, London 18th March Together with Stop the War Coalition and the Muslim Association of Britain, CND is mobilising for this demonstration on the third anniversary of the attack on Iraq. We are calling for an end to the occupation of Iraq, and opposing an attack on Iran. Transport will be organised from around the country, so please contact local groups for details. 20 Star Wars and weapons in space Yorkshire CND is taking a look, on behalf of CND nationally, at The Other Side of Star Wars Spying and Surveillance. We plan to organise a Parliamentary meeting as part of Keep Space for Peace week (1st8th Oct ) and an event with European MEPs about the Galileo project launched in December 2005, with an EU budget of over 650 Million. This project is claimed to be solely for civilian use, however there is much speculation that it may become a European competitor to the US Missile Defence system. The No Star Wars campaign will also include events at Star Wars bases Menwith Hill and Fylingdales. Nuclear power Following a CND annual conference decision in October 2005, we are opposing any plans to build new nuclear power stations and are arguing that nuclear power is not the answer to climate change. A new briefing will be forthcoming early this year, and we aim to tie the issue to events around the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, with the possibility of a public meeting in Parliament. European Social Forum, Athens 4th-7th May This year, we are organising a number of sessions at the ESF in Athens, along with Le Mouvement de la Paix and other European campaigning groups. Subjects will include: Opposing War and Nuclear Weapons; Kick NATO out of Europe; For a Culture of Peace in Europe; End Foreign Military Bases. We are also hoping to have a stall there, so if anyone is planning to attend and would like to help out, please get in touch with us at the national office. Local elections: 4th May Local elections will be taking place across England and Wales in May. This can be an opportunity to lobby local councillors about our issues, especially if you live in the vicinity of any base or nuclear site.

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Enclosed with the Annual Review you will find two No Trident Replacement petitions and a postcard. 10 Signature Challenge! Please pass one of the petitions on to a friend and, with the other, we challenge you to get the signatures of at least 10 other people, so we can present over 320,000 signatures to Tony Blair at Easter. Send the postcard to your MP Please send the enclosed interactive postcard to your MP to let him/her know what you would rather 25 billion be spent on. You can find out who your MP is at your local library or town hall, by phoning the House of Commons Information Office on 020 7219 4272, or enter your postcode at the website: www.locata.co.uk/commons/ Please do send us a copy of any replies you receive back from your MP.

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Block the Builders Building work is continuing at Aldermaston, preparing for the development of a new generation of nuclear weapons. Block the Builders, an initiative by the Aldermaston Womens Peace Camp, organises actions at Aldermaston and we will be actively supporting these events. For details see www.aldermaston.net or contact AWPC on 07969 739 812. Faslane 365 CND is supporting an initiative to mount a continuous blockade of the Faslane naval base, which houses Trident. The initial goal is to cover 100 days, starting on 1st October. CND will announce its time slot for participation in the near future. Please help if you can. Blockaders and supporters are welcome. Trade unions We are working to build opposition to Trident Replacement within the unions and have a model resolution available for use in your local branches, together with the new CND-Trade Union Link bulletin. We urge use of the petition in union branches. This year we are also aiming for greater participation at union conferences and hope to have an attendance at NUS, NUT, CWU, GMB, UNISON and others, and at the TUC conference in September. If you are able to help us out on a stall, please call the CND national office. Festivals and Conferences We are also planning attendance at a number of summer festivals this year, to get our message over as widely as possible. We will participate at the annual Labour Party conference and possibly other party conferences too. CND will also be represented at the World Peace Forum in Vancouver. Again, if you are able to help us out in a voluntary capacity at these events, we would be very grateful. Please let us know if you can. Our own annual conference will be in Bradford in October.

CND Personnel
Officers Chair: Kate Hudson Vice-Chairs: Jeremy Corbyn MP, Sophie Bolt, Rae Street Treasurer: Linda Hugl CND National Council Directly Elected Pat Allen, Pat Arrowsmith, Jenny Clegg, Tom Cuthbert, Sue Davis, Monica Frisch, Joan Horrocks, Joy Hurcombe, Liz Hutchins, Peter Leary, Gawain Little, Caroline Lucas MEP, Alice Mahon, Rebecca Morden, Pat Sanchez, Carol Turner; (Reserves) John Holmes and Tim Wardle Nations, Regions and Areas CND Cymru: John Cox, Jill Stallard; Scottish CND: Adam Beese, Mark Gallagher, Jim Taggart; East Midlands: Richard Johnson London Region: Jim Addington, Jim Brann, Vijay Mehta; Northern Region: Chris Prettyman; North West Region: Joan Abrams, Pauline Phillips, Gina Shaw; Southern Region: Anna Chaplin, Beryl Davidson, Michael Waugh; South East Region: Anna Rehin, Ailsa Johnson, Pam Brivio; South West Region: Geri Laithwaite, Peter Le Mare, Tom Milburn; West Midlands CND: Iain Naughton, Joe Sturge; Yorkshire CND: Miriam Moss, Dave Webb. Specialist Sections Christian CND: Bob Russell Labour CND: Ruth Clarke Student CND: George Woods Youth and Student CND: Oliver Little, Helen Robertson, Joanne Stevenson. Vice-Presidents Tony Benn Janet Bloomfield John Cox Joan Horrocks Bruce Kent Dave Knight Alistair Mackie Paul Oestreicher Walter Wolfgang Staff and volunteers Staff at Holloway Road Sam Akaki: Parliamentary Officer Joy Annegarn: Membership, Finance Genia Browning: Office Manager Ben Folley: Campaigns Worker Sheila Jones: Archivist Sue Longbottom: Print and website Designer Jon Nott: Fundraising and Marketing Eve Ponting: Finance and Network Manager Dawn Rothwell: Campaigns Research and Information Officer Ruth Tanner: Press Officer, (replaced during 2006 by Rick Wakeman) Katy West: Membership and Database Systems Officer Volunteers at Holloway Road Stuart Minto, Pat Allen, Catherine Allen, Pat Arrowsmith, Dorothea Baker, Adam Bloom, Jim Brann, Marco Cosimiro, Pam Cowan, Sue Davis, Peter Eldridge, Dave Esbester, Sarah Joyce, Eileen Maclean, Ana Mates, Anne Meuter, Becca Morden, Luba Mumford, Rosemary Rogers, Ellen Sheffield, Stuart Stephenson, Jean Taylor, Marjorie Trevor, Ian Triggs, Tony Watkins, Muriel Woods. Interns Dace Ruza, Babette Whittaker, Calvin DSouza, Zoznan Asphana National and regional staff CND Cymru: Jill Stallard (volunteer) Scottish CND: John Ainslie, Phill Jones Yorkshire CND: Neil Kingsnorth, Denise Craghill (joined by Sarah Cartin during 2005) Greater Manchester CND: Jacqui Darbyshire, Clare Frisby (joined by Cath Bann and Doug Weir during 2006) London Region CND: David Polden Specialist sections Christian CND: Claire Poyner (parttime). Other specialist sections are run by volunteers from home. Thanks go to all volunteers who staff offices and shops all over the country.

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2004 Audited Accounts hese were presented in the summer issue of Campaign but are also summarised here; detailed accounts are available on request to the CND office and are on the website. In 2004, income was 490,000 and expenditure was 418,000, creating an overall surplus of 72,000, much better than predicted. Income was higher than expected because of a legacy of 50,000 and increased donations and appeals income. Expenditure was less than predicted due to careful expenditure by CND staff and budget holders. Both income and expenditure were decreased compared to 2003 because of our anti war activities in that year. Membership subscription income fell in 2004 compared to 2003, as those members who joined during our anti-war activity were less inclined to renew. Expenditure also decreased compared to 2003 as difficult decisions were made to reduce national and regional staffing as well as cut grants to all parts of the campaign. Most of the years surplus was transferred to the campaigning reserve, which now stands at 139,000. The general reserve stands at 110,000, and the fixed asset reserve at 30,000. The value of CNDs ethical investments increased by 5,000 but is still 5,000 short of the initial value of those investments. They are managed by Co. Funds via Ethical Investors Group and are spread over four funds:

they have been audited. The 2005 budget was set at a time of improved finances but budget requests could still not be met in full. However, early in 2005, CND was notified of several large legacies. Council took the decision to immediately increase staffing in the national office and to investigate another post based regionally. The campaigns budget was increased by 50% and funds were used to set up a CND charitable arm as soon as possible, to improve the longer-term financial outlook. 2006 Budget The 2006 budget has been set and Council was able to approve expenditure greater than predicted income, due to the legacies received in 2005. It is important to balance spending funds too quickly and having nothing in reserve with spending funds too

slowly so that no impact is made. Staffing has been temporarily increased over the next 12 months and campaigning budgets increased. Provision was also made for modest staff pension contributions. The Nuclear Education Trust should gain charitable status in 2006 and will fund CNDs educational work. Despite improved finances, the No Trident Replacement campaign will require significant resources and increasing our income is still essential. Please be as generous as possible when you receive an appeal from CND or even better make a regular donation and even better still help us recruit more new members! Many thanks to CND staff, particularly Eve Ponting, members of the Admin and Finance Group, and Simon Erskine, our auditor, for their work.

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