Delays to Pagan Dawn for Samhain

For reasons beyond our control there has been a delay in the distribution of the Samhain edition of Pagan Dawn. We are currently hoping, but not guaranteeing, to get it to as many of you as possible by the weekend.

Big Green Competition

EXCITING NEWS for all you clever people For the BIG GREEN week, we are running a BIG GREEN competition. We would like you to make something using materials that you would normally throw away.  So can you make a piece of artwork using scrap materials, old plastic, paper or card.  A mosaic from your broken … Read more

Historic UN Resolution Passes!

Some time ago, Professor Ronald Hutton emailed me asking if we at the Pagan Federation could support the efforts of WHRIN (The Witchcraft and Human Rights Information Network) in their attempts to get the UN to pass a resolution on Harmful Practices: Accusations of Witchcraft and Ritual Attacks (HPAWRA). He sent me a bundle of … Read more

Your opinions matter!

Last year, the main committee set up a sub-committee to investigate how we communicated with people and organisations outside of the Pagan Federation. You can read the blog I wrote about it here. The work is progressing and at Beltane we launched a survey for both members and non-members to gain insight into how our … Read more

Foraging

Hi, Sorry it’s been awhile, but unfortunately I have been ill. I want to talk about foraging as there has been a lot of talk about it on social media and various blogs.  There are several things you need to remember if you do want to give it a go.  Firstly and most importantly is … Read more

A talk about Pagan Discrimination

This talk was originally given to Glasgow Interfaith’s online event “Anti-Pagan Prejudice: the Untold Story” on Sunday 18th April 2021 Hello everyone, I’ve been invited here to today to speak with you about Pagan discrimination – a subject that is very close to my heart as a Pagan myself, having faced discrimination because of my … Read more

Census 2021

In just two short days the National Census is taking place. A few weeks ago, we published a blog asking those who identify as Pagan to state exactly and simply that when they reached question 16 rather than listing complicated terms that the census office is unlikely to recognise or understand. Today I want to … Read more

On the subject of litter…..

I was chatting to someone in the PF a few days ago.  They suggested once lockdown is over, we arrange a few litter picks perhaps in local beauty spots or beaches.  This made me think, most of us are taking a daily walk for exercise, some with pets some without.  If everyone picked up just … Read more