Oxford Humanists will be attending the Remembrance Sunday service in 2025. Please join us on the day to pay respect to the fallen and to show your support for the humanist voice. 

As part of the service, these words will be spoken by Diana Naumann representing Oxford Humanists: 

On Remembrance Day, it’s impossible not to feel a sense of sadness at the wasteful deaths of so many. Humanists believe that this is the only life we have, so we remember all those who have died as the result of conflict. Those who were not religious as well as those with a faith. We remember each as an irreplaceable individual reflecting on the impact their deaths will have had on those who knew and loved them. For those left bereaved by war, no medals or dispatches can ever replace the void their loved one leaves. The empty places at the table around the world. We remember them.

(written by Deborah Hooper of Humanists UK)

General Information about the Event organised by Oxford City, from The Oxford Magazine:

"Remembrance Sunday takes place on the second Sunday in November and honours those who have made the ultimate sacrifice to secure and protect our freedom. The Lord Mayor of Oxford, in partnership with the Oxford City branch of the Royal British Legion, will host a Remembrance Sunday Service at the War Memorial in St Giles’.

Military units, organisations and community groups will gather for 10.00am at the junction of Beaumont Street and St Giles’. They will then march up St Giles’ from 10.30am and be followed by the civic procession that will depart from St John’s College at 10.40am.

The service will start at 10.45am, with a two-minute silence at 11.00am."