In England SACRE stands for ‘Standing Advisory Council on Religious Education’. In Wales the SAC is the ‘Standing Advisory Council on Religion, Values and Ethics’. Every local authority in England and Wales has one of these committees. Their members advise on what school pupils should study in religious education lessons. But all too often, there is no-one in these groups to represent a humanist viewpoint, and consequently many young people never have the opportunity to learn about humanism.
You can make a difference here! If you’re willing to join your local SACRE/SAC you’ll be helping to ensure our young people are not prevented from learning that there are alternatives to organised religion as a way of living your life.
Does your local authority have a humanist representative on its SACRE/SAC? Check below to find out, and if it doesn’t why not consider becoming one?
If we are looking for a SACRE/SAC rep in your area (or in an area nearby), and you would like to volunteer, then please get in touch with us via sacres@humanism.org.uk. Please contact us before contacting the SACRE/SAC as sometimes places will have been filled recently though our map might not have been updated yet.
For more information about the role of SACRE/SAC rep, click here.
If you are a SACRE/SAC rep and we’ve not identified that on the map, please get in touch via sacres@humanism.org.uk.
| SACRE | Humanist Rep? | What you can do! |
|---|---|---|
| Barking and Dagenham SACRE | YES | |
| Barnet SACRE | NO | Volunteer for Us! |
| Barnsley SACRE | YES | |
| Bath and North East Somerset SACRE | NO | Volunteer for Us! |
| Bedford SACRE | YES | |
| Bexley SACRE | NO | Volunteer for Us! |
| Birmingham SACRE | YES | |
| Blackburn with Darwen SACRE | NO | Volunteer for Us! |
| Blackpool SACRE | YES | |
| Bolton SACRE | YES | |
| Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole SACRE | YES | |
| Bracknell Forest SACRE | YES | |
| Bradford SACRE | YES | |
| Brent SACRE | YES | |
| Brighton and Hove SACRE | YES | |
| Bristol SACRE | YES | |
| Bromley SACRE | YES | |
| Buckinghamshire SACRE | YES | |
| Bury SACRE | APPLIED | |
| Calderdale SACRE | YES | |
| Cambridgeshire SACRE | YES | |
| Camden SACRE | YES | |
| Central Bedfordshire SACRE | NO | Volunteer for Us! |
| Cheshire East SACRE | YES | |
| Cheshire West and Chester SACRE | YES | |
| Cornwall SACRE | YES | |
| Coventry SACRE | NO | Volunteer for Us! |
| Croydon SACRE | YES | |
| Cumbria SACRE | YES | |
| Darlington SACRE | YES | |
| Derby SACRE | YES | |
| Derbyshire SACRE | YES | |
| Devon SACRE | YES | |
| Doncaster SACRE | YES | |
| Dorset SACRE | YES | |
| Dudley SACRE | NO | Volunteer for Us! |
| Durham SACRE | YES | |
| Ealing SACRE | YES | |
| East Riding of Yorkshire SACRE | YES | |
| East Sussex SACRE | NO | Volunteer for Us! |
| Enfield SACRE | NO | Volunteer for Us! |
| Essex SACRE | YES | |
| Gateshead SACRE | YES | |
| Gloucestershire SACRE | YES | |
| Greenwich SACRE | NO | Volunteer for Us! |
| Hackney SACRE | NO | Volunteer for Us! |
| Halton SACRE | APPLIED | |
| Hammersmith and Fulham SACRE | YES | |
| Hampshire SACRE | YES | |
| Haringey SACRE | YES | |
| Harrow SACRE | YES | |
| Hartlepool SACRE | YES | |
| Havering SACRE | YES | |
| Herefordshire SACRE | APPLIED | |
| Hertfordshire SACRE | YES | |
| Hillingdon SACRE | YES | |
| Hounslow SACRE | YES | |
| Isle of Wight SACRE | YES | |
| Isles of Scilly SACRE | NO | Volunteer for Us! |
| Islington SACRE | NO | Volunteer for Us! |
| Kensington and Chelsea SACRE | NO | Volunteer for Us! |
| Kent SACRE | NO | Volunteer for Us! |
| Kingston upon Hull SACRE | NO | Volunteer for Us! |
| Kingston upon Thames SACRE | YES | |
| Kirklees SACRE | YES | |
| Knowsley SACRE | NO | Volunteer for Us! |
| Lambeth SACRE | YES | |
| Lancashire SACRE | YES | |
| Leeds SACRE | YES | |
| Leicester SACRE | YES | |
| Leicestershire SACRE | YES | |
| Lewisham SACRE | YES | |
| Lincolnshire SACRE | YES | |
| Liverpool SACRE | YES | |
| Luton SACRE | NO | Volunteer for Us! |
| Manchester SACRE | YES | |
| Medway SACRE | NO | Volunteer for Us! |
| Merton SACRE | YES | |
| Middlesbrough SACRE | NO | Volunteer for Us! |
| Milton Keynes SACRE | YES | |
| Newcastle upon Tyne SACRE | YES | |
| Newham SACRE | YES | |
| Norfolk SACRE | YES | |
| North East Lincolnshire SACRE | YES | |
| North Lincolnshire SACRE | NO | Volunteer for Us! |
| North Somerset SACRE | YES | |
| North Tyneside SACRE | YES | |
| North Yorkshire SACRE | YES | |
| Northamptonshire SACRE | YES | |
| Northumberland SACRE | YES | |
| Nottingham City SACRE | YES | |
| Nottinghamshire SACRE | YES | |
| Oldham SACRE | YES | |
| Oxfordshire SACRE | YES | |
| Peterborough SACRE | YES | |
| Plymouth SACRE | YES | |
| Portsmouth SACRE | YES | |
| Reading SACRE | YES | |
| Redbridge SACRE | YES | |
| Redcar and Cleveland SACRE | YES | |
| Richmond upon Thames SACRE | YES | |
| Rochdale SACRE | YES | |
| Rotherham SACRE | YES | |
| Rutland SACRE | YES | |
| Salford SACRE | YES | |
| Sandwell SACRE | NO | Volunteer for Us! |
| Sefton SACRE | YES | |
| Sheffield SACRE | YES | |
| Shropshire SACRE | YES | |
| Slough SACRE | YES | |
| Solihull SACRE | NO | Volunteer for Us! |
| Somerset SACRE | YES | |
| South Gloucestershire SACRE | YES | |
| South Tyneside SACRE | YES | |
| Southampton SACRE | YES | |
| Southend-on-Sea SACRE | YES | |
| Southwark SACRE | YES | |
| St Helens SACRE | NO | Volunteer for Us! |
| Staffordshire SACRE | YES | |
| Stockport SACRE | YES | |
| Stockton-on-Tees SACRE | YES | |
| Stoke-on-Trent SACRE | YES | |
| Suffolk SACRE | NO | Volunteer for Us! |
| Sunderland SACRE | NO | Volunteer for Us! |
| Surrey SACRE | YES | |
| Sutton SACRE | YES | |
| Swindon SACRE | YES | |
| Tameside SACRE | YES | |
| Telford and Wrekin SACRE | NO | Volunteer for Us! |
| Thurrock SACRE | NO | Volunteer for Us! |
| Torbay SACRE | YES | |
| Tower Hamlets SACRE | YES | |
| Trafford SACRE | YES | |
| Wakefield SACRE | NO | Volunteer for Us! |
| Walsall SACRE | YES | |
| Waltham Forest SACRE | YES | |
| Wandsworth SACRE | NO | Volunteer for Us! |
| Warrington SACRE | NO | Volunteer for Us! |
| Warwickshire SACRE | YES | |
| West Berkshire SACRE | NO | Volunteer for Us! |
| West Sussex SACRE | NO | Volunteer for Us! |
| Westminster SACRE | YES | |
| Wigan SACRE | YES | |
| Wiltshire SACRE | NO | Volunteer for Us! |
| Windsor and Maidenhead SACRE | YES | |
| Wirral SACRE | YES | |
| Wokingham SACRE | YES | |
| Wolverhampton SACRE | NO | Volunteer for Us! |
| Worcestershire SACRE | YES | |
| York SACRE | YES | |
| Blaenau Gwent SACRE | YES | |
| Bridgend SACRE | YES | |
| Caerphilly SACRE | APPLIED | |
| Cardiff SACRE | YES | |
| Carmarthenshire SACRE | YES | |
| Ceredigion SACRE | NO | Volunteer for Us! |
| Conwy SACRE | NO | Volunteer for Us! |
| Denbighshire SACRE | YES | |
| Flintshire SACRE | NO | Volunteer for Us! |
| Gwynedd SACRE | YES | |
| Isle of Anglesey SACRE | APPLIED | |
| Merthyr Tydfil SACRE | YES | |
| Monmouthshire SACRE | YES | |
| Neath Port Talbot SACRE | NO | Volunteer for Us! |
| Newport SACRE | YES | |
| Pembrokeshire SACRE | YES | |
| Powys SACRE | YES | |
| Rhondda Cynon Taff SACRE | YES | |
| Swansea SACRE | YES | |
| Torfaen SACRE | YES | |
| Vale of Glamorgan SACRE | YES | |
| Wrexham SACRE | YES | |
| MOD SACRE | YES |