About AFGB, Lyon & Rhône
Cette page contains general information about the Association; how to join, how it started, the people who have been elected to run it and a policy statement about the website content. Readers can also get access to all the Newsletters that members have received since the branch restarted in 2001. Readers can either scroll down the page or just click on a title below to jump directly to a specific section.
Aims of the Association
Association France-Grande Bretagne is a not-for-profit organisation whose mission is to be a forum for intellectual and friendly exchanges between the people of the two countries. It strives to establish and maintain dialogue between inhabitants of both sides of the Channel by meetings and debates, whilst assuring a better understanding of each other by means of conferences.
There are 30 Associations in France, bringing together 3 000 members of whom about 120 live in and around Lyon. Each Association has its own "personality" and each has made its own declaration at the local Préfecture. The thing that all these associations have in common, is Article 2 of the statutes, which defines their objectives :
"the development of intellectual moral and economic relations between France and Great Britain, as well as the study, in a spirit of union and concordance, of all associated questions"
In this spirit, the objectives of the Lyon & Rhône association include the promotion of cultural and social links between the French and British communities, notably through English-language events in the Lyonnais (69) region.
Membership
Subscription to the Association France-Grande Bretagne, Lyon & Rhône is from September to August, broadly aligned to the academic year. Membership is open to any adult person who wishes to join by simply sending a completed application form and cheque made payable to Association France-Grande Bretagne, Lyon & Rhône.
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History
The Lyon branch of the Association France - Grande-Bretagne was originally established about 50 years ago. In the early 1960s the president was M. Isnard le Francé, a banker, whose wife was British. He was succeeded in the late 1960s by M. Hugues Morel-Journel, a silk merchant and one-time president of the Lyon Chamber of Commerce and president of the International Silk Association.
An AFGB ciné club was set up, showing a film in English every month, at first in a hall in the rue Sully, then in a professional cinema, Ciné-Caluire. The ciné club had a regular following of members for a good many years, but declined and finally ceased to operate when English-language (v.o.) films came to be shown regularly in the cinemas in Lyon.
During this time the Lyon AFGB was the principal organizer, together with the Mairie de Saint Germain au Mont d'Or, the British Consulate-General and the 5e Région Militaire, of the annual Franco-British Armistice Remembrance ceremony at the Commonwealth War Graves cemetery at Saint Germain. The ceremony still takes place each year, now organized by the Mairie of Saint Germain, the RAFA and the British Legion.
The Lyon AFGB was closely involved in the Lyon - Birmingham town twinning, and took part in many twinning events over the years. There was also a full programme of public lectures by visiting speakers, arranged through the British Council, the British Tourist Authority or the British Consulate-General, there was an active English conversation group, ski outings were organized for members during the winter season and there were various other activities of a franco-british nature.
In the mid-1970s M. Jean Perrachon, PDG of the firm Keller-Dorian, became president. Brian Page became president in 1980, then Keith Gordon took over in the mid-1980s. There was practically no activity during the 1990s.
The Lyon & Rhône branch of the AFGB was re-launched by Margaret Marret in 2001, with a programme that includes the association's traditional activities like public lectures, cultural and academic activities like the reading group, and events of a more social nature like a monthly lunch in a restaurant.
Newsletters
Click on an icon below to view the corresponding newsletter.
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- April to June 2011
- January to April 2011
- September to December 2010
Committee members
Privacy Policy
Summary
AFGB Lyon & Rhône (the Association) is firmly committed to its members' privacy. AFGB does not, for any reason, voluntarily release any information about anyone to anyone. Read on for complete details.
Our Commitment To Privacy
Your privacy is important to us. So that you fully understand our privacy policy we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available from every page on our site.
The Information We Collect
This notice applies to all information collected or submitted to the Associaiton via our Web site, by telephone, mail, email or any other method. Whilst it is not possible to order services, make requests, or register to receive materials we do publish information originating from the Association and from other non-associated organisations. In general we do not collect personal information from third parties however some personal details may appear on the site for facultative reasons, such as:
- Your name and your business name (if applicable)
- Your address
- Your email address
- Your phone number
- Your fax number
We may also publish additional information that is needed to handle the specific needs of the entry in question.
The Way We Use Information
We use the information you provide about yourself and your events only to enable others to take part in or obtain information about a specific event or item. This information is only shared to the extent that details can be read by any person consulting the site.
We use email addresses only to answer any email we receive, to provide information that was specifically requested or - if you are a member of the Association - to notify you about future events or other matters of general interest. Email addresses are not used for any other purpose and are not shared with outside parties. Private postal addresses are never shared with anyone, except where a contact address is published on the website for a specific purpose. Email addresses relative to AFGB are encrypted to protect their users from spam; the addresses of third parties, where provided by same, will not in general be encrypted except following a specific written request.
We use non-identifying and aggregate information, such as site traffic statistics, to help better design our website.
Finally, we neither seek nor use personally identifiable information in ways unrelated to the aims of the Association.
Our Commitment To Data Security
We do not collect any data on line, therefore there is no policy for prevention of unauthorized access or maintainence of data accuracy.
- Personal data is never transfered over a computer network; the Associaton does not have access to one.
- Personal data, such as membership and mailing lists, is totally separate from the website and is only kept on personal computers used by members of the committee of AFGB Lyon & Rhône for the express purpose of communication with members of the Association.
- Personal data is not available to AFGB members unless they are directly involved in the use of that data.
- Personal data that is no longer required is discarded.
We simply use information as we see fit and publish it on the website only in connection with the activities of the Association.
Our Commitment To Children's Privacy
Protecting the privacy of the very young is equally important. We never collect or maintain information from anyone we know to be under age 13, and no part of our website is structured to attract anyone under 13.
How You Can Access Or Correct Your Information
Members of the Association can request a copy of all their personally identifiable information that we have collected and maintain by contacting the Secretary. If you are not a member of the Association, you can be assured that we do not have any information about you, except in the case of data which is published on the website and therefore in the public domain. We do not entertain information requests by third parties.
You can correct factual errors in your personally identifiable information by sending us a request that credibly shows the error.
How To Contact Us
Should you have any questions or concerns about these privacy policies, please .
