Talk:Canning House

Some proposed changes
I would like to revise the introductory section and add a new section entitled 'History'. Content will therefore need to be both removed from and added to the page. Please see below:

1. Please remove the following text from the opening section:

"Canning House is an organisation dedicated to promote understanding and engagement between Britain and the Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian world, through presentations, events, art and educational activities.

Founded in 1943, Canning House serves as a forum for debate and discussion of the current affairs of the region.[1] It brings together persons from a broad spectrum of backgrounds – business, politics, financial services, academia, the arts – who share a common interest in all things Iberian and Latin American.

Canning House consists of the Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Council and Canning House Limited. The former was registered in 1973 as a company limited by guarantee and having no share capital. It is a non-political, non-profit organisation registered as a charity.

The Canning House mission is to be the UK’s leading forum for information, contacts and debate on Latin American politics, economy and business, and to celebrate and promote awareness in the UK of the languages, cultures and history of Latin America, Spain and Portugal.

Named after George Canning (1770–1827), British Foreign Secretary, 1807–1822, and briefly Prime Minister in 1827. During his early period in the Foreign Office (1807–9) Canning became deeply involved in the affairs of Spain, Portugal and Latin America."

2. Please add the following paragraph in the opening section: "Canning House is a not-for profit and non-governmental organization dedicated to the discussion of social, political and economic affairs across the region of Latin America through research and debate. Founded in 1943, Canning House serves as a forum for debate and discussion of the current affairs of the region.[1] It brings together persons from a broad spectrum of backgrounds – business, politics, financial services, academia, the arts – who share a common interest in all things Iberian and Latin American. The Canning House mission is to be the UK’s leading forum for information, contacts and debate on Latin American politics, economics and business, and to celebrate and promote awareness in the UK of the languages, cultures and history of Latin America, Spain and Portugal."

3. Please add a new section entitled 'History' together with the following paragraph, complete with the required references: History

"Canning House is named after George Canning (1770–1827), British Foreign Secretary between 1807-1809 and 1822-1827, and briefly Prime Minister in 1827. Canning was a prominent advocate of the emerging republics in early Latin America and is a recognized figure in the region with several streets bearing his name . Canning House first came into being in 1943 with the creation of the Hispanic Council and the Luso-Brazilian Council simultaneously. Following the end of the Second World War, both councils were merged and the resulting entity was commonly referred to as Canning House. In 1973 the Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Council was registered as a limited company, and in 1997 Canning House was set up as a wholly owned subsidiary . Initial meetings took place at the Shell-Mex House before offices were set up in Berkeley Street in 1947. From 1953 until 2018 Canning House was based in Belgrave Square before moving to 126 Wigmore Street, where it can be found today ."

4. The reason for this request is to add more detailed and better organised information to this page, with the aim of adding further sections over the coming weeks.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by CH43wikieditor (talk • contribs)


 * Needed to clean up some edits, to bring this up to Wikipedia norms. Also due to the WP:COI nature of these changes, some of the promotional-sounding elements needed to be redacted (see WP:NOTPROMO, WP: NPOV). And generally, a few more different sources would be helpful here. Dl2000 (talk) 03:00, 14 May 2020 (UTC)

Some proposed changes
I would like to add a paragraph to the opening section of the page.

1. Please add the following text on a new line to the opening section:

Canning House has a number of areas including Trade & Investment, Government & Policy , Education , Research and Culture.

CH43wikieditor (talk) 13:31, 20 May 2020 (UTC)

Some proposed changes
1. I would like to add a new section titled 'Structure' with the following information:

Canning House operates a membership system that includes both Individual and Corporate membership offerings. Individual and Public members are given access to Canning House newsletters, Canning Insights and to Geopolitical, Cultural, Flagship and Business, Trade and Investment events at a discount, while Corporate members have full access to all Canning House events and publications

CH43wikieditor (talk) 10:26, 3 June 2020 (UTC)

Some proposed changes
1. Add the following paragraph to 'Focus Areas' section:

In the area of Trade & Investment, Canning House takes an active role in encouraging links between the UK and Latin America. It holds several events each year discussing the opportunities available across many sectors and informing British businesses about the Latin American market. This ranges from hosting trade missions from countries such as Bolivia, to holding conferences on the Biofuel industry in Latin America , as well as smaller, focused policy roundtables with key figures from selected industries.

CH43wikieditor (talk) 11:51, 23 June 2020 (UTC)

Some proposed changes
I would like to add the following text to the Focus Areas section:

Canning House has served as secretariat for the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) meetings on Latin America since 2015, and has contributed to parliamentary papers examining the UK’s relationship with Latin American nations. Each year Canning House holds the Canning Lecture, a series of lectures presented by visiting heads of state in which they offer their perspective on UK-Latin America relations and explore possible avenues for cooperation in the future. Previous figures to have given lectures include former President of Chile Michelle Bachelet, the President of Colombia Ivan Duque , and former President of Brazil Fernando Henrique Cardoso. In 2010, then-Foreign Secretary William Hague became the first British Foreign Secretary to give the Canning Lecture, renamed in that year as the Canning Agenda. In it, he set out the government’s foreign policy agenda with a renewed focus on Latin America, outlining a desire to increase trade and encourage British businesses to explore the region in the context of an increasingly globalized world economy.

Some proposed changes
I would like to add the following text to the 'Focus Areas' section:

Canning House has strong links with a range of educational institutions across the UK. It has partnered with the Latin America and Caribbean Centre at the London School of Economics to create the Canning House Research Forum, a “multi-year rolling programme of research and policy engagement around the overarching theme of “The Future of Latin America and the Caribbean” with particular reference to UK-Latin America relations”. The Canning House Library Collection, a collection of 54,000 works covering a broad range of subject areas concerning the Hispanic and Lusophone countries of the world, now resides in King’s College London having been gifted to the university in 2012. It was originally housed inside Canning House from its creation in 1943.

CH43wikieditor (talk) 11:52, 28 April 2021 (UTC)