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The Cheltenham Group

The Cheltenham Group was created with the meeting of promonent members of the men's and father's rights groups in the UK. The initial meeting was during the weekend of 3-5 June 1994, started Friday evening at Witney, Oxfordshire and continued in Cheltenham during Saturday and Sunday.

The Group organised several meetings, which resulted in the major survey of members of Families Need Fathers (FNF) of 1995, and the publishing in 1996 of the results in a report The Emperor's New Clothes.

With the evidence available of the general sotuation facing men in family law in the UK, the Group subsequently produced further reports and a submission to the UN Human Rights Committee. These reports may be read on the Group's website at www.c-g.org.uk.

Dr John Campion was the Group's initial Director, to be replaced about 1997 by Barry Worrall, with whom he had worked on the FNF survey. Barry Worrall was to produce a book Without Authority which describes his own legal case, blended with a description of the general situation, and some history of the Cheltenham Group which illustrates the difficulties of obtaining resolution to serious issues through the UK's political system.