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Next Monday, 5th December, I will have the pleasure of talking to Ian Munt, BN's recently-appointed volunteer Sports officer. By day, Ian  holds a senior role within a large corporation, setting up programmes; building risk assessments, developing policies and training programmes, and engaging with stakeholders in the UK, Europe and Asia. Six months into the role he has attended and helped with National and international sporting events, most recently the INF Swimming Gala in Belgrade, Serb

...and we're back! After a well-earned summer break, British Naturism's online interview/chat session, The Forum Live returns next Monday 5 September at 19:30. I'm delighted to announce that our first guest of the season will be Jane Mulkerrins. Jane is Associate Editor at The Times Magazine, where she commissions, edits and writes features and interviews. She also regularly contributes to Times Radio. She spent a decade in New York 2010-2021, reporting from across the US and North America

Join me again next Monday (28 February) as I talk to Jason Hatherill, owner of the pre-eminent Naturist resort in the Canary Islands, Magnolias Natura. Jason was born in the UK and was a teacher in the east end of London for 23 years.  In 2015 he moved to Gran Canaria in search of something different and a quieter life. In 2016 he became the owner and Director of Mareu Hoteles and leads a team of thirty staff in two holiday resorts one of which is Magnolias Natura - a nude resort since 2002

On next Monday's (6 February) Forum Live I will have the pleasure of talking to John Gelder, British Naturism's Volunteering Officer. British Naturism would be powerless without the many volunteers who give their time and energy to the organisation for free, from senior management positions, steering the organisation into the future and ensure the provision of a valuable service to members, to people who make sure events run smoothly, take on a national or regional role, work on the efficie

Next Monday’s Forum Live features an opportunity to get to know Jon Williams, one of the Directors of British Naturism.  Jon has been vice-Chair of British Naturism for some two and a half years, during which time the Executive Committee has benefited from his skill in chairing its regular meetings. The wider membership will have seen him chairing the AGM too.  More recently he has masterminded the development of plans to develop British Naturism: Sunfolk and bring it up to the standard we are a

Next Monday (14 February) I will have the pleasure of talking to Lachlan Robertson, a BN member who has recently been appointed to a newly created rôle of Partnerships Officer, aimed at creating and maintaining strong, collaborative relationships with the outside world including government, police and other authorities, charities, and groups and organisations.  Lachlan is a retired town planner, born in Scotland who has lived in southern England for nearly 40 years. Despite having been of a

We're excited to welcome back a guest who we thoroughly enjoyed meeting first time round - Laurent Luft. He was an excellent and informative guest when he first appeared on the Forum Live last year and talked about his role as president of the Association des Naturistes de Paris (ANP) and in charge of international relations for the FFN (Fédération Française de Naturisme), but now there are two additional reasons to want to hear what he has to say.  Firstly, we'll learn more about the FFN's

Zut alors! My guest for The Forum Live next Monday 1st June will be Laurent Luft. Laurent is the president of the Association des Naturistes de Paris (ANP) (who also have a You Tube channel) and in charge of international relations for the FFN (Fédération Française de Naturisme). The ANP are an active group and from time to time we've featured information about their activities - including a naked visit to a well-known Parisian art gallery - in BN magazine. We'll be talking amongst the

I'm looking forward to talking once again to Laurent Luft from FFN, Fédération Française de Naturisme, the French equivalent of BN. In fact, it's more than that as Laurent is involved at a local level with a club in Paris and the International Naturist Federation (INF). He's a busy man. I'll be finding out how things are going with each of those organisations and hear more about the work Laurent does. As the picture shows, Laurent organised a series of naked visits to the Hyperrealism

On a day that the news is full of US Presidential elections, I'm delighted to announce that on next Monday's The Forum Live (11 November) I'll be talking to another recently elected US President! My guest will be Linda Weber, no stranger to The Forum Live (and a BN member), but this time in her new role as President of the American Association for Nude Recreation (AANR), an organisation that operates in the US rather like BN over here. We'll find out more about Linda, the roles she has fill

In our online interview sessions we continue to reach out around the world and tonight (7th September) will be no exception. I'm really pleased to tell you that our guest will be Linda Weber from AANR West. That's the America Association of Nude Recreation, if you didn't know. We heard from Linda a few weeks ago when we covered 'Women in Naturism' but this time we'll learn more about Naturism in the US. Linda may be bringing some colleagues with her. There will be plenty to talk about...!

Avid readers of the latest BN Magazine will be aware of A Year in the Life - Adventures in British Subculture by Lucy Leonelli, a new book to be published next week in which Lucy charts her experiences with a variety of UK-based groups and activities. One chapter is dedicated to her visit to a British Naturism event.  I'll be interviewing Lucy on next week's The Forum Live - 17th January. Lucy Leonelli is a self- proclaimed social tourist with an unquenchable thirst for exploring, expe

Join me again next Monday (15 January) as I talk to Jason Hatherill, owner of the pre-eminent Naturist resort in the Canary Islands, Magnolias Natura. Jason was born in the UK and was a teacher in the east end of London for 23 years.  In 2015 he moved to Gran Canaria in search of something different and a quieter life. In 2016 he became the co-owner and Director of Mareu Hoteles and leads a team of thirty staff in two holiday resorts one of which is Magnolias Natura - a nude resort since 20

The Forum Live is truly a window on the world - last week Florida, this week Slovenia! I'm delighted to announce that my guest next Monday 16 October will be Maja Penko, the President of the Slovenian federation. I recently met Maja, in the flesh, as it were and I'm looking forward to talking to her - she is full of passion for Naturism and Naturism in Slovenia, and told me that - wait for it - they have more female Naturists in Slovenia than male. Look forward to hearing more about that and all

Next Monday (31st August), I am delighted to tell you that my guest on The Forum Live will be British Naturism President, Mark Bass. Mark joined British Naturism in 2007, having been introduced to Naturism during his university years. By day he works as a mild-mannered lecturer in Biomedical Science at the University of Sheffield.  But by night he stalks the streets, fighting injustice wherever it may be found and promoting naturist rights!  Mark was co-opted to the Executive Committee of B

My next guest on The Forum Live will be Naturist author, editor, festival producer and film-maker Mark Storey. Mark has enjoyed nudity outdoors since his early teens, skinny-dipping after fishing for trout in the Sierra mountains of California. He joined The Sequoians, a small landed club in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1980, and and joined the Naturist Action Committee the late 1980s. He has written for 'N' magazine, the quarterly journal of The Naturist Society since 1995 and is now Cons

Our programme of online events continues to stimulate, to attract new members (and new naturists) and to bring the media to our door. There's great news coming that they will continue after lockdown - look out for the announcement and further details. Earlier this week I was delighted to welcome Pat and Leticia from the Irish Naturist Association which attracted the largest audience yet for the Monday night Forum Live session. Next Monday, I'm talking to BN's events manager Mark Walsh,

G'day! It's great to announce that next week's guest (19th July) on the Forum Live will be Mick Davie, President of the Australian Naturist Federation (ANF) Mick joined the ANF only two years ago because he saw a need and rather than just sitting back and complaining he put his hat in the ring to lend a hand. Mick's background is in road transport, and has had the privilege of driving trucks of all sizes including road trains around the great country of Australia for the past 30 years.

I'm delighted to say that my guests next Monday 19th June on the Forum Live will be Nick and Lins, globally-renowned Naturist bloggers! It's the third time we've been fortunate enough to have their participation and we look forward to hearing more about their recent naked adventures including travels and experiences in South Africa, Thailand and even Bali! Find out more about Naked Wanderings at nakedwanderings.com. Join the session on the night over in the BN shop

We're pleased to announce that next Monday 17 August our guests will be expert Naturist travellers and bloggers Nick and Lins from https://www.nakedwanderings.com and https://twitter.com/nakedwanderings. Nick and Lins travel the world full time on a quest to learn about all the different aspects of Naturism and in search of the best Naturist spots. On their blog and social media, they show the world what naturism is like seen through the eyes of two 30-somethings. I'm sure they will ha

Recently we brought you the news that Naturist bloggers Nick and Lins of Naked Wanderings had visited the UK - I'm pleased to report that they will be my guests on next week's The Forum Live (4 November). We'll talk about their time in England, the making of the three films and their attendance at BN's Every Body festival plus hear about their time at the INF Congress in Mexico and learn about where they will be going next! Join the session on the night, over in the BN shop. Places are

I'm delighted to announce the return on Monday 4th October of popular Forum Live guests, Nick and Lins of www.nakedwanderings.com who we last spoke to in August 2020. Nick and Lins, as their website name suggests, travel the Naturist world and both blog and vlog about it. Since we last met them they've travelled extensively in Spain and Italy, as well as closer to their home in Belgium. We'll catch up with their adventures, learn more about the places they've been and find out their views o

Next Monday, 19th October our guest will be Nick Mayhew-Smith A member of British Naturism for 30 years, Nick is an enthusiastic advocate for naturism, a writer and journalist who worked with fellow BN member Mike Betts to produce three guide books about nude beaches and naturist sites for the general public: Bare Beaches (2004), Bare Britain (2005) and The World’s Best Nude Beaches & Resorts (2007). More recently he has been writing about the wilderness and nature, but has remained clo

Next Monday, 24 July, in the last Forum Live before the summer break, I'll have the pleasure of talking to Nick Mayhew-Smith, recently appointed as British Naturism's Clubs Officer. Nick has a long history in Naturism and BN and, as the author of many books about Naturist places has been a guest on the Forum Live before. On Monday, we'll learn more about the role of Clubs Officer and what Nick hopes to achieve - and how. It can't be a one-man job and so we'll also find out how we all can he

We're off to Mexico next Monday, 30 October to meet Blaney and Steve, newly installed at the dreamy, get-away-from-it-all Naturist resort at Playa Sonrisa. We'll find out more about them, the resort, the local area and their plans for the future - maybe see some (dreamy, get-away-from-it-all) images too... Join on the night from the BN shop