Following on from my post about having discovered the membership of the National Secular Society, I have found the corresponding figures for the British Humanist Association.

I could find no figures on the website, so it was necessary to root around in the Annual Reports submitted to the Charity Commission by the BHA.

The statement below is from the 2005 Annual Report (PDF 300k)(*):

Membership numbers rose from 4151 to 5138 during the year.

For the headline figure I have assumed a 60 million UK population, and that no BHA members live abroad, giving an exact ratio of 1 per 11678 people.

Previous BHA Annual reports have not - as far as I can tell - included membership figures.

The Churches almost all publish exhaustive statistics every year.

Currently the BHA website front page is claiming a humanist constituency of 17 million. Click on the screen to enlarge.

Hmmmmm. Go figure.

(*) As explained on the Wardman Wire “About” page, it is site policy to make local copies of referenced documents, to avoid “leeching” bandwidth from other websites, and to make sure that the material remains available. In this case, government websites have a history of moving around repeatedly, so it is especially necessary.

Tags: british humanist association, bha membership

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