About the Attwood Group

The Attwood Group began to gather in 2002 in memory of Thomas Attwood (1783-1856) who campaigned for the 1831 Reform Bill and was one of  Birmingham’s first two MPs. Most had also been members of the Bromsgrove Group, attending the annual weekend gatherings near Bromsgrove.

Attwood was a democrat who opposed the growing mood of centralism at Westminster and promoted measures which would lead to full employment, peace and prosperity, regarding foreign trade as incidental to the nation’s wealth. The group believes that these measures need implementing today and  for some years presented annual Attwood Awards to individuals or organisations who had been working for participative decentralised democracy, strengthening of regional economies or economic and monetary reform

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