Jane Wynne Willson

Jane Wynne Willson (born 1933)^[1] is a British teacher, writer, campaigner and humanist. She was a vice-president and is now a patron of Humanists UK.^[2]

She worked as a teacher, first becoming actively involved in the secular humanist movement when her oldest child was attending school.^{[citation needed]}

She established local humanist groups in Bristol and Cheltenham, and has since been an officer of Birmingham Humanists for over 30 years. She was a member of the BHA Executive Committee from 1966 to 1972, and again from 1988 to 1994, chairing the committee from 1989 to 1992. She was a Chair of the International Humanist and Ethical Union from 1993 to 1996, and its Vice-President until 2002. She served as a Director of the Rationalist Press Association.^[3] Her mother was a barrister, Theodora Llewelyn Davies.^[4][5]

In September 2021, the Jane Wynne Willson Celebrant Training Bursary was announced, to be awarded annually to help more people in the West Midlands, especially those from low income socio-economic backgrounds and currently underrepresented groups, train as Humanist celebrants.^[6]

Her books on non-religious ceremonies, such as funerals, weddings, and baby namings include:^[3]

• Sharing the Future (first published as To Love and to Cherish, 1988, several later editions)
• Funerals Without God (first published 1989, several later editions; ISBN 0-901825-14-X)
• New Arrivals (first published 1991; later revision with Robert Ashby, 1999)
• Parenting without God: Experiences of a Humanist Mother (1998)^[7]
• The Chain of Love - A Victorian Family History (2007)^[8]