One of the early campaigners was Hugh Brock, who was involved with the badge design in some way. Somewhere among my bits and pieces that I have come across while clearing is a newssheet from the village of New Ash Green showing his widow dedicating a seat in his memory. New Ash Green is organised in neighbourhoods, and he believed that these were about the optimum size for societies, that a lot of our problems were because we were identified with huge nation states which divorce the individual from the decision making. He was a lovely, intelligent, gentle man.

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