PaganAwareness.net.au
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Pagan Awareness Network Australia
Description
correct misinformation, raise awareness and educate the general public about Paganism and associated beliefs and practises in order to achieve religious tolerance·
The Pagan Awareness Network Incorporated (PAN Inc) is a not-for-profit educational association with members Australia-wide. It is run by a management committee whose members are drawn from a broad cross-section of the Pagan community. The Association is incorporated in the state of New South Wales, with sub-committees in other states of Australia. It has no formal ties with any religious body, but works proactively both within the Pagan community and as a point of contact for the public, including government and media organisations.
The Pagan Awareness Network began in January 1997 when the Witches League for Public Awareness (Salem Mass. USA) withdrew their regional controllers. I was the Australian representative and with the support of the coven I worked with, had already embarked upon the task of making the WLPA a registered organisation here in Australia when this happened. Rather than waste all the work we had already done I decided to start a new group here in Australia and we came up with the Pagan Awareness Network (PAN). It was around the same time that we decided to register a Church (SOTEG) and to make PAN the educational arm of that Church, to save both time and money. PAN started out with a web site and information pamphlets that aimed to get the truth out there about what Pagans are and what they really do. March the 23rd 1997 was the first Public Full Moon Circle PAN held and was very successful. These still continue every month in Seven Hills. In June as part of SOTEG, we held our first public Sabbat, Yule. This was a huge success and almost 200 people turned up as well as Channel 9. On the 30th of September the Pagan Awareness Network split with SOTEG Inc and became an entity in its own right, incorporating on the 15th of October 1997 and officially becoming the Pagan Awareness Network Inc.
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