Haslemere Group

The Haslemere Group was an informal group of people, which included many Oxfam staff and its supporters, that took a radical approach to the causes of underdevelopment. It famuously produced The Haslemere Declaration on world poverty which was published on 26 March 1968.

The Declaration also included the claim that the 'exploitation of the Third World is qualitatively similar to, and caused by, the same politio-economic factors which are the basis of poverty in Britain'.

It was also noted for organising the lecture delivered by Dom Helder Camara, Archbishop of Olinda and Recife (Brazil), at the Haslemere Group's Convention on Poverty is Violence; Exploitation of the Third World, at the Round House, London, in 1969.