Events

Forest is known for organising some of the best events in Westminster and at the annual party conferences. In recent years events have included:

Party conference events have included:

  • Politics and Prohibition: Freedom Under Fire w/ TaxPayers Alliance
    Think Tent, Manchester (October 2025)
  • Politics and Prohibition: The Fight for Choice
    NEC, Birmingham (September 2025)
  • Smoking Gun: The Infantilisation of Britain
    Think Tent, Manchester (October 2023)
  • Politics and Prohibition: Should Smoking Be Banned For Good?
    Think Tent, Birmingham (October 2022)
  • Eat, Drink, Smoke, Vape
    Rooftop lounge, Great John Street Hotel, Manchester (October 2019)
  • Should Smoking Be Consigned to History?
    Austin Court, Birmingham (October 2018)
  • Eat, Drink, Smoke, Vape
    Rooftop lounge, Great John Street Hotel, Manchester (October 2017)
  • Eat, Drink, Smoke, Vape (drinks reception for almost 500 guests)
    Nuvo, Birmingham (October 2016)
  • The Liberty Lounge: Stand Up For Freedom 
    Hyatt Hotel, Birmingham (October 2014)
  • Last Chance Saloon
    Think Tent, Birmingham (October 2014)
  • Stand Up For Liberty
    Comedy Store, Manchester (October 2013)
  • Stand Up For Liberty
    Comedy Store, Manchester (October 2011)
  • Save Our Pubs & Clubs w/ Clubs & Institutes Union (CIU)
    Cavern Club, Liverpool (September 2011)
  • The Freedom Zone w/ The Freedom Association
    Two-day mini conference at Austin Court conference centre, Birmingham (2008)
  • Politics and Prohibition (drinks reception for 300+ guests)
    Royal Bath Hotel, Bournemouth (2006)
  • Fight the Ban: Fight for Choice (panel discussion featuring artist David Hockney)
    Metropole Hotel, Brighton (2005)

Other events:

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Mission & Vision

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Mission

Forest’s mission is to protect the interests of adults who choose to smoke or consume tobacco.

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Our key aims and objectives are to:

  • counteract the “denormalisation” of smoking, and smokers
  • prevent further restrictions on the purchase and consumption of tobacco
  • establish closer links with other tobacco-friendly groups at home and abroad
  • build support among consumers of tobacco and other similarly threatened groups
  • highlight the increasingly intrusive nature of Big Government in the lives of private individuals