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National Secular Society
Formation1866; 158 years ago (1866)
FounderCharles Bradlaugh
TypeNGO
Legal statusLimited company
HeadquartersLondon
Region
United Kingdom
President
Keith Porteous Wood
Executive Director
Stephen Evans
Websitewww.secularism.org.uk

The National Secular Society (NSS) is a British campaigning organisation that promotes secularism and the separation of church and state. It holds that no one should gain advantage or disadvantage because of their religion or lack of it. It was founded by Charles Bradlaugh in 1866.

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