The Alternative Natural Philosophy Association “ANPA” was originally founded in the autumn of 1979 by Pierre Noyes , Clive Kilmister, Ted Bastin, Fred Parker-Rhodes and John Amson.  The first meeting of ANPA took place in King’s College Cambridge UK the following year 1980. The group has grown, met annually and proceedings have been published regularly. For a variety of reasons, ANPA administration faltered and it became necessary for the meetings that took place in 2013, 2014 & 2015 to be organised on an ad-hoc basis.

The primary purpose of ANPA is to consider coherent models based on a minimal number of assumptions in order to bring together major areas of thought and experience within a Natural Philosophy including Physics and a continuing investigation of the Combinatorial Hierarchy of Parker-Rhodes and others (the original foundation of the organisation). Such models are often alternative to prevailing scientific attitude.