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Inter Faith Week 2010 - Press Release from Interfaith Network of
the UK
An Inter Faith Week will take place across England and Wales
from Sunday 21 to Saturday 27 November 2010.
The aims of the Week are: to strengthen good inter faith relations at all levels; to increase awareness of the different and distinct faith communities in the UK, in particular celebrating and building on the contribution which their members make to their neighbourhoods and to wider society; and to increase understanding between people of religious and non-religious belief.
This will be the second time that such a Week has taken place in England and Wales. It builds on the very successful pattern of events held last November which ranged from social action events, to discussions and dialogues, inter faith football matches, meals, inter faith walks and pilgrimages, festivals and celebrations, tree plantings, exhibitions, concerts, film festivals, activities in schools and in FE and HE and other institutions.
Minister for Cohesion Shahid Malik said "The 2009 Week was a big success. It raised the profile of faith communities and their contribution to society, increased inter faith engagement and understanding and helped people of religious and non-religious beliefs get into dialogue. I am delighted that there will be a similar Week in 2010."
Co-Chairs of the Inter Faith Network for the UK, Rt Revd Dr Alastair Redfern and Dr Girdari Lal Bhan, said "Inter Faith Week offers a tremendous opportunity for shared learning, making new connections and deepening inter faith understanding." It is hoped that faith communities across the country will take part, alongside schools, colleges, universities, local authorities, health care organisations, and many others.
The Week is being led by the Inter Faith Network for the UK , working with its member bodies, in consultation with the Department for Communities and Local Government and also with the Department for Children, Schools and Families, the Local Government Association and the Equality and Human Rights. Regional Faith Forums in England will again play a key role in supporting and making known the pattern of events in their regions. In Wales, the lead on the Week is being taken by the Inter Faith Council for Wales in consultatation with relevant statutory and other bodies.
Hampshire Interfaith Network celebrates success from 2009
Internationally respected writer and broadcaster gives Hampshire’s third Interfaith lecture
Imam Salah Al Ansarie of the Albirr Mosque in Basingstoke
addressed Hampshire County Council's Full Council Meeting in the Council
Chambers, Winchester on 19 November during National Interfaith Week.
Read the address
BBC Politics Show (15/11/09) video clip featuring the Interfaith Calendar 2010
The Hampshire Interfaith Network welcomes the
National
Interfaith Week between 15 November and 21 November 2009. Here is a
list of events happening throughout the South East
region.
Local
events
Hampshire
Interfaith Calendar Goes From Strength To Strength
Record numbers
of entries have helped to shape a new calendar for 2010 whose creative
religious designs by Hampshire schoolchildren have attracted global interest
SEEFF CONFERENCE (only for HIN members)
You are warmly invited to attend the South East England Faiths Forum
(SEEFF) Regional Consultation Your SEEFF! Your Faith, Your Region, Your
Voice…You are heard
As the result of the resent series of
Sub-Regional conferences; Hear: from a cross section of local voices how it is
proposed that SEEFF will support to your faith group and to partners Discuss:
the organisational structure for SEEFF and the key priorities for SEEFF in the
next three years Tuesday 28 April 2009 Victoria Hall, The Town Hall, Blagrave
Street, Reading, Berks RG1 1QH
Refreshments: 3.30pm, event to start:
4pm - 7pm followed by a buffet vegetarian buffet
We are very much looking
forward to seeing you!
To Register: download booking form or
contacting DSR.administrator@cofeguildford.org.uk
Tel 01483 790 324
A report of SEEFF's sub-regional conference at Basingstoke Carnival Hall facilitated by sub-regional co-ordinator Taki Jaffer will soon follow but here are some photos. HIN who supported the conference were thanked. Taki stated "I would like to take this opportunity to thank HIN for the support it has given SEEFF and myself. Without your involvement, the project would have much the poorer. My thanks also go to Amjid for helping on the day in his role as a facilitator."
Inter Faith Week 15 to 21 November 2009 - a message from Harriet of the Interfaith Network of the UK
I attach a copy of a press release about Inter Faith Week which has this morning been issued by the Department for Communities and Local Government (CLG).
I also attach a copy of an information sheet outlining more details of the Week, the background to it and suggested ideas for activities and events that might take place during it. As the information sheet notes, the Week is being facilitated by the Inter Faith Network for the UK and CLG. It will not be a Week with a programme of centrally organised or officially ‘badged’ events. Rather, it will be a week in which faith groups and their places of worship, inter faith bodies, schools and institutions of further and higher education, local authorities and other public agencies are encouraged to hold their own events and to highlight the importance of inter faith understanding and cooperation and greater awareness about the faith communities and their engagement in building community.
Regional faith forums in England are being invited to draw in and share information about events in their regions. If you are organising an event and want to let others in your region know about this, please use the email contact details for the relevant forum to do so. Contact details can be found at www.interfaith.org.uk/local/directory.htm and www.erffn.org.uk.
Download press release and information sheet.
Planning is still at early stages and further details will be available across the coming weeks.
Best wishes, Harriet Crabtree
Dr Harriet Crabtree
Director Inter Faith Network for the UK
8A Lower Grosvenor Place,
London SW1W 0EN
Tel 020 7931 7766
Greetings to you all
I contact you on behalf of SEEFF
(South East England Faiths Forum) to advise you of a unique opportunity to be
involved in the rejuvenation of this regional body. My name is Taki Jaffer and
I have been tasked with a project to contact and consult with members of the
Interfaith Network , Faith organisations, Strategic Partnership Links ,SEEFF
members, and other organisations that are involved with “faith”,
about SEEFF’s potential, range and scope in the Sub-regional Area
(Central).
To assist me in achieving these goals I will need you to
contact me to have a brief discussion and then request you attend a
sub-regional seminar. Thereafter, there will be a regional seminar in late
April for which your attendance would be greatly appreciated.
At the
sub-regional seminar, your input into how, SEEFF should operate, its
methodology, its governance and future action plans, will be debated, to
achieve a strong and inclusive SEEFF, based on the region’s input. Your
views will be included in the report to the main regional seminar. This will
lead to a strong voice of ‘faith’ from the region, which will then be
able to influence statutory authorities and central government.
There
will be one sub- regional conference held for all participants in Hampshire
& Surrey at a venue and time to be ascertained from your input and a second
conference for the IOW participants, on the Island. Should you have contacts
who, have not received this information and would like to be involved, please
forward them my details, to ensure their inclusion for this project.
For more general details related to this project, please visit the
SEEFF website
I look forward to
hearing from you soon.
With thanks (on behalf of SEEFF)
Taki
Jaffer tel 07710604657, email takijaffer@ntlworld.com