Faith Matters has overseen two international ‘micro-finance’ projects which support the development of small businesses in Jerusalem and the West Bank in Palestine. The Jerusalem Interest Free Fund: The fund provides small business and study loans to Arab Palestinian women and Charedi (Orthodox Jewish) women. The fund offers the loans for small business start-ups and […]
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Faith Matters co-ordinated the launch of Rotherham Council’s ‘One Town, One Community’ event with the aim of developing good interfaith relationships and preventing the spread of violent and extremist messages. Survivors of Rwanda, Bosnia and the Holocaust hosted workshops about how communities can prevent the spread of violent and extremist messages. The Minister for Cohesion […]
Continue ReadingThis programme provided young people with the opportunity to discuss matters around identity, faith and local issues that may be impacting on them. We worked with young Bangladeshi and young Somali groups in the London Borough of Enfield to look at these issues within a safe and secure environment. The London Borough of Enfield asked […]
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One hundred mosques provided the basis for the Developing Diversity directory published by Faith Matters which looked at the top 100 leading mosques in England which met a majority of the criteria that Muslim women wanted to see within them. Inclusion and accessibility to religious institutions not only helps to increase the development of healthy […]
Continue ReadingPrevent Peers Programme – Training on Prevent Work with 8 Local Authorities in the West Midlands Area in England Faith leaders, elected members and officers in eight local authorities in the West Midlands were provided with support on what the Prevent strategy entailed, Al Qaeda social narratives that were used to pull in young disaffected people […]
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Faith Matters explored local issues of tensions amongst young male Sikhs and Muslims which threatened to create local and national hotspots of tension. The project culminated in the Cohesive Communities report which can be used by communities as a resource to develop cohesion and to look at divergent dialogues between Sikh and Muslim communities. The […]
Continue ReadingThis programme devised and undertaken by Faith Matters was based on a tour of US Muslim female writers in the UK and to give British Muslim women the opportunity to engage with US counterparts and discuss Muslim communities and issues affecting them in the US and UK. The aim of the programme was therefore to […]
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The Bridging Beliefs Forums were a unique series of workshops across England with Holocaust survivors and survivors of the genocide of Bosnian Muslims in 2005. The Bridging Beliefs Forums were a unique series of talks that took place in Manchester, Leeds, London, Birmingham and Leicester. In a unique demonstration of togetherness, survivors of the Holocaust […]
Continue ReadingThanks Faith Matters could not have conducted activities during 2011 without the help and assistance of the following organisations and individuals: The Department for Communities and Local Government, Local faith institutions such as mosques, gurdwaras, churches and synagogues in areas such as Derby, Enfield, Haringey and Barnet, All those Muslim converts who took part in […]
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The period of January 2011 – December 2011 has seen a number of activities undertaken by Faith Matters with respect to four key areas. Our work in interfaith, conflict resolution, community cohesion / integration and preventing extremism has grown and engaged with larger sets of communities in the UK and within countries like Pakistan. In […]
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