One Town, One Community Cohesion Day: Rotherham

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 […]

Resisting Through Resilience Programme in the London Borough of Enfield

This 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 […]

Developing Diversity Directory – Women Friendly Mosques in England

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 […]

Cohesive Communities – Bridging Divides between Muslim and Sikh Communities

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 […]

Living Islam Out Loud

This 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 […]

The Forums Project – Bridging Beliefs Forums Project

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 […]

Thanks

Thanks 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 […]

Director’s Report – Fiyaz Mughal OBE FCMI

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 […]

About us – Faith Matters

Faith Matters launched in 2006 as a vehicle to enable faith communities to reduce conflict using conflict resolution tools. Faith Matters works on integration, cohesion, hate crime and countering extremism projects.

Faith Matters has also influenced social policy at local, regional and governmental levels through its research reports. Faith Matters has been ground-breaking and instrumental in developing new and innovative projects that bring faith communities together and in strengthening faith institutions.

Sikh and Muslim Media Monitoring Project

The Sikh and Muslim Media Monitoring group regularly meets in Ealing and has been looking at key themes that have included (i) the EDL and its attempts to drive a wedge between Muslim and Sikh communities in England (ii) Outreach by the EDL towards Black and Minority Ethnic communities in order to promote the false […]