One of the very best ways to meet local people from different religious traditions – or none – walking and talking together, discovering the unexpected.
South London Inter Faith Group has been encouraging local inter faith walks for years.
This year, all the south London boroughs and some in north London are organising inter faith walks on the weekend of 14th – 15th July.
Join in or organise your own!
As the world looks at London this summer, HOPE not Hate encourages us to celebrate modern Britain – a kaleidoscope of colours and cultures. Get together with your neighbours, schools, places of worship, community organisations and plan a delicious meal. Britain Tastes Great is looking for dishes that define modern Britain – add your own!
For the really adventurous, people can host their own event. This can be a house party, a picnic in the park or in the local community centre. We’ll be encouraging churches, mosques, temples and local sports centres to open their doors to the local community and share food.
The new website is now up – lots of recipes, map of event and much more – Britain Tastes Great.
The Ramadan Festival will bring together people from different faiths (and none). They will eat supper and break the fast together in a local mosque during the month of Ramadan. They will share the atmosphere that is created at such a special time of year for Muslims.
Ramadan is a time of giving, of charity, of sharing, of remembering those in need and reaching out.
These are all qualities embodied by the Olympics too and we are excited to be able to combine those at the same time this year.
All eyes will be on the UK and especially on London. It gives all of us the chance to showcase the fantastic diversity that we celebrate and hold so dearly in Great Britain.
This year Ramadan falls between 20th July and 19th August, although the exact dates depend on the sighting of the moon.
If your mosque would like to take part, please contact the Islamic Society of Britain. The Ramadan Festival is part of the 2012 Hours Against Hate coalition.
Thinking of installing a knife amnesty bin in your local area?
Contact people who have already done it – and your borough police: Barking and Dagenham Faith Forum and Word4Weapons.
Find your borough police here.
Mark the International Day of Peace by celebrating the peace-making which is taking place in your local community – in partnership with your local mosque, by raising awareness about violence against women and girls, or in any other way.
Over the last 10 years, Peace Day has been proved as an opportunity for life-saving activities and action by individuals worldwide.
For Peace Day 21 September 2012, Peace One Day is calling for and working towards a day of ceasefire and non-violence - the Global Truce 2012 campaign.
We hope that this will be the largest global reduction of violence ever recorded on one day – and the largest ever gathering of individuals in the name of peace.
We are asking people around the world to pledge their time to stop hate – to do something for someone who doesn’t look like you, pray like you, or live like you.
2012 Hours Against Hate is a campaign to stop bigotry and promote pluralism and respect across lines of culture, religion, tradition, class, and gender.
Find out more at https://www.facebook.com/2012HoursAgainstHate and get in touch with www.faithsforum4london.org for a unique experience of volunteering.
A Year of Service highlights the voluntary service that people of faith carry out in their local communities, forging links between volunteers.
Throughout 2012 there are 12 Days of Volunteering, each coinciding with a religious festival or existing volunteering day, and each focusing on a particular social action theme.
Each faith community in turn is promoting its own day or days in neighbourhoods and businesses, and inviting people from other faiths or without religious beliefs to join in.
Talk to the experts at St Ethelburga’s or use the resources online to enable the young people of your community to realise what valuable skills they have.
Lots of activities and ideas for encouraging 11-18 year olds to refuse the use of violence by harnessing the strength and wisdom within their faith – and by learning from other faiths too.
The banner in St Martin’s during the night vigil. Each dove represented one of the competing nations coming to London for the 2012 Games.
Barry and Margaret Mizen of Release The Peace, Week of Peace‘s Pastor Nims Obunge and Helen Gilbert of St Ethelburga’s Centre for Peace and Reconciliation were amongst the speakers at the Peace Vigil at St Martin in the Fields on Friday night.
Download the London Peace Network insert in the service booklet here – the online version has all the links. Or visit the Events page for more information on all the items listed.
Encouraging young people to be positive forces within their communities, including, on 28th of October, the fantastic Release the Peace concert, rewarding young people for their work promoting peace within their communities.
This new interactive display at the Imperial War Museum looks at the concepts of truce, conflict and resolution and how they are relevant to us in the twenty-first century.
Watch and listen to a 10 minute compelling soundtrack of eyewitness interviews set against footage from the locations themselves, including Sierra Leone, Kosovo and Northern Ireland.
The stories offer different perspectives from medics, aid workers and civilians, revealing our sometimes unpredictable responses to conflict and challenging our preconceptions about truce.
Visit the Open Day on 21-22 September to celebrate World Peace Day.
London Peace Network 