We will be running 5 interfaith dialogues between January and March 2017 at faith locations around Windsor & Maidenhead.

Please see the details below:

CLICK HERE to download the WAMCF 2017 Interfaith Dialogues PDF Brochure

The next Interfaith Dialogue will take place on Tuesday 28th February at Maidenhead Synagogue,

Grenfell Lodge, Ray Park Road, Maidenhead SL6 8QX. It starts at 7pm prompt until 8.30pm and

will be followed by refreshments. The topic we will discuss will be, ‘How can we become happy?’

Admission is free and everyone is welcome, whether of a particular faith or no faith.

Any enquiries please contact Paul Samuels on 07923 494744.

The WAMCF Youth Interfaith Concert will take place on Wednesday 8th February 2017 from

7pm – 9pm at SGI-UK Taplow Court, Berry Hill, Taplow, Maidenhead.

The Concert will feature acts from faith communities and school choirs and will run

for around 45 minutes followed by refreshments.

The next WAMCF Interfaith Dialogue is on Tuesday 14th February at St Mark’s Catholic Church, Dedworth

Road, Dedworth, Windsor SL4 4JS.

The topic is, ‘What advice would we give to our younger self?’ We will start prompt at 7pm until

around 830pm followed by refreshments.

Admission is free and car parking is available.

Visit Maidenhead Mosque this Sunday 5th February between 2pm – 4pm.

Mosques around the UK will be welcoming visitors and neighbours in the

second annual Visit My Mosque Day. The Islamic Trust Maidenhead would

like to welcome you again to attend a Mosque Open Day at Maidenhead

Mosque. This is a free event – for more details please contact 07427

109007 / 07773 230413 or by email info@maidenheadmosque.org

The next Interfaith Dialogue will be at the Gurdwara on Tuesday 31st January

from 7pm to 9pm.

We will dialogue in small groups on the topic:

‘What qualities do we most admire in others and why?’

Everyone is welcome regardless of faith or no faith.

Admission is free

The next WAMCF Women’s meeting is on Monday 23rd January at St Luke’s Church, Norfolk Road,

Maidenhead. The speaker invited is Gill Curry from the KORI project. The main aim of the KORI

project is to empower, enable and educate women and girls in Kori Chiefdom Sierra Leone. More

details can be found by googling KORI project.

The first of the WAMCF Interfaith Dialogues will take place on Tuesday 17th January at the SGI-UK Buddhist Centre, Taplow Court.

The event will run 7pm-8.30pm followed by refreshments. There is plenty of car park space at Taplow Court and directions to the SGI-UK Buddhist centre can be found by googling SGI-UK.

We will hold dialogues in small groups on the topic, ‘How much control do we have over our lives?’ The event is free and everyone is welcome, whether they are of a particular faith or no faith. For any enquiries please contact Paul Samuels on 07923 494744.

Religions for Peace UK has been preparing to set up the UK chapter of Interfaith Youth Network and our European colleagues have been most graciously helping us along the way. On the 3rd December, the culmination of a long period of preparation work reached maturity and the summit at Taplow Court organised by the European Interfaith Youth Network, and the event heralded the inception of the UK Interfaith Youth Network.

The summit included representatives from many faiths coming from UK, Italy, France, Germany, Bosnia Herzegovina, Serbia, Bulgaria, Finland, Poland, and Israel. The wealth of knowledge and dedication of these young people will contribute greatly to the building up of the UK chapter and we are looking forward very much to the continuation of formation work in 2017.

The Buddhist participant Gabrielle Westhead, representative from Soka Gakkai International-UK (SGI-UK) –  the lay Nichiren Buddhist organisation, writes:

The UK Interfaith Youth Network is still very much in its infancy, it is already a great cause for multireligious youth from organisations in the UK, including members of Soka Gakkai-UK, Coexister, Focolare, Guru Nanak Nishkam Sewak Jatha, National Hindu Student Forum UK, Pandava Sena and the Student Christian Movement UK, to unite and contribute to coexistence and peace here in the UK. It will develop its vision into the new year and invites UKreligious and interreligious youth organisations to consider joining the network.

More information on the Religions for Peace Website:  http://www.religionsforpeace.org.uk/

and RfP European Interfaith Youth Network Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/rfp.eiyn/

Please contact Gabrielle Westhead (gmwesthead@gmail.com) and/or Rupal Maru (rupalmaruc@gmail.com) for any enquiries.

The eighth annual Interfaith Week ran from Sunday 13th November to Sunday 20 November.

The Interfaith Network for the UK leads on the Week, and its Co-Chairs, Bishop Richard Atkinson and Jatinder Singh Birdi have said:

“The 500+ events that have taken part around the UK have sent a powerful signal about people of different faiths and beliefs working together for the good of our shared society and about the importance of positive interfaith relations. The Week has also highlighted the enormous contribution that those of all faith and belief communities make – in most cases through volunteering – to their local communities.”

The Week has seen an astonishing range of events and activities: multi faith remembrance events; faith trails and open door days; conferences and seminars on topics from tackling hate crime,  to health and faith, and  different faiths’ and beliefs’ understandings of particular issues; social action initiatives from help for refugees and the homeless to river cleaning and tree planting; football matches; music, dance, poetry and arts and craft workshops; school activities; quizzes; the launch of new initiatives; cookery sessions; exchange visits between places of worship of different faiths; a youth ‘Interfaith Summit’; blog series; exhibitions; photographic and art competitions; campus programmes; dialogues on a wide range of topics; celebrations; and more.

Faith communities have taken part across the UK.  They have hosted those of other faiths, journeyed with each other to visit each other’s places of worship; discussed responses to the challenging issues of the moment; contributed to social action projects to help their local communities; and taken active roles in civic and other markings of the Week.  Locally, an increasing number of churches, gurdwaras, mandirs, mosques, synagogues, temples and viharas have thrown open their doors. People of non-religious beliefs have also been actively involved in many events.

Interfaith organisations have also played a significant role in the Week, from the UK’s 250+ local interfaith groups, through to national interfaith bodies. A special event held at the Houses of Parliament by the All Party Parliamentary Interfaith Group with the Interfaith Network for the UK  on Tuesday 15 November explored local interfaith work and the importance of local interfaith bodies with inputs from Interfaith Glasgow, Faith Network for Manchester and the Redbridge Faith Forum. There was cross-party participation in the Week at both national and local levels.  Both Communities Secretary Sajid Javid and Communities Minister Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth attended events.