🔥 CELEBRATE INTER FAITH WEEK: Your KS4 Resource Toolkit is READY! 🔥 Inter Faith Week (November 9–16) is approaching, and our RE partners have developed a powerful, comprehensive suite of resources to support Key Stage 4 in celebrating faith, belief, and community!

We're launching our first Inter Faith Week Poetry Competition! This year's theme is: Community: Together we serve. Students, reflect on how service brings people of different faiths and beliefs together. 🗓️ Deadline: Friday, 28th November 2025

URI UK MIDLANDS INTERFAITH CONFERENCE: DATE: Tuesday 12th November 2024 TiME: 17:00-21:00 VENUE: Frank Whittle Building, Coventry University REGISTER HERE; gofundme.com/f/support-inter…

Visit interfaithweek.org to register your activities and also find out whats happening in your area or online for #InterFaithWeek 10 - 17 November, or to find ideas for quick plan activities if you'd like to mark it that way!

“The closure of the Inter Faith Network has resulted in the transfer of responsibility for Inter Faith Week 2024 to a group of inter-faith organisations. Together we will ensure that the Week continues, as a focus of interfaith activties that bring together diverse communities.”

RT @IFNetUK: WITHDRAWAL OF OFFER OF GOVERNMENT FUNDING The Co-Chairs of @IFNetUK have today received a letter from Secretary of State Rt Ho…

Including presentations on ‘Inter Faith Week as a platform for encouraging religious literacy’, with presentations from Jay Anderson, @leedsfaithforum and @ERosen62 of @BMFForum

LIKELY IMMINENT CLOSURE OF @IFNetUK The Board of the Inter Faith Network for the UK has, with great regret, taken an in principle decision to move towards closure of the organisation due to lack of funding. That closure will be confirmed, on 22 February unless by that time the £155,000 funding offered by the Government on 7 July 2023 for work from July 2023 to March 2024 is finally made available or other equivalent funds received. Two weeks remain to try and bring a resolution to this issue and enable IFN's work for #interfaith understanding and cooperation to continue. interfaith.org.uk/news/inter… #interfaith #cohesion #integration @NCVO @FaithActionNet @DSC_Charity

We continue to receive reports from organisations which took part in #InterFaithWeek and used it to help others and to strengthen #interfaith understanding and cooperation. Here's one from @CCJUK - CCJ by Dilara Eren - CCJ #Campus Leadership Programme 2023-24 published in CCJ's newsletter today. "During inter faith week, many societies collaborated together to create an interfaith panel event with a wide range of speakers. We started off with set questions and then opened it up to the floor. Everyone was really in tune and engaged, listening with real curiosity. The answers each speaker gave sparked more questions, which we could see on the mentimeter that so many people submitted questions! It was nice to learn about the core beliefs of each faith, and see how each speaker represented their faith differently e.g. through their experiences, texts, outfits etc. Overall I really enjoyed being a part of the panel as it showed unity and respect between the different faiths, and encouraged discussions during the breaks too where people were actively approaching others and asking questions!"

INTER FAITH WEEK PROJECT STORIES We continue to receive reports from organisations which took part in #InterFaithWeek and used it to help others and to strengthen #interfaith understanding and cooperation. Here's one from @emmanuel_house_, #Nottingham, that's just come in! "Inter Faith Week celebrates connections and understanding between #religious and #faith groups, focusing on shared learning and collaboration to help the local community. As Emmanuel House is a charity founded in faith, we thought it would be appropriate to get in touch with other faith-based groups that offer support, and band together during the week to provide food for those who are facing #homelessness . #SalaamShalom, a local #Muslim and #Jewish kitchen group [see photos] did a cooking session in the kitchen at Emmanuel House, serving a wonderful lasagne and garlic bread, and Sanatan Community Service, a #Hindu group which runs a #foodbank, cooked a delicious vegetarian curry at the Winter Shelter. We also made connections with @GuruMisssion, a #Sikh street outreach group and hope to collaborate with them in the future. All three groups have expressed a desire to work on regular food projects, throughout the year, with Emmanuel House and the Winter Night Shelter. #volunteering

To give a year-end gift to help deepen #interfaith understanding and cooperation in the UK visit: interfaith.org.uk/donate Donations are currently match-funded, doubling their value. Thank you in advance for your kind support.

If you follow @IFWeek you might also be interested to follow our main account, @IFNetUK, for year-round #interfaith stories, including items such as this one about #faith communities and reciprocal greetings and visits and times of #faith #festivals.

#InterFaithWeek is led and supported by @ifnetuk. If you appreciate the ways in which the Week helps increase understanding about different faiths and beliefs and strengthens connections between people of different backgrounds, please do support its work with a donation at interfaith.org.uk/donate Little or large - every gift helps and is appreciated and used to make a difference. Thank you!

#InterFaithWeek is @IFNetUK's largest programme, helping ever more people get involved in learning about different faiths and beliefs; making new connections; and volunteering together. IFN intern Louisa Hadari helped support the recent 2023 Week. Here, she talks about her experience: interfaithweek.org/news/blog… Find out more about the wider work of @IFNetUK at interfaith.org.uk. To support it with an end of year gift, visit interfaith.org.uk/donate! Photos: @TrentUni in whose IFW event Louisa took part. #interfaith #faith #universities #students

#InterFaithWeek 2023 came to a close last month. Here, we share an #InterFaithWeek blog by @IFNetUK's Project Assistant about the many exciting events in which he had the chance to take part: interfaithweek.org/news/blog… Photo credit: @UKBahaiOPA image of Inter Faith Week event at #Bahai head offices in London. Project Asst, second right.

Inter Faith Week 2023 came to a close last month. Here, we share a blog by Louisa Hadari, @IFNetUK 's #InterFaithWeek intern. In it she talks about how she helped support the Week and the great activities she had a chance to attend and to which she contributed. interfaithweek.org/news/blog…

A number of #poetry competitions were run by schools during #InterFaithWeek last month, such as this one by @ManorJuniors Did your #school also run one as part of adding to pupils' learning about different #faiths and #beliefs? Do share your winning poems! And please do take a few minutes to give us feedback on your experience of taking part in Inter Faith Week: smartsurvey.co.uk/s/IFW2023 @NATREupdate @NASACRE @WASACRE @reonline_tweets

A number of art and photography competitions were run by schools during #InterFaithWeek last month, such as this one by @FinhamParkRE. Did your #school or #college also run a competition or hold other kinds of activity to enrich pupils' learning about different faiths and beliefs? We'd love to see your pictures! And please do take a few minutes to give us feedback on your experience of taking part in the Week: smartsurvey.co.uk/s/IFW2023 @NATREupdate @NASACRE @WASACRE @reonline_tweets @RECouncil @educationgovuk