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Bristol Multi-Faith Forum hosted the Love Your Neighbour Awards ceremony from 6 pm to 9 pm on Tuesday 13 November 2018 at Bristol Rovers Football Club Memorial Stadium (Thatcher’s Suite, Horfield, Bristol, BS7 0BF).  The ceremony and our AGM were held as part of the National Inter-Faith Week.

We had asked for nominations in the following categories:

Promoting inclusion

Improving access to services

Health and wellbeing

Peace and reconciliation

Faith and creative arts

Youth

Interfaith relations

We received over forty nominations! For a full list of all our nominees, along with their ‘nomination stories’, please see our programme here

See photos from the evening here

Our invited guests were:

* Mr Tim Bowles – West of England Combined Authority Mayor

* Deputy Chief Constable Sarah Crew, Avon & Somerset Police

* Mr Adam Tutton – Chief Executive Officer of the Community Trust at Bristol Rovers

The evening was a huge success. As well as the ceremony itself, we had live entertainment from Dildar Singh and his band RSVP – and a vegetarian buffet was served.  After this, people were free to network and socialise.

Thank you to Bristol Rovers Football Club for hosting and sponsoring the evening. The Awards were organised in partnership with Community Access Support Service (CASS), Rethink Mental Illness Bristol, LinkAge Network, Bristol Community Development Team and Counter Extremism Team of Bristol City Council.

Photo of members of our steering group with three invited guest speakers, Mr Tim Bowles,  Deputy Chief Constable Sarah Crew, and  Mr Adam Tutton.

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This free event took place from 9.30 am to 1.30 pm. People could walk the whole trail or join one or more parts of this trail, visiting the Bristol Hindu Temple, the Bristol Bahai Centre, the Bristol Central Mosque and the Bristol and West Progressive Synagogue.

Each visit lasted roughly 45 minutes and walks between venues were about 10 to 20 minutes long.

Start Location: Hindu Temple – 163 Church Road, Bristol, BS5 9LA

End Location: Bristol & West Progressive Synagogue, 43/47 Bannerman Rd, Bristol BS5 0RR

Distance: 2.5 miles

Duration: 1 hr walking/4 hr event in total with visits

Joint organisers were Bristol Multi Faith Forum and Inner City and East Bristol Health Team

It was really well attended, with 18 to 24 walkers joining, including the then Lord Mayor, Councillor Cleo Lake.

The majority of walkers had no faith, 3 “kind of” and none of the walkers had been into the Bahai centre or other venues before.

Some comments

·         “It’s the first time in my life I’ve seen a Torah”

·         Especially a Torah from that survived the 2^nd world war!”

·         “It has been really informative and healthy at the same time”

·         “It was really fascinating to learn and visit different religious buildings and learn about similarity (in faiths), we need to keep such connections”

·         Excellent, would be nice to see more young people during term”

·         “ Thanks very much for oyur hospitality and presentations, I would definitely encourage others ot participate in future events”

·         “Really interesting introduction to different faith communities. A chance to wander some little known streets too”

See photos from the day here

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See the Trail details here

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Our annual conference looked at ‘The Role of Faith Communities in Tackling Hate Crime’. It was held on Tuesday 21 November 2017 at Barton Hill Settlement and our key note speaker was Alex Raikes, Director (Strategic) of SARI. You can see a gallery of photos from the event here . You can read our latest Annual Report for the year 2016 – 2017 here. Full notes from the Conference will be available here shortly. For any further information please contact our Development Officer Lily Khandker: info@bristolmultifaithforum.org.uk or call 07789 040267 (mobile)

Our annual conference looked at ‘The Role of Faith Communities in Tackling Hate Crime’. It was held on Tuesday 21 November 2017 at Barton Hill Settlement and our key note speaker was Alex Raikes, Director (Strategic) of SARI. You can see a gallery of photos from the event here . You can read our latest Annual Report for the year 2016 – 2017 here. Full notes from the Conference will be available here shortly. For any further information please contact our Development Officer Lily Khandker: info@bristolmultifaithforum.org.uk or call 07789 040267 (mobile)

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