From 12.15pm on Tues 25 December 2012

Open to anyone who is homeless or just alone on Christmas Day with no-one else to celebrate with.  Couples and small families welcome.

There is no fixed charge but donations can be made on the day.

Please book by 16 December

If you would like to volunteer, help is needed with transport, cooking, serving, clearing away and organising carol singing and games.

Email:  allsaintsburton@btinternet.com or leave a message on 01283 544091

The lunch will be free but donations are welcome.

For further information please contact Elaine Marriott: Tel : 01283 213766 Email : Elaine@marioshouse.co.uk

3rd December 2012

11am

Church Gresley Methodist Church, York Road, Church Gresley, Swadlincote, DE11 9QQ

Hymns

“O Come All Ye Faithful”

“In The Bleak Midwinter”

“Silent Night “

“O Little Town Of Bethlehem”

”Good Christians All Rejoice”

Tea And Mince Pies!  Wonderful Uplifting Feeling!

RSVP: Confirm your attendance with Lisa Barker from Derbyshire Carers Association. Ring: 01283 212194

See http://www.cte.org.uk/Publisher/Article.aspx?ID=318493

As a service Churches Together in England also have a web page containing web-ready photos free for churches to use: http://www.cte.org.uk/photos

[Thanks to Faith in Action Derby Diocese for this information]

This service is for people who think they have been discriminated against or treated less favourably by their employer or service provider on the grounds their age, disability, gender, race, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion or belief.

Consumer discrimination

This covers goods and services provided by public, voluntary and private/commercial sector service providers, (e.g. council services, charities, shops and banks).

 Employment discrimination

This includes discrimination in: recruitment, changes to working hours, requests for time off, pay, benefits, training, promotion, transfers, dismissals, redundancies, retirement and failing to make reasonable adjustments.

 Download a poster:

Discrimination Advice Poster (PDF, 42KB)

Small Grants Programme for events organised by and for young people focussed around Inter Faith Week 18-27 November 2012

Grants are awarded for proposals for inter-faith activities by children and young people from Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Sikh and other faiths and those of no formal faith in understanding and co-operation. The age range for young people is 11-25 years.

Priority will be given to projects which:

• Actively involve young people in planning, running, and evaluation of the project.
• Promote positive action i.e. young people from different backgrounds coming together to address shared problems like improving green spaces.
• Are run by non-statutory organisations, such as youth clubs, scout/guide groups, local voluntary and community organisations.

Grants can provide part-funding. Grants are not available for converting young people to a different faith.

The Inter Faith Youth Trust (Alma Royalton-Kisch Trust) is the only UK charitable trust solely to fund inter faith projects for young people.

Deadline for applications: 14 September 2012

Full details at: http://www.ifyouthtrust.org.uk/

“How do we befriend death? Reflections on Assisted Dying”

Dr James Woodward

 Monday 30th April 2012 at 7.30pm

In the Retro Choir of Derby Cathedral

Dr Woodward will introduce the topic, there will be time for Q&A, then drinks in the Cavendish Area.

The issue is highly topical. The Falconer Commission recently recommended a change to the present law in this area. The General Synod of the Church of England strongly rejected that recommendation. But the issue remains raw for many families and for some working professionally in this area.

James Woodward is a Canon of St George’s Chapel Windsor, an accomplished author on issues to do with ageing, death and spirituality. He has been a senior hospital chaplain.

The evening is being sponsored by the Montgomery Trust, and is open to all.

RSVP by 25th April 2012 to lucille@derbycathedral.org

Guest Speakers:

•  Dr Musharraf Hussain – Seminar Topic: Christian Muslim Relation. President of the Christian Muslim Forum. Director of the Karimia Institute in Nottingham.
• Idris Watts – Seminar Topic: Is there a need for religion? First class honours in Arabic language, continued further studies in the famous Qarawiyeen University in the Old City of Fez

 Date: Saturday 14th April 2012

Time: 12.15pm to 3.30pm

Venue: The Multi-Faith Centre, Derby

Limited places available so book early to avoid disappointment For more information or to book your place please contact the Reflection Project

Tel: 07837085453 or

email intothelight@reflectionproject.co.uk

The Multi-Faith Centre through its European project will be providing a series of free one-day experiential workshops delivering training on Religious Diversity and Anti-Discrimination, addressing specific issues of ‘Islamophobia’.  The workshop sessions are designed to identify and tackle Islamophobic religious discrimination and other forms of Muslim discrimination.

 Training Dates

23rd May 2012 – Derby Voluntary Sector

20th June 2012 – Regional Voluntary Sector

9.30am-4.30pm at the  Multi-Faith Centre, Derby

To book your place please download and complete a booking form and e-mail back to mfc@derby.ac.uk

or post to Multi-Faith Centre, University of Derby, Keldeston Road, Derby, DE22 1GB

Download course flyer:

Overcoming Islamophobia Course Flyer

Download booking form:

Overcoming Islamophobia Booking Form

It is thought that 90% of hate crime goes unreported. The Regional Equality & Diversity Partnership (REDP) would like to collect views on the support and information available for victims of hate crime. We are looking at those incidents which are motivated by a prejudice towards age, disability, gender or gender identity, race, religion or belief or sexual orientation.  The findings will be presented at a conference on hate crime on 17th May 2012.

Could you or your members/users spare a few minutes of your time to take part in the survey? Deadline for responses 30 March 2012.

Complete online at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/hatecrime2012

Or for hard copies/other formats contact Carolyn Pascoe, Regional Equality and Diversity Partnership Researcher

Tel:0116 285 9440

Email: carolyn.pascoe@lcil.org.uk

• Self Help groups, advice, training, and employment; to support people with a mental illness or learning difficulties and their carers (parents etc.).
• Respite care and holidays (in the UK only).   Grants for holidays are given where there is a large element of respite care and only to registered charitiesnot to individuals.
• Organisations helping and supporting refugees and asylum-seekers coming to or who are in the UK.
• The restoration (not “improvement”) of churches of architectural importance (half a page in Pevsner’s buildings and occasionally to other buildings of architectural importance. The church should be open to visitors every day.

More information and details of how to apply can be found on the trust’s website: www.jill-franklin-trust.org.uk

From: Derby City Holocaust Memorial Day Working Party.

Further information: Collette Flood, tel. 01332 255483 Anne Johns 01332 764792

In 2001, the first Holocaust Memorial Day was held to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust in World War 2. The date was 27 January, the day on which Auschwitz was liberated, and it has been held on that date annually ever since. Over the years the commemorations have included other genocides, such as those in Darfur, Rwanda, Somalia, Ukraine and Srebrenica; and not just the Jewish race but others, too, who were targets of Hitler’s hate – Gypsies, Jehovah’s Witnesses, the disabled (both physically and mentally), homosexuals, intellectuals – in fact anyone who was perceived as ‘different’ or who did not toe the party line.

In 2012, 27 January, falls on a Friday. Jewish preparations for the Sabbath (Saturday) begin on Friday at dusk, which falls early at that time of year. Therefore, out of respect to the Jewish community Derby is keeping Thursday 26 January as Holocaust Memorial Day, though there are also events on other days during that week. Once again we have first class survivor speakers prepared to tell us their stories and answer our questions.

Simon Winston, who, as a young child with his parents and younger brother, lived on the run from the Nazis for two years, will be speaking both at the Multi-faith Centre and as our key-note speaker on the Thursday evening. Simon, who only began to talk about his experiences when Beth Shalom, the National Holocaust Centre, opened near Newark, is now an experienced and sought-after survivor speaker with an extraordinary and moving story to tell. (Biography below)

Derby citizen Bernard Grunberg, our keynote speaker last year, will again be talking about the Kindertransport, the trains which brought thousands of Jewish children, including Bernard, out of mainland Europe to England just before the outbreak of war; and Stephen Mendelsson, also a highly experienced Kindertransportee speaker but with a very different story from Bernard’s, will answer questions from the audience after both showings of the film ‘Into the Arms of Strangers.’

Below is a calendar of Derby’s Holocaust Memorial events for January 2012, correct at time of going to press; but any additions will be advertised in the local media and on the HMD website:

All events are free, unless otherwise indicated, though booking is required for some; and everything listed is open to all.

Tuesday 24 January: 9.15am, QUAD, Market Place, Derby. ‘Into the Arms of Strangers’, the award-winning documentary about the Kindertransport. Includes both contemporary and more recent footage, and is followed by a Q&A session with Kindertransportee Stephen Mendelsson. Booking essential, via QUAD box office, tel 01332 290606

Wednesday 25 January: 1.30pm, Allestree Library. Bernard Grünberg, Derby’s 2011 keynote speaker, is back by popular request. Cost: Free, booking essential. Book your place at http://hmd.eventbrite.co.uk/  For more information telephone 01332 559761 or email allestree.library@derby.gov.uk  Donations are invited to The Holocaust Centre at Laxton, Nottinghamshire www.holocaustcentre.net

Thursday 26 January:

11.00am– Multi-faith Centre, Universityof Derby, Kedleston Road.  Talk by Simon Winston followed by a Q & A session.

2.00pm– Bridge Chapel, Sowter Road.  Quiet meditation, followed by

 2.30pm– stone setting (Jewish memorial custom) at the trees dedicated to Olga Nahlak and Anne Frank, opposite the Bridge Chapel. Everyone is invited to set stones, which will be provided at the site. Olga saved a family of Jews by hiding them under her floorboards. She later moved to Derby. Her story will be available in the chapel.

 3.00pm–Bosnian Centre, Queen St. Bosnian/Ukrainian/Traveller holocaust/genocide exhibition, with special guests senior Bosnian and Ukrainian diplomats as special guests. Complimentary refreshments will be served. (Similar exhibition in the cathedral all week.)

6.00pm(– c6.40 pm) Multi-faith service of commemoration at the cathedral, followed by time to get straight to QUAD and find a seat for

7.00pm–7.40pm Performances at QUAD by Ukrainian, Bosnian, Traveller and Jewish community members, all representing groups of victims of genocide. Followed by

7.45pm Keynote Speaker :Simon Winston, followed by a Q&A session with Simon. Booking essential via QUAD (01332 290606). Simon’s biography below:

Friday 27 January:

9.15am- QUAD, Market Place, Derby. Film: ‘Into the Arms of Strangers’. Details as for Tuesday 24 January, above. The Mayor of Derby will attend this showing.

12.30pm- Derby Cathedral: short service of commemoration.

4.00pm- Multi-faith Centre, University of Derby, Kedleston Road: Premier showing of’Three Stories of Galicia’, a film about three courageous individuals. Trapped between Hitler & Stalin, a Ukrainian woman, a Polish Priest and a Jewish man risked everything to save lives. Further information at http://www.threestoriesofgalicia.com/  There may be a retiring collection to defray expenses.

Contact us: The Multi-Faith Centre at the University of Derby, Kedleston Road, Derby, DE22 1GB Phone: 01332 591285 Email: mfc@derby.ac.uk Website: www.multifaithcentre.org

The national Holocaust Memorial Day website is at: http://hmd.org.uk/

• Strengthening good inter faith relations at all levels
• Increasing awareness of the different and distinct faith communities in the UK, in particular celebrating and building on the contribution which their members make to their neighbourhoods and to wider society
• Increasing understanding between people of religious and non-religious beliefs

Inter Faith Week Quiz – Test Your Knowledge

To celebrate and raise awareness of Inter Faith Week the Development Team at South Derbyshire CVS are offering you the chance to test your knowledge and win a fabulous (sorry we mean small!) prize.

Just spend a few minutes answering 18 questions which are all based on faiths represented in South Derbyshire and the surrounding areas.  We will publish the answers at the end of Inter Faith Week.

Go to: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/interfaithquiz

Events at the Multi Faith Centre at the University of Derby

Sunday 20 November: Exploring a Journey of Self: A Day of Meditation

10am-3.00pm at the Multi Faith Centre

Join the Centre Team in a ‘Meditation Day’. The programme explores a journey of self-investigation and discovery. Regardless of experience this event is aimed at bringing some fundamental principles of meditation to participants in a relaxed and well-paced approach to understanding what makes us tick as human beings. Cost: £20. There is a limit of 20 places so please book early to avoid disappointment.

Tuesday 22 November: E-Learning and Spirituality: What can we learn from the internet?

6.30pm-8.00pm at the Multi Faith Centre

Dr Helen Phillpott is a Clinical Psychologist working in the Derbyshire Healthcare Foundation NHS Trust. Helen is part of the Trust’s Spirituality Steering Group and has led the development of a Spirituality e-learning module, aimed at raising awareness of the concept of spirituality and its applicability to day-to-day life for service users. Helen will present some of the background work that has gone into its development and give an overview of the e-learning module. Free of Charge, All Welcome

Thursday 24 November: Conversations Across Faiths: How important is Faith in communities?

7.00pm-9.00pm at the Multi Faith Centre

A chance to discuss with people from different faith perspectives, whether you think faith can or should play a part in communities. Free of Charge, All Welcome

These events are at the Multi Faith Centre at the University of Derby, Kedleston Road, Derby , DE22 1GB. For more information and details of how to book go to

http://www.multifaithcentre.org/events

Charity Lunch – Lichfield – 27 November

To celebrate National Inter Faith Week, a special Charity Lunch has been organised in the historic cathedral city of Lichfield to help those affected by the East Africa food crisis and the earthquake in Turkey

Sunday 27th November 2011 at 12.45pm, Raj Duth Restaurant, 21 St John Street, Lichfield, Staffordshire WS13 6NU. Ticket Price: £20.00 (Sold in advance)

For further information contact: Mohammed Jamil MA (Event Organiser) – Tel: 07939 181676 E-mail: mo-jam@hotmail.com

Download poster:

Inter Faith Week Charity Lunch Poster

More information about Inter Faith Week

More information, including events all over the UK, can be found at:

http://www.interfaithweek.org/

If you have an Inter Faith Week event please let us know and we will add it to the Blog.

Based at Ashe Hall in Etwall, the Centre offers a programme of meditation classes including day and evening drop-in sessions in Etwall, Burton and other locations around Derbyshire and Staffordshire.
There are also weekend and day retreats for both beginners and more experienced meditators. The World Peace Café at is open Tue to Sun and sells hot drinks, home-made cakes and light lunches.

For more information visit http://www.taracentre.org.uk  email meditate@taracentre.org.uk  or telephone 01283 732338