Inter Faith Week 2009

Photographs of National Inter Faith Week Launch Event at County Hall, Monday 16th November.

Canon Paul Hackwood, Chair of the Inter Faith Forum for Leicestershire

Resham Singh Sandhu (Vice Chair of the Inter Faith Forum for Leicestershire), Councillor Roger Blackmore (Lord Mayor of Leicester) and Mr Roger Wilson (Chairman of Leicestershire County Council)

Mrs Manjula Sood (Chair of the Leicester Council of Faiths), the Right Reverend Tim Stevens (Bishop of Leicester) and Resham Singh Sandhu

Women of Inter-Faith: Sheila Markham (Jewish Community), Minou Cortazzi (Bahai Community), Smita Shah (Jain Community), Seema Ahmad (Muslim Community)

Presentation from keynote speaker Dr Maureen Sier (Interfaith Development Officer for the Scottish Interfaith Council)

Presentation from Sughra Ahmed (Executive Committee Member of the UK Inter Faith Network and Senior Researcher at the Islamic Foundation, Leicester)

Atheah Ghani (Development Officer, Faith Forum for the East Midlands)

Dr Albert Mosley (Leicester Faiths Group Supporting Asylum Seekers and Refugees)

Vice Chair of the Inter Faith Forum, Resham Singh Sandhu addresses the audience

Musical performance by talented Leicester musician Na'im Cortazzi

Photographs of Community members signing the Inter Faith Charter

Launch Event attendees visiting the display area (photographs 1 & 2)

Mr and Mrs Wilson and Mrs Blackmore

Launch Event attendees visiting the display area (photograph 3)

Julian Harrison ( Community Planning Manager, Leicestershire County Council), Resham Singh Sandhu and Rich Keenan (Leicestershire Constabulary)

The Inter Faith Charter - signed by all attendees at the Launch Event