Concord Interfaith Fellowship

Next Concord event:

Monday 25th July, 7.30pm at GNNSJ Gurdwara, 78 Ladypit Lane, Beeston, LS11 6DP

Holy Places in Sikhism

Talk by Bhagat Singh

Vegetarian food and drinks will be available in the langar from 6.30 to 7.15pm.

Car parking is available.

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Meeting ID: 820 9241 1533
Passcode: 290394

Next partner event (Breaking Down Barriers Project (LMYF)):

West Park Trail and Meal - 13th July 6pm

An interactive wellbeing walk aiming to bring people from Kirkstall, Hyde Park and Weetwood together on a route to explore places of social & religious significance, as well as picturesque green spaces in West Park. It is open to all of faith or none. This has been supported with funding from Wellsprings together and organised by young people from the Breaking Down Barriers Project (LMYF),in LS8.

Start at the Brahma Kumari Admin Centre: 241 Otley ROAD, Weetwood LS16 5LQ

We aim to walk for 45 mins-1hr along a short route, mapped here, stopping at various points to enjoy music, meditation and conversation starters and short introductions from local groups.

This will then lead to a light meal & refreshments at 7:15pm alongside an interactive presentation at the Catholic Church of the Assumption on 129 Spen Lane.

Guests are welcome to use the free car park at the Catholic church and walk up to the starting point (15 mins away).

Please RSVP Maaslam2015@gmail.com if you and friends wish to attend either/both the walk and meal. Please state any dietary requirements too.

Mohammed Adam Aslam, Freelance Youth & Community Development worker (Ind.) Chaplain, Educator & facilitator Tel: 07475976745

Concord stall at the Interfaith day at Ralph Thoresby High School, July 16th (Click to enlarge)

Welcome

Concord is one of the oldest interfaith groups in the UK, founded over 40 years ago. It exists to foster friendship, trust, tolerance, understanding and co-operation among members of the faith communities of multi-cultural Leeds.

The group also works closely with the Leeds Faith Forum and is affiliated to the national Interfaith Network for the UK.
Some of the faiths Concord brings together:
Baha'is, Brahma Kumaris, Buddhists, Christians, Hindus, Jews, Muslims, Pagans, Sikhs and others.

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Its aims are:

to advance public knowledge and mutual understanding of the teachings, traditions and practices of the different faith communities in the Leeds Metropolitan District, and to nurture respect and friendly relations by facilitating interfaith dialogue and organising educational and cultural events;
to promote and to work for justice, peace and social harmony for the public benefit in the multi-cultural Leeds Metropolitan District by advocacy, by focused public events and projects, and by co-operating with other organisations that have similar objectives.

AGM 2021

The AGM this year was hold as an-person meeting at the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir in Burley and on a live Zoom link.

The existing officers and executive members were reelected, with just two changes: Jay Anderson has been appointed Co-Chair and John Moreton has joined the Executive as a Christian representative.

Jay Jay is well-known to Concord members as the host of our Zoom meetings, and more widely in Leeds interfaith circles as Secretary of the Leeds Faiths Forum.

We have lost three much valued members during the year: Iby Knill, survivor of Auschwitz, died at Easter; David Randolph-Horn and Primrose Agbamu have moved away from Leeds. We miss them all.

Thanks were expressed to our Treasurer, Stephen Tucker, to Jay, to Cynthia our Minutes Secretary, to the Committee Members, and to John Summerwill, Co-Chair.

Click here for the AGM Papers

Light for Leeds 2021

Sunday November 21 was a bright, sunny day for the Light for Leeds Interfaith Week event in Kirkstall Abbey's visitor centre. There were display stands by the Christian, Sikh, Muslim, Brahma Kumari and Pagan faiths as well as Concord and Leeds Faiths Forum. As a Covid-19 precaution numbers in the centre were limited and it was recommended that face-masks were worn.

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12th Century Monks in Leeds: a spirituality for today?

The Visitors’ Centre at Kirkstall Abbey was the ideal location for a talk on the relevance today of 12th century monastic ideals, and the Right Honourable John Battle was the ideal person to give it. John is a former MP who was responsible for interfaith matters in Tony Blair’s government. He has a keen interest in community relationships in Leeds and a longstanding fascination also with the history of Leeds and particularly its spirituality.

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Fun on the Water: Namaste Fund’s First Project

Breaking Down Barriers, a project of the Leeds Muslim Youth Forum, aims to empower young people across Harehills to come together to organise activities that challenge racial tensions, misconceptions of the other and foster friendships. This project, supported by National Lottery funding, began in July.

In October a group of these young people had a canal boat trip sponsored by the Namaste Fund.

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Annual Peace Service - 13th Oct 2021

Did you miss the Peace Service? You can catch up with the content on these links: Click here for: Order of Service | Click here for full script | Click here for a video recording

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