All Faiths Network Dialogue · Community · UK

Ordinary gatherings, on purpose

We keep our programme simple and repeatable: regular dialogue, shared festivals, practical projects, and a standing offer to support any community going through a hard time. Here's what runs through a typical year.

The regular programme

What's on through the year

1stEvery Month

Faiths & Friends Supper

A shared meal hosted in rotation by a different congregation or community hall, with dietary needs of every tradition catered for. No agenda beyond good food and good conversation.

Open to all
MayAnnual

Festival Trail Weekend

Several places of worship open their doors on the same weekend, with short talks, tours and refreshments. A gentle way to see inside a building you've walked past for years.

Family friendly
TermTime

Schools Speaker Panel

Volunteers from different traditions visit local schools to answer students' questions about belief, practice and daily life — part of the religious education and citizenship curriculum.

By invitation
3rdSaturday

Interfaith Walking Group

A gentle two-hour walk through local parks and green spaces, ending at a different café each time. A low-key way to get to know people without the pressure of a formal event.

All welcome
WinterSeason

Light in Winter Concert

A community choir made up of singers from several traditions performs songs of light and hope drawn from different winter festivals, in a joint concert open to the whole community.

Ticketed, low cost
24hrStanding

Community Solidarity Response

If any local place of worship or community group faces hostility, vandalism, or crisis, network members organise a rapid, visible show of support — a vigil, a clean-up, or simply turning up.

Ongoing

Practical projects

Alongside the recurring calendar, members run smaller projects as need and enthusiasm allow: a joint food-bank collection rota shared between congregations, a befriending scheme for isolated older residents, and an occasional oral-history project recording local memories of migration and settlement.

Projects are proposed at our quarterly open meetings and run by whichever volunteers want to take them on. If you have an idea that fits our aim of building understanding through shared activity, we'd like to hear it.

New to this? Start with a Faiths & Friends Supper — it's the lowest-pressure way in, and most of our long-standing friendships began at one. Bring nothing but yourself and a question or two.