Camden Faith Communities Partnership

Registered Charity: 1138190

Welcome to the website of the Camden Faith Communities Partnership. This website is under construction, so please visit us again soon.

The CFCP was founded in 2003 by faith communities throughout the London Borough of Camden as a wholly independent interfaith body, working in collaboration with other interfaith and faith-based groups, Camden Council, and other statutory agencies. The charitable objects of the CFCP are the promotion of religious harmony for the benefit of the public, and the CFCP brings together all people of faith from Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim, Sikh and Zoroastrian and other religious communities across Camden, to promote mutual understanding and respect for our religious differences and common ground.

The CFCP is also a member body of the Inter Faith Network for the United Kingdom (Registered Charity: 1068934), the national interfaith representative body, and the CFCP also collaborates with other interfaith organisations, such as Scriptural Reasoning and the Imams and Rabbis Council of the United Kingdom.

Objectives and Past Activities

The Camden Faith Communities Partnership has had an enormous impact upon the London Borough of Camden in promoting religious harmony for public benefit. We aim to educate the public in different religious faiths and we have achieved this by a number of educational initiatives:

• The Camden Faith Communities Partnership of people from different faiths in the borough, meets regularly in Camden Town Hall and different places of worship, and undertakes lectures and discussion of matters of religious differences and common ground in order better to understand one another's beliefs and faith communities. The CFCP in particular is the core founder of Scriptural Reasoning in the borough, the practice of members of the public of different faiths meeting together to read and study their sacred texts, in order to educate the public in different religious faiths and their differences and common ground. We contributed this programme of Scriptural Reasoning to the British Library's "Sacred Exhibition" of 2007, looking at the sacred texts of Christianity, Judaism and Islam. In partnership with the London Borough of Camden, the CFCP published "Neighbours", a directory of faith communities in Camden, and their religious beliefs.

The CFCP aims also to build mutual understanding and respect between different faiths by encouraging social interaction through our regular meetings and study, and organising programmes of interfaith celebration together:

• The Camden Faith Communities Partnership has been pivotal in promoting understanding and mutual respect between people of different faiths in the borough. After the terrorist attacks in London in 2005, which particularly affected Camden where some of the bombings took place, the CFCP initiated a whole day of celebration and religious diversity in Russell Square, with music, dance, food and social interaction by people of diverse faiths. We promote respect for religious difference through our past contributions for National Inter Faith Week, such as the interfaith walk together by people of diverse faiths.

General Meetings

The General Meetings of the Camden Faith Communities Partnership are the heart of our engagement and are an inclusive, democratic and egalitarian forum which is open to representatives of all places of worship and faith-based organisations within the London Borough of Camden.

These General Meetings are where faith leaders and representatives of diverse places of worship and faith-based groups meet democratically to discuss and decide our common social action within Camden. The meetings take place quarterly at Camden Town Hall.

Please write to us if you would like your organisation to be represented at the General Meeting.

Inter Faith Week 20-26 November 2011

The Camden Faith Communities Partnership will be bringing people of diverse faiths together in a serioes of special events as part of the national Inter Faith Week in partnership with the Imams and Rabbis Council of the United Kingdom.

Tuesday 22 November 2012 at 2.00 to 6.00pm at the London Borough of Camden, Town Hall, Judd Street, London, there will be an event discussing extremism and countering religious violence.

Tuesday 22 November 2012 at 6.00 to 8.30pm at the London Borough of Camden, Town Hall, Judd Street, London, there will be an panel event for faith leaders and community activists with representatives from St Paul’s Cathedral and the Multifaith Group of the Occupy London Stock Exchange protestors, with a buffet reception.

Our events are open to all, and to attend please contact us.

Contact Us

To find out more about the Camden Faith Communities Partnership or join our mailing list to receive publicity of our meetings, please contact us

Camden Faith Communities Partnership
7 Wakefield Street
London WC1N 1PG

Telephone: 020 7193 7943
Fax: 020 7147 1383
E-mail: enquiries@cfcp.org.uk