The Faith and Belief Forum
Organisation information:
We were founded in 1997 as the Three Faiths Forum and became the Faith & Belief Forum in 2018.
We work towards a connected and supportive society where people of different faiths, beliefs and cultures have strong, productive and lasting relations.
Organisational Goals:
Equip Learners: To equip more learner with the skills and tools they need to handle and influence relations between different faiths and beliefs
Project Voice: To project the voices of those we support and the impact of our partnership with them
Build Movement: To generate stronger community-based movement with youth at the forefront
Education and Learning Offer & Access to free online resources and CPD for schools:
Free Online Resources:
We are delighted to launch an extensive range of online resources perfect for Primary and Secondary RE and PSHE teachers. Detailed lesson plans with accompanying films, presentations and worksheets, to enable us to share our expertise and methodologies with education professionals in a scalable and sustainable way. Our in-house team of educationalists have created these resources in collaboration with specialist RE teachers. The resources cover many learning objectives in the following subjects: RE, PSHE, RSE, Humanities and Citizenship. Each lesson plan has been mapped to the English and Welsh curriculum.
Schools: Skills for Dialogue KS3 lesson plans - The Faith & Belief Forum (faithbeliefforum.org)
https://faithbeliefforum.org/resources/schools-skills-for-dialogue-primary/
School Linking Programme:
The School Linking Programme matches students and classes from different cultural or faith backgrounds to explore issues of identity, community and belief. The Faith & Belief Forum's linking programme is run as part of The Linking Network; the programme's focus is to equip teachers with the skills, knowledge and support to provide these opportunities for their students. We offer teachers 2 FREE CPD days and a toolkit of activities, to run 3 link days or 3 virtual link encounter topics across the academic year with a school from another area / faith / belief / culture.
School Linking Programme - Application to Linking
Encountering Faith and Belief Workshops:
To succeed in today's complex and diverse world, young people need to be able to communicate sensitively and effectively with anyone, regardless of beliefs or background. These workshops and resources enable your students to 'meet' people (films of our F&BF speakers/ online speaker workshops) of different faiths, beliefs, and identities, telling their personal story of their lived experience of their faith or belief. This is a unique experience, as the speakers are opening up about what their beliefs mean to them, and it offers your students the opportunity to relate, question, draw out similarities and identify differences in their own beliefs.
Encountering Faiths & Beliefs workshops - Booking Form for F&BF Workshops
Online speaker story videos and lesson plans: https://faithbeliefforum.org/resources/encountering-faiths-beliefs/
Event - Fostering Inclusivity in Your School the Faith & Belief Forum Way:
To provide an overview of the multi-layered education programmes that F&BF is offering to Primary & Secondary schools in 2021 to support with the teaching of RE/PSHE/Citizenship/RSE. This includes the School Linking Programme, our suite of KS2 & KS3 Skills For Dialogue Online Resources for teachers and our Encountering Faiths and Beliefs Workshops, which give students the opportunity to hear from and ask questions to speakers from different faiths/beliefs.
Members of F&BF's Education and Learning Team will model activities from each of the programmes and take questions from participants at the end of the session.
Find out more - https://faithbeliefforum.org/event/8536/
