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 and 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
- Schools: Skills for Dialogue lesson plans, primary schools
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.
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.
Online speaker story videos and lesson plans: Encountering Faiths & Beliefs for KS2 and KS3
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 and Secondary schools in 2021 to support with the teaching of RE/PSHE/Citizenship/RSE. This includes the School Linking Programme, our suite of KS2 and 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.