The Faith & Belief Forum

The Faith & Belief Forum We work to build understanding and good relations between people of all faiths and beliefs.

🌱 We're hiring — 4 paid internships on our brand new programme: BELIEVE in Climate Action.BELIEVE is a new four-year int...
11/06/2026

🌱 We're hiring — 4 paid internships on our brand new programme: BELIEVE in Climate Action.

BELIEVE is a new four-year interfaith programme led by the Faith & Belief Forum, in partnership with the Cambridge Interfaith Programme. We're recruiting four paid interns — one in each of our Year 1 regions:

📍 East of England
📍 North West
📍 West Midlands
📍 London

As a BELIEVE intern you'll co-lead school-based climate projects in your local region — working with schools as community hubs, running after-school climate programmes, and supporting and guiding young people to shape their own response to local climate concerns. A values-driven, community-led approach to climate action.

💷 Real Living Wage (£14.80 London / £13.45 elsewhere)
🗓️ 2 days per week · 12-month internship · starts August 2026

We especially welcome candidates from underrepresented faith and belief communities. (UK right to work required.)

📅 Apply by 12pm, Tuesday 17 June.
👉 faithbeliefforum.org/believe

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Thanks to National Lottery players, the ‘Believe in Climate Action’ project led by the Faith & Belief Forum has received four years of funding from the Climate Action Fund – a long-term commitment from The National Lottery Community Fund to support communities across the UK to act on climate change and involve more people in positive environmental action.

Learn more about the project: https://faithbeliefforum.org/4-years-of-national-lottery-funding-to-engage-young-people-from-faith-communities-in-climate-action/

🎓 Celebrating our 2026 graduates — and looking forward to discovering next year's inspiringcohort. Applications close MI...
10/06/2026

🎓 Celebrating our 2026 graduates — and looking forward to discovering next year's inspiringcohort. Applications close MIDNIGHT tonight.

Let's look back at graduation day. Our ParliaMentors came with their friends and families to celebrate the culmination of a year-long journey – in the halls of Parliament itself. They met their MP mentors, heard from alumni from previous years, and were recognised for the projects and the bonds they built together. It was a day of pride, reflection, and looking forward.

ParliaMentors brings together university students of different faiths and beliefs to learn how politics really works, develop their leadership skills, and create social action projects that serve their communities. Mentored by MPs and supported by leading charities, our ParliaMentors spend a year growing in confidence, building friendships across difference, and turning shared values into real change.

This could be you next year. Applications for ParliaMentors 2026/27 close at 23:59 tonight, 10 June. 👇

🔗 https://faithbeliefforum.org/programme/parliamentors/

Join the team behind Inter Faith Week 2026.We're recruiting two paid interns to help coordinate, communicate and deliver...
10/06/2026

Join the team behind Inter Faith Week 2026.

We're recruiting two paid interns to help coordinate, communicate and deliver this year's Week — real, hands-on experience in interfaith work, community engagement and events.

What you'd do: support the team and youth panels, run a youth-focused social media campaign, and help plan and deliver a youth-led panel event during the Week.

The details — Real Living Wage, 2.5 days a week — Six months, August 2026 to January 2027 — Mainly remote, open to applicants across England

We especially welcome applicants of all faiths and beliefs, and those based outside London.

Apply by 12pm, Wednesday 8 July. Full recruitment pack and how to apply: faithbeliefforum.org/career — or scan the QR in the post.

Save the date: Inter Faith Week 2026 is coming.From 8–15 November, communities across England will come together to cele...
08/06/2026

Save the date: Inter Faith Week 2026 is coming.

From 8–15 November, communities across England will come together to celebrate what we share.

This year's theme: "Lighting The Way For A Shared Future."

There's a lot to look forward to — and a few ways to get involved right now:

🔹 2x paid internships are open NOW to help shape and deliver the Week. Applications close 12pm, Wednesday 8 July — see slide 2.
🔹 IFW4Schools returns, with our poetry competition and free classroom resources. More to come soon from the Schools Team this month.

Save the date, share it on, and help us light the way.

More at interfaithweek.org and ifw4schools.co.uk
Internship applications open: faithbeliefforum.org/career/inter-faith-week-internship-2026/

⏳ 48 hours to go.Westminster can feel like it belongs to someone else. It doesn't. Parliament belongs to all of us — and...
08/06/2026

⏳ 48 hours to go.

Westminster can feel like it belongs to someone else. It doesn't. Parliament belongs to all of us — and the next generation of leaders deserves a seat in the room.

ParliaMentors gives students real insight into the political process, mentoring from MPs and Peers, and the chance to lead social change alongside people from every faith and belief background.

Last call — applications close WEDNESDAY, 23:59, 10 June 👇 https://faithbeliefforum.org/parliamentors-applications-2026-27/

⏳ 5 days to go. One application could change your year – maybe your life.Leadership doesn't begin with a title. It begin...
05/06/2026

⏳ 5 days to go. One application could change your year – maybe your life.

Leadership doesn't begin with a title. It begins with showing up, listening, and deciding the change you want to be part of. On ParliaMentors you'll be mentored by MPs, work across difference, and build a social action project that serves your community.

If you've been waiting for a sign — this is it.

Deadline has been extended at select universities. Don't miss this chance.👇 https://faithbeliefforum.org/parliamentors-applications-2026-27/

"Maybe interfaith isn't a what — maybe it's a who."Some of the most important conversations of our generation don't happ...
04/06/2026

"Maybe interfaith isn't a what — maybe it's a who."

Some of the most important conversations of our generation don't happen in headlines. They happen in a room, between people who believe different things and choose to build something together anyway.

That's ParliaMentors: a UN-awarded political leadership programme that brings students across faith and belief together to learn from MPs, understand how Parliament really works, and turn shared values into social action.

Good news for those who didn't get their application in on time — the deadline has been extended to 10th June at 3 universities and there is still room for individuals from underrepresented faith and beliefs to apply across the 5 universities.

🎓 Rolling deadline: LSE, University of Nottingham, University of Westminster
📌Nominations are mainly closed at: King's College London, University of Liverpool

We especially welcome students from communities currently underrepresented in applications, including Jewish, Hindu and Jain students.

Apply now: https://faithbeliefforum.org/parliamentors-applications-2026-27/

It's Volunteers' Week this week! Between 1-7 June, charities across the country are giving special shoutouts to their vo...
03/06/2026

It's Volunteers' Week this week! Between 1-7 June, charities across the country are giving special shoutouts to their volunteers. We want to thank the remarkable people who give their time to our schools work, share their stories, inspire young people and plant seeds of generational change. 💛

What do our school speakers do?

They step into classrooms to share their own stories of faith and belief — and in doing so they open authentic, personal and diverse conversations with young people.

Some of these young people may never have met a person of the speaker's faith before. And if they have, they are often surprised by how different two people of the same faith can be. It's all about lived experience, personal journeys and individual stories of change and faith.

The speakers model first-hand what interfaith dialogue and multifaith living looks like.

When they answer pupils' questions – and the way in which the engage with the other speaker in the room – our volunteer school speakers SHOW what it looks like to believe strongly in something, while living inquisitively, respectfully and compassionately with those who might strongly disagree.

This is an experience we believe all students should have as we seek to build a more peaceful, better connected world.

In this post is just a little glimpse into what pupils, teachers and the volunteers themselves have to say about the workshops — and what it means to them.

👉 Inspired to bring this into your classroom? Explore our free schools resources including online speakers stories for ages at faithbeliefforum.org/resources

03/06/2026

Earlier this year we worked with Newham Council to do two things: connect faiths and connect generations. Sometimes at the same time.

It started quietly, with training — sitting down with council officers and then with faith leaders, building the confidence and the tools to engage a genuinely diverse borough, and thinking hard about how young people can be heard and lead in faith spaces, rather than sit at the back.

Then came the celebration night. A hall in Forest Gate, food on the table, and a Human Library where people offered up their own stories of faith, life and belonging while others simply listened. It was buzzing. People laughed. And then, just as easily, they leaned in and shared something deeply personal.

It was beautiful. It was community. It was Britain at its best.

This is what closer communities look like. And it's what we can build right across the country because what we share – our towns, our streets, our friendships – will always outlast any narrative of division.

We're not telling a counter-narrative. We're living together everyday. And that cannot be undone.

Read the full story: https://faithbeliefforum.org/newham-brings-faith-and-community-together-across-generations/

02/06/2026

Right now, we're buzzing with live opportunities for young people — and they're all connected.

Earlier this year, we held our Youth Interfaith Summit for the third year running, exploring where faith, climate action and leadership meet. So much of this year has been shaped by our young leaders and ParliaMentors — whose work has run from the summit itself right through to events in Parliament. Applications for the next cohort are open until this Sunday.

And last week, we launched something brand new: BELIEVE in Climate Action, a four-year programme beginning with four paid internships – with further internships to come every year. Our BELIEVE interns will first be trained by experts in Cambridge and beyond, then go on to guide and support young people in schools to deliver their own climate action projects.

Tomorrow begins today. Young people are already leaders — our job is to give them the space to flourish on their journeys,. 🌍

ParliaMentors — apply by Sunday 👉 http://faithbeliefforum.org/programme/parliamentors/
BELIEVE internships open until 17th June 👉 faithbeliefforum.org/believe

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