Joining Up The Dots - FbRN conference 2009 report

March 31st 2009
Friend’s House

Conference Programme

Session One

Speaker:
Sadiq Khan, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department for Communities and Local Government
(click here for video highlights and full text of Sadiq's speech)

Presentations:
Wellbeing in Wandsworth – Catriona Robertson
Building Bridges in Pendle – Rauf Bashir

Session Two

Panel chaired by Rob Weinberg
Alistair Burt – Conservative MP for North East Bedfordshire
Leonie Lewis – Director of Jewish Volunteering Network and FbRN Trustee
Jan McHarry – Co-Director of Community Environment Association, a Western  Buddhist and FbRN Trustee
Fiyaz Mughal – Director of Faith Matters and Adviser to the Leader of the Liberal Democrats on Inter Faith
Andrew Robinson – a Director of CCLA Investment Management Ltd
Steve Wyler – Director of the Development Trusts Association

Session Three

Speakers:
Dr Muhammad Abdul Bari Secretary General, Muslim Council of Britain (MCB)
(click here for video highlights and full text of Dr Bari's speech)

Stuart Etherington Chief Executive National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO)
(click here for video highlights and full text of Stuart's speech)

Session Four

Workshops

Successful Partnerships: local authorities engaging with the faith sector.
Led by Building Bridges, Pendle

Collaborative working: shared needs and common goals.
Led by the National Council for Voluntary Organisations

Embracing social enterprise.
Led by Red Ochre

Faith based organisations and local government in effective partnerships and joint working.
Led by IdEA

Let’s not reinvent the wheel: making sense of what we already know about funding and community development.
Led by the Community Development Foundation

New Opportunities.
Led by the National Association for Voluntary and Community Action