The Bolton Interfaith Council has recently embarked on working with children and young people. These activities aim to serve as positive contributions towards creating a more stable and cohesive society. This work is being done in two areas:

Both of these projects aim to empower young people to take leadership
in intervening in all areas of bullying. The young participants are
trained by Diversity Works UK to be leaders.

Working with Groundwork, Leeds Youth Cells Network, Middleton Methodist Church, Leeds Faith in Schools and the Sinai Synagogue, Diversity and Dialogue brought together young Christians and Jews from Leeds as well as some Israeli students to help clear up a small part of Leeds. The young people were fantastic and did a superb job of clearing rubbish in the area as well as meeting new people.

Sacred Heart Church organises this school-linking project between two ethnically different primary schools in their parish. Students from both schools come together to work on joint projects such as art, music and drama and also to spend time getting to know each other in an informal ¹youth club® environment. Activities take place after school and the participants can also attend two lunchtime informal meetings each week, which gives them greater opportunities for dialogue.

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The Intercultural Communication and Leadership School is an international organisation which aims to promote community cohesion and prevent local and global conflicts. It gives young people from different cultural, religious and ethnic backgrounds a safe and neutral place to meet and discuss issues important to their area.

The Interfaith Society was set up in North London Collegiate School in 2006. It aims to promote understanding and communication between students of different faiths. This is achieved through meetings for years 7 to 11 and talks for the sixth form.

The Interfaith Youth Champions project is an initiative run by Minorities of Europe. It aims to train, support and resource young people to become 'Inter-faith Youth Champions', and supports them to organize inter-faith activities in their local communities and schools.

Lagan College is the first integrated secondary school in Northern Ireland and aims 'to educate to the highest standards Catholics, Protestants and others of goodwill together under the same roof'. It was established in response to the challenge of community conflict and a religiously divided school system in Northern Ireland.

This project is led by Tide~ (Teachers in Development Education) and forms part of Diversity and Dialogue. The project brings together one teacher and two students from six different schools in Birmingham.

The Maimonides Foundation is a joint Jewish-Muslim interfaith organisation, which fosters understanding, dialogue, and co-operation between Jews and Muslims through cultural, academic and educational programmes based on mutual respect and trust. It has an active education programme which runs a number of projects and events for young people of Jewish and Muslim faith.