B.A.B.I.E.S (Borrow a Baby in an Educational Setting) brings together young women and men of a variety of faiths and backgrounds in Bradford to learn the information and skills required to make informed choices about their lives.

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Belfast Community Circus is a youth and community arts organisation that provides positive shared experiences for young people from different communities in Northern Ireland. It runs workshops in circus skills for young people and is also a training school for professional teachers and performers of circus arts.

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:

Breaking Barriers in Burnley is a multi-agency youth provision, which aims to involve young people from different areas, backgrounds and cultures together in order to develop positive relationships between the various communities of Burnley. It works to tackle racism, bring communities together, promote understanding and tolerance and to reduce conflict by providing constructive activities for the young people of Burnley.

The Burnley Youth Action project aims to deliver a range of fun, developmental and issue based projects for young people in the local area. At the same time it develops the young participants as peer educators to enable them to lead on these activities and deliver a variety of activities to other young people in the community.

The project is driven by community cohesion goals and engages hundreds of young people between the ages of 11-24 from different faiths and backgrounds, including Muslim, Christian and no faith.

This year City Gateway engaged with over 1,000 young people from Tower Hamlets. They describe their project as 'a community hub for progression', and are focused on getting young people back into training, work or full time education. They have three projects: Import, Engage and Export, each of which provide training courses, skill development workshops, job preparation and forums for engaging and motivating young people.

Fairbridge works with vulnerable young people aged 13-25 in disadvantaged areas of the UK. Through a combination of long-term personal support and challenging activities, they provide young people with a route back into mainstream society.

During Fairtrade Fortnight 2005 Save the Children, Christian Aid, Islamic Relief, Active Faith Communities and United Co-operatives organised a Fairtrade Football Tournament for young people across Bradford.

Faith and Young People is part of the Youth Encounter project lead by Dr. Andrew Smith of Scripture Union. It brings together Christian and Muslim teenagers and aims to give those young people a chance to get to know people of a different faith and to provide an informal environment where they can look at issues relevant to both faith communities.

St. Louis Interfaith Community Explorations (SLICE) is a Faith Beyond Walls summer program designed to provide a weeklong service experience for local interfaith youth. It brings young people from different faiths together to work on a variety of local community projects.