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.

Diversity and Dialogue and the British Museum worked in partnership on a two-part project over the summer of 2005. The British Museum houses a huge range of artefacts from different faiths and cultures all over the world.

The inter-faith schools photography project involves 60 students from five faith schools in London and is running for one year. The Students are learning photography skills from professionals and using what they learn to take pictures – individually and collaboratively across the faith groups – portraying their own lives.

Their images will become a touring exhibition available to other schools as an educational tool with an accompanying resource pack for exploring themes of faith, integration, assimilation, identity, community, tolerance and multi-culturalism.

Two youth groups, one Muslim and one Christian, came together to create a welcome sign for their community centre. The sign encourages all sections of the Isle of Dogs community to come into the centre. It is a stained glass mosaic, combining the artistic traditions of both Islam and Christianity.

The participants visited each other's places of worship and designed the piece of artwork to symbolise co-operation between the two groups. They also talked about their religions and about why it was important to understand each other's beliefs.

The Tricycle Theatre runs a Jewish and Muslim Youth Theatre Group, formed in 2004 to share and promote understanding through the creative arts.

Keighley Asian Women and Children's Centre (KAWACC) runs a number of projects which bring together young people of different faiths and backgrounds. Staff work hard to tackle issues of race, culture and stereotyping through a mixture of schemes and youth work.

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.

The Multi-faith media group, originally known as Youth Extra, is a fantastic initiative which aims to train young people from across the faiths in media skills. This involves working with a group of approximately eight young people between the ages of 17-25 to produce radio, print and web features, to encourage being proactive in media and to seek opportunities to do this locally and further afield.

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Soft Touch uses the arts to offer people with limited opportunities the chance to work together to effect positive change for themselves and their communities. The majority of our work is with young people and is focused around providing opportunities for misrepresented or under-represented groups to communicate their experiences and ideas in a positive way. Projects use different creative media e.g. graphic design, music, drama, video and photography.