Community Relations: Religion
(asked on 22nd July 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what grants his Department has made to (a) Muslim, (b) Jewish, (c) Christian, and (d) inter-faith organisations to support integration and community cohesion, by organisation, in each year since May 2015.
Answered by
Rishi Sunak
Prime Minister, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service, and Minister for the Union
A range of funding has been identified with is focussed on enabling Muslim, Jewish, Christian and inter-faith organisations to support integration and community cohesion, since May 2015:
Projects | Organisations | 2015/16 (£000s) | 2016/17 (£000s) | 2017/18 (£000s) | 2018/19 (£000s) | Total |
Expanding Bridges not Boycotts | B'nai Brith Hillel Foundation (Jewish) | 0 | 31 | 50 |
| 81 |
Holocaust Memorial Day | Holocaust Memorial Day Trust (Jewish) | 980 | 980 | 1,150 | 1,146 | 4,256 |
Inter Faith Network (IFN) | Inter Faith Network (inter-faith) | 220 | 305 | 382 | 384 | 1,291 |
Jewish Muslim Network | Jewish Muslim Network (inter-faith) | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 |
Joseph Interfaith Foundation | Joseph Interfaith Foundation (inter-faith) |
| 7 | 0 |
| 7 |
Near Neighbours 11-12 to 13-14 | Church Urban Fund (Christian) | 1500 | 1,710 | 2,150 | 1,882 | 7,242 |
Remembering Srebrenica | Umma Help (Muslim) | 333 | 400 | 400 | 400 | 1,533 |
Solutions not Sides | One Voice Europe (inter-faith) | 0 | 50 | 100 |
| 150 |
Strengthening Faith Institutions | Fayre Share Foundation (inter-faith) | 125 | 275 | 487 | 800 | 1,687 |
Tell Mama | Faith Matters (inter-faith) | 182 | 504 | 829 | 892 | 2,406 |
Together in Service | Faith Action (inter-faith) | 48 | 0 | 0 |
| 48 |
Tough Options | Forum for Discussion of Isarel & Palestine (inter-faith) | 0 |
|
| 62 | 62 |
Nisa Nashim | Nisa Nashim (inter-faith) |
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| 30 | 30 |
70 Years on | Faiths Forum for London (inter-faith) |
| 5 | 70 |
| 75 |
In addition the Department funds a range of projects to help build strong integrated communities where people – whatever their background – live, work, learn and socialise together, based on shared rights, responsibilities and opportunities.