CORNWALL FAITH FORUM ANNUAL REPORT APRIL 2022 TO MARCH 2023
It has been another busy year for the Cornwall Faith Forum and as we emerged from the pandemic restrictions we have been glad to have been able to do more face to fae contact. The three strands of Sharing for Peace, Learning for Peace and Building for Peace have all seen interesting developments in these 12 months
SHARING FOR PEACE
The monthly pattern of holding events at Penmount - during the Spring and Summer months has returned and this year included
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Christian celebration of Palm Sunday
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Celebration of Eid with family games
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Diversi-tea to mark the Queen’s Jubilee
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Autumn Equinox on the theme of balance led by our Pagan community
In November we went indoors and together created an Advent Spiral and we discovered that the theme of light and darkness was common to all our faith traditions
CFF had significant participation in the planning for the Holocaust Memorial Day and in the event itself in January inTruro Cathedral - with lighting of Memorial Candles by the Chair of Kehillat Kernow and a presentation on the Yellow Crocus project from Mousehole School
LEARNING FOR PEACE
With COVID restrictions lifted we were able to return to more regular delivery of Faith Education sessions in schools - though we also continued to use the on-line platforms we had begun to use during the pandemic. These meant we could be more efficient with our time and also support our environment policy
Specific projects to highlight from the year.
Primary . A set of videos were made of interviews with Faith leaders The interviews were based on questions that had been submitted by local RE teachers through the LTRE scheme in Cornwall
These videos were watched by schools during National Inter Faith Week.
Going forward we hope to record more interviews so each Faith Community is represented And we are looking for follow up questions from pupils to the answers given in response to the initial questions from teachers.
We supported Mousehole School to become part of the Yellow Crocus Project
Holocaust Memorial Day Service in Truro Cathedral with a moving address by the acting Dean was attended by students from Torpoint who displayed their work and also pupils from Mousehole School who talked about planting the crocuses and the link to the yellow stars.
Secondary The Stories of Survival Project goes from strength to strength and resources have been developed for Secondary Schools for Holocaust Education. CFF has brought together Torpoint School which is recognised nationally as a Beacon School for Holocaust Education ; a member of Kehillat Kernow whose mother was a Holocaust Survival ; and Falmouth University Animation Department to produce these resources
They were introduced to teachers from some secondary schools for their feedback at a landmark conference hosted by the University
And the animations went on to win an award
Going forward the feedback from the teachers will be used to adapt and improve the materials and then given wider circulation
College With funding from St Luke’s Trust we continued to develop our links with the Colleges. We produced a series of recordings from college age students under the title This Time Tomorrow ie. What difference does following a faith path have on our daily lives. And these were used as part of the delivery of An online workshop for 1,000 children (16-17 year old ) in conjunction with Truro College.to a whole year group of students via their tutor groups.
BUILDING FOR PEACE
The report that the CFF Trustees had commissioned from Paul Green into the viability of the Dor Kemmyn Centre for Peace and Faith was submitted to the Bereavement Services of Cornwall Council and was received positively. It envisages a three stage project.
Phase 1 – Replace the tired wooden poles marking the oval with a new set of poles – based on the peace pole - designed by each faith community and by our CFF partners.
Phase 2 – A temporary shelter perhaps with a sail type roof supported by wooden poles – along the lines of the SERTS theatre on Bodmin Moor
Phase 3 - . The timber framework from Phase 2 would be used to develop the final Dor Kemmyn Oval, with the walls being constructed with cob bricks, made by community, faith and other groups and organisations.
The Council endorsed this approach which allowed us to have an extension of the offer to Lease the field and we also set about enthusiastically inviting each faith community and several of our partners to consider designs for ‘their’ poles. By March 2023 several designs were at the completed stage and discussions were in hand with a local printer on producing the poles with hopes of a celebration for their installation in Summer 2023.
Andrew Yates
CFF Chair June 2023
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