Faith Watch can help you: it is based on the idea that formed Neighbourhood Watch and is an opportunity for faith communities in Bristol to work together to communicate any concerns. Faith watch is coordinated and supported by Avon and Somerset Police.

Neighbourhood watch began back in 1982 and is based in a street or number of streets. Faith communities are often dotted across the city.

Reports come and go. Launches are a moment in time. The lives behind them last and it the lasting effects of faith in action in Bristol which matter most.

The launch of any report is an ambiguous event. Reports are useful things to have. They set out in a semi-permanment fashion the discoveries and ideas, analyses and assessments of the surveyors, and help everyone find a way along what can be crowded or overgrown paths. The danger with surveys and their reports is that we can tend to think that they are the whole job, and we walk away from the launch, confident that we have transformed the world. Reality is vastly different.

The Annual Report of the BMFF is now available for download. Click here.

An annual report is always about looking backwards and putting that into context for the coming year. Recognising change comes with the territory, and this year is no different. The life of the Bristol Multi-Faith Forum has been the usual mixture of consolidation and growth, and I believe that consequently we are now on a firmer footing as a voice and vehicle for multi-faith dialogue than at the end of last year.

The following letter was published earlier this summer in the Bristol Evening Post. The original story can be seen here.

Dear Sir

I write as chair of the Bristol Multifaith Forum, and on behalf of many people of faith in Bristol, to express my sadness and disquiet at the actions of Mr Knowlson (EP, 6/6/11) and to give our full support to those who worship at Al-Baseera Mosque on Wade Street as they come to terms with such a disrespectful situation. The Bristol Multifaith Forum was formed following calls to build greater cohesion in the UK, and Mr Knowlson clearly shows us all that, sadly, there is still much to be done.