Faith Contacts Within the North East
The following faith communities welcome contact from interested individuals and groups. Most have places of worship and welcome visitors. Some offer other/additional services including speakers, teaching and artisitic faith expression. Please check with each individual community concerned.
Some faith contacts sections contain a document offering guidance for those unfamiliar with visiting that community's place of worship. Each document has been written with the assistance and approval of the community concerned.
Further contacts for most of the faith groups listed can be found in the BT Phone Book under "Places of Worship - mixed" and in the Yellow Pages under "Places of Worship".
- African Culture
- Bahá'í (Bahá'í)
- Buddhism (Buddhist)
- Chinese Culture
- Christianity (Christian)
- Eastern European Communities
- Hinduism (Hindu)
- Humanism (Humanist)
- Islam (Muslim)
- Judaism (Jewish)
- Pagan Religions
- Quaker (Quaker)
- Sikhism (Sikh)
- Southern Asian Culture
- Zoroastrianism (Zoroastrian)
Other faiths are currently being consulted.
Faith Contacts Outside the North East
The North East Religious Learning Resources Centre supports religious learning in the North East of England. We also have excellent links with advisers and faith groups which border our region. We have been asked to include links to some of these groups on our site and this is something we are developing in partnership with educational colleagues in the regions concerned. For more information on the groups listed on the links below please refer to the site contacts and not the NERLRC.
East Riding of Yorkshire
For information on the provision of RE in the East Riding region please visit: reweb.org.uk
For information on faith contacts recommended in that region please view the following PDF:
All Faith Contacts
For further information please contact Sue Holmes, Curriculum Project Manager and Education Adviser, York Diocese, through the reweb site.
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Guidelines for Welcoming a Visitor
The PDF below contains guidance to bear in mind when considering inviting a visitor into a school.
- Why are you inviting a visitor into school?
- What arrangements need to be made in school prior to the visit?
- How do you find a community representative?
- Brief your visitor
- Preparing your students
- The visit
- Giving and receiving feedback
Disclaimer
The Resources Centre works with, and recommends, these communities in good faith. However, we cannot accept responsibility for the views, actions or CRB status of any members of the faith communities listed.
If you have any complaints or queries about any of the information contained in the faith contacts sections, please contact us.
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