One of the ways West Wiltshire Interfaith Group promotes interaction between different communities is through organising Women only lunches.

Muslim women in particular find it difficult to mix socially in mixed company, especially if they are not accompanied by their husband or another close male relative; these lunches provide opportunities for them to meet socially and maybe to attend talks by women speakers about things of interest within the community.

The women only lunches are open to all communities. We have welcomed women recently from Bangladesh, Turkey, Morocco, India as well as long-term British at these lunches.

The women lunches not only meet our main objective of bringing communities from different faiths and cultures together to improve integration. It also helps remove the feeling of isolation felt by many BME communities. Also we arrange talks to provide information to women on matters concerning Health, CAB, Police and the working of local government.

We acknowledge the support and assistance provided by The Trinity Parish Church in organising Women only lunches.

Recent Talks have included:

Date	Venue	Topic	Speaker
30-11-2009	Longfield Community Centre, Trowbridge	Launch of Wiltshire Women Newtwork
18/01/2010	Chippenham	Women in Islam
20/01/2010	Trowbridge	Women getting together to discuss Physical activities available
30/01/2010	Trowbridge	The two American Muslim women were invited to discuss women’s, human rights, community cohesion, conflict resolution and the changing dynamics that are taking place within Muslim women’s groups in the US.
13/02/2010	Trowbridge	Family, Domestic Abuse, Health

Last Event:

A formal discussion to start an Art project. As a result of this a few ladies will be meeting on a weekly/bi weekly in each other homes. Once a month all those who attended on 6th November and any new joiners will join in the project and work as much as they can to make a contribution.

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