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Inter Faith Week receives funding from Lancashire County Council

Posted on - 11th November, 2014 - 12:00pm | Author - | Posted in - Charities, Preston City Centre, Preston News, Things to Do in and around Preston, What's On in Preston
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County Hall is to host one of the opening events of the Inter Faith Week in Preston

Funding for Inter Faith week has been given by Lancashire County Council.

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The Preston Faith Forum applied for £200 to help run a number of events.

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Two events to be funded are the Faith and Finance half day conference as well as a Voice of women in Faith all day event.

Preston South East county councillor and leader of the county council Jennifer Mein approved the funding.

An application from the Preston Faith Forum said: “There is general recognition that government cutbacks are having a huge impact on people’s ability to cope with day-to-day living, and managing finance is a crucial aspect of this.

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“These two events during Inter Faith week being together people from different faith groups, together with members of the local authority and public sector, in a forum where issues can be identified and solutions and approaches explored.”

The money is to be used to pay for guest speakers and refreshments at the events.

Inter Faith Week statrts on Thursday 20 November.

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