STATUTORY BODIES Local Councils: housing, education (including SACRE), community safety, community
cohesion, regeneration, planning, social care, environment, parks,
crematoria/cemeteries, parking, youth work, etc.
Find your local council’s
contact details and website at www.londoncouncils.gov.uk
Local Strategic Partnerships, Local Area Agreements (find through local
council)
Police:
Metropolitan Police Service (Safer Neighbourhood Teams, Prevent/Contest II
strategy, etc) www.met.police.uk British Transport Police www.btp.police.uk
Regional / Central Government bodies:
Government Office for
London (GOL) www.gol.gov.uk Greater London Authority
(GLA) www.london.gov.uk Dept Communities and Local
Government (has Faith & Cohesion Unit) www.communities.gov.uk
VOLUNTARY AND COMMUNITY
SECTOR
Local CVS: find your local
CVS at www.navca.org.uk Independent Advisory
Groups / consultative groups - varies across boroughs
MULTI-FAITH AND INTER FAITH
NETWORKS
Multi-faith, bi-lateral & tri-lateral
partnerships: see new edition of Inter Faith Organisations
in the UK
/ website for national, regional, borough and local groups www.interfaith.org.uk
London Boroughs
Faiths Network: brings together practitioners at the interface of faith and the local statutory sector in London. www.lbfn.org
Faiths Forum for London: working towards being a regional multi-faith body
for London. Contact development worker Harmander Singh www.londoncivicforum.org.uk
FaithAction (London): network representing faith and community
organisations delivering public services. Contact Steve Miller
www.faithaction.net
South London Inter Faith Group: linking and sharing with the faith communities of
South London for over 25 years www.southlondoninterfaith.org.uk