19 September 2023

• 8.30AM - 9.00AM
  Registration, coffee & networking
• 9.00AM - 9.05AM
  Chair’s welcome: Krish Raval OBE, director, Faith in Leadership
• 9.05AM - 9.45AM
  Opening keynote: Faith groups and campaigning
  Thomas Yih, head of charities engagement, Charity Commission
  
  Tom will provide an overview of the regulatory position and latest guidance for faith charities when campaigning, as well as a general update from the Charity Commission for England and Wales.
• 9.45AM - 10.25AM
  Legal update – looking back and thinking forward

  Adam McRae-Taylor, legal director, and Paul Rideout, legal director, Moore Barlow

  Adam and Paul will consider the latest legal developments affecting the faith-based sector, covering HR, safeguarding, charity governance and more.

• 10.25AM - 11.05AM
  Faith in fundraising
  Lucy Bushill-Matthews, chief operating officer, National Zakat Foundation and Jehangir Malik, policy & engagement director at Mercy Mission UK
  
  Lucy will explore the challenges for faith charities when fundraising, and offer practical advice on aligning fundraising with faith and values, so that the relationship between charities and donors goes beyond the transactional.
• 11.05AM - 11.35AM
  Networking & refreshment break
• 11.35AM - 12.15PM
  The challenge of faith-confident investing
  Rev Dr Andrew Harper, head of ethics, Epworth
  
  True faith-consistent investing is more than positive outcomes and encouraging stories. Andrew will explore the challenges of making tough decisions around disinvestment, engagement, and public image as we seek to fulfil our faith mandates.
• 12.15PM - 1.15PM
  Panel: Intersectionality between faith and science
  Krish Raval OBE, director, Faith in Leadership

  Graham Budd, executive director, Faraday Institute for Science and Religion

  Professor John Wood CBE FREng, associate of the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, and consultant to CERN

  Dr Martin Hodson, environmental biologist and director, The John Ray Initiative 

  
  How should the faith sector respond to the twin challenges of climate change and AI?
• 1.15PM - 2.15PM
  Lunch
• 2.15PM - 2.55PM
  Faith in the community
  David Barclay, partner, Good Faith Partnership
  
  The Good Faith Partnership facilitates connections across boundaries of politics, business, civil society, and faith, to tackle systemic issues. David will highlight some of its work with faith groups, including the Warm Welcome Campaign, a community response to the costof-living crisis, which established thousands of free spaces, to make sure nobody was left to suffer on their own last winter.
• 2.55PM - 3.35PM
  Volunteering trends after the pandemic
  Hannah Rich, senior researcher, Theos
  
  Hannah will share the findings of research exploring how volunteering in faith-based homelessness projects has changed since before the pandemic, including the challenges and opportunities posed by the last few years. The session will also explore wider trends in faith-based volunteering.
• 3.35PM - 3.55PM
  Networking & refreshment break
• 3.55PM - 4.35PM
  Closing plenary: Working out our differences
  Laura Marks CBE, inter-faith social activist
  
  While recognising that there is more that unites than divides us, Laura will reflect upon her own vast experience, successful and less successful, in inter-faith work and argue that acknowledging there are deep-rooted differences, and difficulties, between faiths is hugely important in reaching common ground.
• 4.35PM - 4.45PM
  Chair's closing remarks
• 4.45PM - 5.55PM
  Networking reception

With thanks to our exhibitors

Krish Raval 

Krish Raval is the director of Faith in Leadership. The organisation includes among its alumni and patrons key British faith leaders and runs programs in partnership with the University of Cambridge Inter-faith Programme. He heads a number of leadership interventions and is particularly committed to building the capacity of faith communities and young people. Raval was the first director of the Churchill Leadership Fellows, the United Kingdom’s main leadership fellowship for outstanding 19- to 25-year-olds, now run in partnership with the Moller Centre at Churchill College. A lawyer by background, Raval had a training contract at a prominent Los Angeles law firm before a deep interest in people led him to work with undergraduates and high school students in the fields of addictions, eating disorders, group therapy, and eventually leadership development. He was a participant in the International Higher Education Interfaith Leadership Forum.

Laura Marks

Laura Marks was a planning director of AMV.BBDO, before deciding to work full time in the Jewish community. She set up Mitzvah Day in 2005, which achieved charitable status in 2008. Elected Senior Vice President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews 2012-2015, Laura went on to become Chair of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust in 2016 and chaired the government’s interfaith project – A Year of Service. Laura is now an advisor to the Muslim-led day of social action, Sadaqa Day and she co-founded the Jewish Muslim Women’s Network, Nisa-Nashim. Laura was awarded an OBE in The New Year’s Honours list for her work building interfaith relationships.

Lucy Bushill-Matthews

Lucy is Chief Operating Officer at NZF -previously Director of Operations. Before that, Lucy spent 10 years in International Development in strategy, programmes and marketing, and has 10 years of experience as an analyst and economist within major multinational corporations. She is author of the book ‘Welcome to Islam: A Convert’s Tale’, is a contributor to Radio 2 Pause for Thought, has given two TedX talks on faith and has been a regular columnist in lifestyle magazine Emel. Lucy holds an MA in Economics from Cambridge University and an MSc in Health Economics (Distinction). Lucy is a Chartered Management Accountant (ACMA). Lucy is a Trustee and the Chair of the Sustainability Committee for the charity Respect.

David Barclay

David leads on projects ranging from increasing the provision of affordable credit to supporting cities become more inclusive of migrants and refugees. He is a former President of the Oxford University Student Union and was previously a community organiser in East London

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