You can download the latest copy of the CTN bulletin here.

This is the final CTN bulletin of the year and at this time of the year, we would like to reflect and to celebrate Barnet’s wide cultural, religious and diverse community.

CTN has recognised the unwelcome rise of intolerance and extremism and our response with the Barnet Multi Faith Forum showed our support to those affected by the Pittsburg massacre. We also all came together to support our residents in the Willow House fire last month.

The work in 2019 will further build upon the development of partnership working, sharing, supporting and to create a strong, successful and shared community for Barnet. The CTN continues to resolve issues of community concern, explore solutions, meet community needs and to help find funding.

May we wish you a peaceful end to 2018 and a brighter future for 2019.

Festive wishes from the Community Participation & Engagement Team

IANL is proud to be acting as a night shelter for the homeless in Barnet. Working in collaboration with Together in Barnet. 

IANL will open its doors at 7:30 pm every Wednesday (starting 19/12/18) where it will serve a hot meal and provide a place to sleep. The shelter will close at 8:30 am the next morning shortly after serving breakfast. 

If you would like to volunteer and take part in this initiative by making food, serving guests, supervising their stay, or staying overnight with them, then please sign up. 

Photograph: Steven Derby/Interfaith Matters

Chanukah lighting ceremony last week at Hendon Town Hall 

A multi-agency database recording information about rough sleepers and the wider street population in London (commissioned and funded by the Greater London Authority) has released data showing an alarming increase in street homelessness between 1st July and 30th September. 3,103 people were recorded as sleeping rough on the streets of London, a 17% increase on the same period in 2017 and 20% more than the period before.

This report can be accessed here, you can attend Barnet’s Housing and Homelessness & Rough Sleeping roadshow event here or comment on it here.

From our community in the London Borough of Barnet to your community in Squirrel Hill Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh. We share your pain. Our hearts are filled with utter sadness and regret with what has happened to you while you were attacked in your place of worship. There was no justification, there was no sense to this, there was no mercy. We must collectively work together to address the horror and hatred we see growing in the hearts of a few. We no longer have an option to sit back and watch this poison spread. With all those who face discrimination in our world today, we stand together against every form of hatred that targets humanity today.

To those bereaving families we send the traditional Jewish blessing of wishing you “Long Life”

 Barnet Multi Faith Forum Executive 

Co Chairs 

Esmond Rosen 
Trevor Alexander