Category: Interfaith 2
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TDN: Ten Years A Charity
https://druidnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/TDN-10-years-Charity.pdf October 5th 2020 sees the tenth anniversary of The Druid Network (TDN) receiving notification that it had been successful in its application to the Charity Commission of England & Wales in getting its status as a charity approved. This outcome was based on the acceptance by the commission that Druidry was a legitimate religion.…
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Covid-19
Covid 19 statement from TDN. The Druid Network, is an active member within The Interfaith Network UK. TDN trustee and IFN statement making moderator Neil Pitchford, is a co-signatory to the following statement that was published at the end of March 2020.. https://www.interfaith.org.uk/news/faith-communities-and-coronavirus-a-statement The nationwide lockdown has resulted in matters of concern being raised by…
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TDN Trustee Becomes a Moderator of IFN-UK
Press release. Tuesday 8th October 2019 Neil Pitchford of The Druid Network (TDN) has been appointed as a Moderator of the Faith Communities Forum (FCF) of the Inter Faith Network for the UK (IFN). He attended his first meeting as Moderator on 3 October 2019 in London. IFN was established by its first member bodies…
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Pagans marginalised by the BBC
By TDN Member Stuart Jeffery For many years I have listened to Thought for the Day on Radio 4 and enjoyed other aspects of religious programmes but as someone who has identified as a Druid and Pagan for over 25 years it seems that we get very little coverage by the likes of the BBC.…
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London
The terrorist attack at #FinsburyPark mosque is abhorrent. We stand in solidarity with our Muslim friends and pray for the bereaved and injured.
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TDN + IFN -> TWH…
Acronyms aplenty, but a fine article on the confirmation of The Druid Network’s full membership of the Inter Faith Network in today’s The Wild Hunt. “TDN Media co-coordinator Joanna van der Hoeven says, “TDN now has an even greater legal standing, which others can follow, in having both legal and religious influence in the UK. There will…
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TDN is granted full membership of IFN.
October 19th 2016. After serving a probationary two year period The Druid Network was admitted to the Inter Faith Network as a full voting member. This was the culmination of over 4 years of work that included both legal and moral challenges to the Inter Faith Networks’ previous admittance policy and was even deemed important…
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TDN to join Inter Faith Network
On the 29th of September 2014, at the Annual General Meeting of The Inter Faith Network for the United Kingdom (IFN UK), The Druid Network (TDN) was admitted to Membership. IFN works to promote understanding, cooperation and good relations between organisations and persons of different faiths in the UK. In April 2012, IFN refused the first application for membership of…
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Inter Faith Network
Following the initial rejection of the application to join Inter Faith Network UK (IFN) as a faith representative body The Druid Network, together with other interested bodies, entered into discussion with IFN regrading their current membership policy. These talks centred around a concern that the current membership policy didn’t reflect the multi-faith society of the UK and could also possibly lead…
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Interfaith at Ammerdown
Here’s a link to a blog post from Greywolf, Philip Shallcrass of BDO, about the recent interfaith conference at the Ammerdown Centre in Somerset. Phil and Lynda Ryder of TDN were participants in the conference, although Phil appears cunningly to have dodged the group photo… Celebrating Planet Earth: A Conversation Between Christians, Druids and Others…