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Contacts and resources useful to RE teachers (Updated October 2016) The table below gives contact details for some of the places, people and organisations that might be useful to RE teachers in Ealing (although some of them are outside the local authority’s borders).

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The names and contact details of SACRE members willing to answer queries about their Various tradition can be found on the EGfL: http://www.egfl.org.uk/categories/teaching/curriculum/subjects/re/sacre/consult/

27 Rutland Gate, SW7 Can be contacted for general IPD. National Bahá’í inquiries about the UK Bahá’í 020 7584 2566 Office community or to request www.bahai.org.uk information about the Bahá’í Faith. [email protected] 0BBahá’í C/o Marjohn Pourtabib Can provide books, tapes, Spiritual Assembly 56 King Edward’s Gardens, teachers’ notes and artefacts, as of the Bahá’ís of Acton, London W3 9RQ well as speakers for assemblies Ealing 020 8993 4042 and RE lessons.

Head Monk, Ven Bogoda Sri Lankan, Theravada London Seelawimala Community. Very welcoming; has Buddhist The Avenue, Bedford Park, a tree in the shrine room said to be Vihara W4 1UD an offshoot of the Bodhi tree under 020 8995 9493 which the Buddha is believed to www.londonbuddhistvihara.org have achieved enlightenment.

Well established, reputable centre The Buddhist 020 7834 5858 for all things Buddhist. The Society [email protected] society’s premises are open 2-6 pm 58 Ecclestone www.thebuddhistsociety.org Monday to Friday and 2-5 pm Square, SWIV IPH Saturday. Truly spectacular temple building 14 Calonne Road, Wimbledon Buddhist with 5-6 resident monks. London Buddhapadipa Parkside, SWl9 5JH. centre for Thai community. Visit Temple 020 8946 1357 their website to see activities and www.watbuddhapadipa.org info re: group tours.

84 Margaret Street, WIW 8TD Very attractive temple, active Fo Guang 020 7636 8394 Mahayana community, mainly Temple [email protected] Chinese but all welcome. Open www.londonfgs.org.uk 9am-5pm daily (except Friday).

16 - 20 Turner Street, Publishing arm of Friends of the Manchester M4 IDZ Western Buddhist Order. Produce Clearvision 0161 839 9579 some very good materials Trust [email protected] including web-based resources www.clear-vision.org and a source of telephone advice.

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There are many Christian groups and churches in the borough, and it is impossible to list them all. However the following four church buildings are of historical interest.

There has been a church dedicated to St Mary in the centre of Acton 1 The Mount, Acton High Street, since about the twelfth century. London W3 9NW Over the years there have been 020 8993 0422 many alterations and repairs made St Mary’s, Acton [email protected] to the church. It was substantially www.stmaryacton.org.uk altered and enlarged in 1837, and

completely rebuilt in 1865-1867, The Parish Office is open 1030- with the original 16th century 1230 weekdays tower being replaced a decade later.

Holy Cross Church dates from Ferrymead Gardens, around 1157, but the earliest , remaining parts of the building are , as recent as the thirteenth and Holy Cross Church, UB6 9JS fourteenth centuries. The porch on Greenford the south side of the church dates 020 8578 1543 (Rectory) from about 1500, whilst the www.greenfordmagna.info wooden tower dates from the sixteenth century.

Christian One of three ancient churches in the northern part of Ealing. Dates Ealing Road from about 1300, though a priest is UB5 6AA mentioned as being resident in the St Mary’s, Northolt parish in 1086. Originally only 13

020 8841 5691 (Rectory) by 8 metres. The roof and turret www.northolt.org were rebuilt in the sixteenth century, and the south porch was rebuilt and a vestry added in 1945.

1BA Grade I listed building, St Mary‘s can be dated to about 1135. For years the church served a Lane, parish comprised of five farms and Perivale, Middlesex, UB6 8SS associated buildings. By 1950, www.st-marys-perivale.org.uk however, Perivale’s population had grown to 10,000, and a new St Mary’s, Perivale For information about concerts church—St Nicholas—was built. held in the church contact: At that point St Mary’s was Dr Hugh Mather effectively ‘cut off’ from most of [email protected] Perivale by the Western Avenue. It 020 8997 7691 was rescued by a charitable trust in 1976 (Friends of St Mary’s Perivale), and has remained a consecrated church.

RE contacts and resources Updated 28/10/2016 2 Religion Organisation Contact Details Comments St Benedict's Ealing is part of a monastic Charlbury Grove tradition (Benedictine) going back Ealing Abbey London W5 2DY 1500 years. For information about visits by schools, contact the Parish 020 8862 2160 Office 9- 12:30 Monday-Friday. www.ealingabbey.org.uk

A good starting point for information about the Anglican Church is Christian http://anglicansonline.org/basics/index.html The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK) has an assemblies website (www.assemblies.org.uk ), which contains ideas for school assemblies with predominately Christian themes; it also now has a multifaith selection.

For all branches of Orthodox a useful first stop is the Fellowship of St Alban and St Sergius in ([email protected]; www.sobornost.org 01865 552991)

Bhaktivedanta Manor, Hilfield Have produced some good materials Lane, Aldenham, Watford, for schools. Source of speakers on ISKCON Educational Hertfordshire WD25 8EZ and venue for very Services 01923 851000 interesting school visits. For more [email protected] info on their education services: www.bhaktivedantamanor.co.uk www.iskconeducationalservices.org Famous and spectacular mandir 115 - 119 Brentfield Road, much visited. Not typical of , London NWIO 8IP Shri Swaminarayan community mandirs. For 020 8965 2651 Mandir information about school visits, see: [email protected] http://londonmandir.baps.org/visit- http://londonmandir.baps.org/ us/school-visits/ Hindu 22 King Street, ,UB2 4DA Shree Ram Mandir 020 085745276 www.shreerammandir.co.uk 2 Lady Margaret Road, Southall Vishwa Hindu UB1 2RA

Mandir 020 8574 3870 http://vishwahindumandir.com/ A non-commercial and a non- Website with educational sectarian body involved in Vivekananda resources: educational activities. Their Centre London www.hinduacademy.org ‘Hinduism for Schools’ website [email protected] provides a good starting point for learning the basics of Hinduism. There are other atheist/agnostic groups, e.g. National Secular Society, British Humanist Association but BHA is used to dealing with 39 Moreland Street British schools and produces materials and London EC1V 8BB Humanist Humanist organises speakers. They have a 020 7324 3060 Association website for schools with excellent www.humanism.org.uk resources: [email protected] www.understandinghumanism.org.u k

RE contacts and resources Updated 28/10/2016 3 Religion Organisation Contact Details Comments The following are trained humanist speakers available in London. These people might be willing to meet a class at the Natural History Museum, Science Museum or an art museum to discuss how humanists experience wonder in the natural world, through art etc. They can also talk about the non-religious approach to ethical issues. This is an excellent way to include the non-religious viewpoint in the RE curriculum. Peter Silverman – [email protected] 01895 625770 Anthony Burn - [email protected] Leni Gillman - [email protected] Paul Varotsis - [email protected] Humanist (cont.) Maria Maclachlan - [email protected] 020 8908 3622 / 07939 537 670 Will provide free assembly talks and interactive classroom workshops, Lisa Rønsholt Bounds which can be adapted to suit a wide 020 770 2393 CND Peace range of age groups and subject [email protected] Education areas. Intended to encourage debate http://www.cnduk.org/informatio and independent thinking regarding n/peace-education the use and impact of nuclear weapons.

Jain Learn Jainism site has educational resources, including lesson plans.

Andrew Schofield If the Photis aren’t available, Andrew Public Information Desk can arrange another representative for Jehovah’s Witnesses to visit the school or for class visits to 020 8906 2211 | [email protected] Jehovah’s a local Kingdom Hall. Tours

Witnesses available at the headquarters and Aristos and Marilina Photi printery in Millhill: ([email protected]; 07956 https://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs- 198445) come recommended by witnesses/offices/britain/ Ravenor Primary School. 15 Grange Road, London For tours of the Synagogue or talks W5 5QB Ealing Synagogue in schools, contact Basil Mann, 0208 020 8579-4894 568 3779. http://ealingsynagogue.org.uk/ Lynton Avenue London W13 0EB Ealing Liberal For school visits contact Arnold T: 020 8997 0528 Synagogue Aarons, 0208 567 8521 http://www.ealingliberalsynagogue .org.uk/ Jewish The Department of Education & 80 East End Road, London N3 2SY Professional Development has 020 8349 5620 Resource Centres in which teachers http://www.lbc.ac.uk/ and students on courses can prepare Centre for materials and lessons, carry out Jewish Large site houses Leo Baeck research and borrow books, Education College for training progressive electronic equipment and materials rabbis, Bible garden, primary from the extensive lending libraries. school and mikva. For security reasons you need to phone before visiting.

RE contacts and resources Updated 28/10/2016 4 Religion Organisation Contact Details Comments Largest for Dawoodi Bohra Rowdell Road Muslims in Europe. To arrange an Al Masjid ul Northolt, Middlesex UB5 6AG educational visit, please contact: Husseini 020 8841 5623 Mr Bashir Jariwala [email protected] 020 8845 1221 www.londonjamaat.com [email protected] Montague Waye Central Jamia Masjid, Southall, UB2 5PA Contact Iman Bismillah to arrange Southall Tel: 8574 5115 school visits (07968 527793) www.southallmosque.org.uk 7 Bridges Place Parsons Green, London SW6 4HW Charitable organisation providing Discover 020 7471 8275 educational material about Islam. Muslim [email protected] Will arrange visits to . www.discoverislam.co.uk Comparatively small Shia Muslim 1-7 Cromwell Gardens, community with spectacular London SW7 2SL building. Located opposite the Ismaili Centre 020 7581 2071 Museum of Natural History and the www.theismaili.org/cms/807/The- Victoria and Albert Museum. Tours Ismaili-Centre-London for school parties on written request. Has a bookshop with books for Brownlow Road children. To arrange a visit to the Islamic London W13 West London Islamic Centre or Centre & Jamia 020 8840 4140 request an Imam or community Masjid www.wliconline.org worker to speak at your school, please call 07790 388993. 282 Western Road, Southall, Middlesex UB2 5JT Sri Guru Ravidass Ravidassia 020 8574 0245 Sabha www.gururavidas.org [email protected] 62 Queensdale Road, London The is a short walk from Wll 4SG Central Shepherds Bush tube station and for 020 7603 2789 Gurdwara many in Ealing more easily www.centralgurdwara.org.uk accessible than Southall. Sikh [email protected]

45 Villiers Road, Southall, Middx Housed in a former church, this Guru Granth UB1 3BS gurdwara was founded in 1969 by Gurdwara 020 8867 9117 Sardar Mal Singh Mangat.

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King Street, Southall UB2 4DQ Representing the needs and Guru Nanak Darbar 020 8571 3265/020 8574 4651 aspirations of the Afghan Gurdwara Facebook Page community in the . The first diwan (congregational meeting) of the Southall Ramgarhia Community was at the Dara Bingo 53-57 Oswald Road, Hall on Beaconsfield Road for the Southall UB1 1HN celebration of Maharaj Jassa Singh Ramgharia Sabha 020 8571 6904 Day in 1966. The present site was www.ramgarhia.org purchased in 1969. Extensive rebuilding work was completed in 1981, with further renovation taking place in 1984/5 and again in 1998/9. The Guru Amardas gurdwara was established under the patronage of 1A Clifton Road Sri Guru Amardas Sant Baba Jaswant Singh Ji in a Sikh (cont.) Southall, Middlesex UB2 5QP Gurmat house in Clifton Road in the early 020 8570 1210 1980s. Since then it has developed into a large complex. 2/8 Park Avenue, Southall, Middx UB2 4NP and The gurdwara on Havelock Road, Shri Guru Singh Havelock Rd, Southall, Middx UB2 opened in 2003 is the largest Sikh Sabha 4NP temple outside . www.sgsss.org

The premises house a bookshop that also stocks objects related to the panj 10 Featherstone Road kakke, the external symbols worn by Sikh Missionary Southall, Middx members of the Khalsa. Audio- Society 020 8574 1902 visual material, such as cassettes of www.sikhmissionarysociety.org devotional music and videos on the lives of the Gurus is also available.

Zoroastrian House is a religious, cultural and social centre for the 88 Compayne Gardens, West Parsee and Irani Zoroastrian Zoroastrian Zoroastrian , NW6 3RU Community, and is registered as a (or Parsee) House 020 7328 6018 place of worship. It has a library, http://www.ztfe.com/index.html will give information and advice and will host visits.

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