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HETF participates in World Environment Day webinar 

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The Hindu Environmental Task Force spear headed by Mrs. Trupti Patel, President, Hindu Forum of Britain, participated actively in the World Environment Day webinar organised by Healing Our Earth, along with other eminent environmental visionaries and activists from Spain, Egypt, Mauritius, India and the UK. Mrs. Patel was joined by Dr Shorna Pal, Mrs Kailash Parekh MBE and Dr Richa Soni, all three directors at LEAP Lancashire, HFB's Environmental Partner.

Mrs Trupti Patel engaged with the host at multiple points in the webinar, sharing delightful insights and ideas with the audience such as the benefits of water stored in earthen vessels, the excellent ways of farming in traditional ways with the use of bulls and natural manure, and the wonders of the ecology that a mangrove tree supports and the excellence of planting medicinal plants and trees such as the Panchvati.

Mrs Kailash Parekh highlighted LEAP's key initiatives to increase collective grassroots action followed by an informative presentation on the salient issues related to climate change, explaining risk mitigation and adaptation in context of UN's IPCC Reports, the Paris Agreement and UK's Net Zero goals.

Dr Shorna Pal followed with the second half of the presentation, focussing on the excellent strides that the Hindu Forum of Britain was making in encouraging the uptake of environmental management across all its member organisations. Dr Pal shared important steps that all faith and community organisations could take to increase their levels of sustainable practice within the organisation and ways of engaging with their communities to encourage families to increase sustainable practices and choices within their homes.

Dr Richa Soni focussed on the concept of "integral ecology" in creating an awareness of the interrelativity of the ethical-spirituality-action process in environmental protection. She stressed the importance of individual action in countering the climate crisis and shared simple ways of doing so. Dr Soni concluded with the role of making young minds more aware and involved in sustainability; she upheld the example of the Eco-Festival booklets created by the LEAP Voices of Youth children.

Hindu Forum of Britain is pleased to announce that its Environmental Management research and training project with LEAP, has been successful in winning funding from the National Lottery Community Fund!

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 HAPPY ECO-DIWALI! Celebrate in an environmentally friendly way!

Download the Eco-Diwali - Things to Make & Do taster booklet

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 IS YOUR TEMPLE OR SAMAJ ORGANISATION READY FOR COP26?

Download the Environmental Assessment & Management (EAM) Pilot Toolkit for Hindu Temple & Samaj Buildings and organizations

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LAUNCH OF THE HINDU ENVIRONMENTAL TASK FORCE (HETF) 18 Sept 21

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HETF RESEARCH: HINDU VISION FOR CLIMATE ACTION

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Training on ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT & MANAGEMENT (EAM) Toolkit for Temples & Samaj Buildings on 4th SEPTEMER 2021

We believe that all temples and Samaj buildings in practicing a Hindu ethos, already are devoted to Dharti Mata and are trying in many ways to protect the environment and we need to showcase their excellent work by recording all the hard work they already do.

The team HFB found that there are also temples who would like to do more but may not have a way to plan in stages to increase their contribution in protecting the environment in small, achievable, steps that don’t need lots of volunteers or financial resources.

Understanding the use of an Environmental Assessment and Management tool starts this journey
&
The Hindu Environmental Task Force (HETF) will pave the way .

Mrs Trupti Patel
President
Hindu Forum of Britain

ERAM Save the Date

 

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HFB is proud to congratulate its member organisation Aberdeen Hindu Temple for the excellent children's activities it has planned for children to undertake during Green Week!

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HFB meets New Labour Leader

 

The HFB wrote to Sir Keir Starmer, the new leader of the Labour Party, on 8th April in which we shared some serious concerns the Indian/Hindu community had with the Labour Party.  The Labour leader wrote back on 27th April and whilst this is welcome, the issues raised by the HFB had not been addressed properly.  On 30th April 2020 a teleconference took place between the representatives of the HFB led by Ms Trupti Patel and Sir Keir Starmer and his team.  The HFB considers this as the first step in what we hope will be a continued positive dialogue for the Labour Party to learn, and to understand, the issues arising from within the community.

Those in attendance at this teleconference were:

Hindu Forum Britain (HFB): Mrs Trupti Patel (President), Mrs  Harsha Shukla MBE (VP North) and Dr Ramesh Pattni OBE (VP South).

Labour Party:    Sir Keir Starmer MP, RT Hon Angela Raynor MP, Rt Hon Janet Daby MP, Baroness D Lawrence and Navendu Mishra MP.

The discussion was cordial and Sir Keir Starmer confirmed that he was aware of the concerns, that as the new leader he wanted to reset relations with the Indian community.  He went on to say, he wanted proper engagement and that the Labour Party needed to hear and to be held accountable.  He further added that if the changes are not seen then he wanted the HFB to tell him so without any reservation. He accepted that an apology was due to the community.  His team echoed his thinking to move forward and build good relations with the Hindu community. 

The President of the HFB, Ms Trupti Patel thanked Sir Keir Starmer for taking the step in this important dialogue.  She pointed out that the reservations and concerns raised in her letter to him are serious and require the Labour Party to address those urgently.  She reminded him of the exclusion of Hindus in CV 19 steering group and most importantly Hate filled incident unfolding on the 15th of August 2019 on India’s Independence Day when some  4000 strong group of anti-Indian protestors threw missiles at the gathering of 200 people  celebrating Independence day and created a very tense situation.  She also pointed that it was alarming that some Labour politicians took an active part and voiced their views on Kashmir that were a detriment to community cohesion in the UK.

Sir Keir Starmer suggested that after the call it was essential to make sure that we don't let things fall by and to set up systems for communications that allow for continuous and direct communication with the senior leadership of the Labour Party.  

Dr Pattni pointed out that unless there are channels and systems of dialogue between the Labour leadership and the Hindu community, there will remain such tensions due to biased thinking in the Party.  Mrs Shukla pointed out that there  should be trust and respect which should reflect in transparent communication and be inclusive of all faiths in any policy forming process. There needs to be a practical  action plan as a way forward in dialogue which was echoed by Trupti Patel as doing the walk beyond just the talk.

The meeting concluded on the note that the HFB will be writing to Sir Keir Starmer with their observations on his letter as well as the teleconference call.  In so doing to give a series of actions points that the party can work on immediately. 

The Hindu Forum Britain have now written to Sir Keir Starmer with their observations as detailed in the letter below. 

Mrs Trupti Patel 

President 

HFB 

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Hindu Reflection by Mrs Trupti Patel - 16th May 2020

Hindu Reflection by Mrs Trupti Patel (16 -05-2020)

PLEASE CLICK ON THE ABOVE LINK TO HEAR HINDU REFLECTIONS ON THE CURRENT PANDEMIC SITUATION ON BBC SOUNDS.