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Faiths Forum for London – Faith in Democracy  

By GLA Democratic Participation Grants Team | 24th September 2024
A man handing another man a leaflet.

Faiths Forum for London trained 12 community champions, who created faith and issue-specific flyers, and information pamphlets uniquely suited to the language and cultural requirements of their particular communities. They delivered engagement with different faith communities through in-person outreach at mosques, synagogues, gurdwaras, universities and interfaith events across London.  

As part of its project delivery, Faiths Forum for London delivered outreach to the Ultra-Orthodox community in Stamford Hill, aiming to help its members register to vote. This community cannot access online infrastructure, which created a barrier to registration – even the form that needs to be completed to receive a paper registration in the post could only be accessed online.  

Faith in Democracy worked with the Interlink Charity, a trusted community partner within Stamford Hill, to overcome these obstacles. This was achieved by involving the Hackney Electoral team to approve and send over 1,000 paper registration forms to the Interfaith team, to distribute to synagogues and community centres. After this, flyers were created in Yiddish and published in the two main weekly magazines with wide circulation in this community. Finally, they asked the Rabbis at these communities to highlight the voter-awareness flyers and registration forms on Shabbat. Interlink community champions reported that the registration forms were all distributed, and the flyers received positive feedback.  

They delivered 22 in-person events attend by 2,600 people and engaged or trained 230 community groups/ civil society organisations in the project. 13,000 under-registered individuals were engaged in project, in total. 

  • 60 percent of participants, engaged via in-person or online events, had an increased awareness of the Voter ID requirement as a result of this project, compared with their previous knowledge 
  • 80 percent of respondents reported an increased understanding of the democratic system as a result of your project/ activity 
  • 70 percent of respondents reported that they are ready to use their democratic rights to vote as a result of taking part in this project/ activity