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16 Aug 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. As I write this the night sky is blazing with fireworks fromthe May Ball at a neighbouring college. Cambridgecelebrates the end of the academic year in great style. Atthe Woolf we too have been celebrating, not withfireworks,

13 Jun 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. As part of the Faith in Mental Health project, Irecently had the opportunity to visit RamptonHospital, a high secure hospital in Retford. We wereinvited by Imam Farooq Mulla, a chaplain at thehospital and a friend of the Woolf.

6 Mar 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. As the Forgiveness and Future-building projectcontinues, one of the most fascinating and humblingoutcomes has been engagement with peopleinvolved in or affected by conflict. As an academic,you feel safe in your ivory tower.

7 Nov 2022: Dear Woolf Friends, At the end of April I joined the Woolf Institute in thenew role of Public Engagement Fellow. The WoolfInstitute has a long history of publicly-engaged,outward-facing programmes and I am honoured tonow have oversight of the

6 Mar 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. At the start of each new year, I find myself thinkingabout the past 12 months and wondering what I’ll bereflecting on next January when I look back at the. year just gone by. But with the Woolf Institute’s 25th. Anniversary

8 Nov 2022: Dear Woolf Friends, By the time you read this, we will have enjoyed theJubilee weekend and I hope you all have had awonderful time with family, neighbours andfriends. Seeing how during her long rule, her Majesty’sstoic determination and composure

10 Nov 2022: Dear Woolf Friends,. Did staff at No.10 Downing Street break their own lockdown rules? As I writethis week’s introduction, it is the question dominating our news agenda. Butcast your minds back a few months. Fingers were pointing at other

10 Nov 2022: Dear Woolf Friends,. Does interfaith work? This is a question with which the Woolf Institute, andprobably too few others, wrestle. Our Measures of Success project, completedlast year, explored the tricky topic of effectiveness and produced a

13 Jun 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. Each year, the Institute takes a small anddistinguished delegation of supporters and patronsfrom across the three Abrahamic faiths to cities withparticularly interesting religious and interfaithhistories. In past years, we have

13 Jun 2023: Dear Woolf Friends,. Few men have the privilege and good fortune to seetheir life’s vision take shape in front of them. Ed. Kessler, whose 60th birthday we were celebratingthis week, is that rare man. But fortune played only a small part. Ed