To Central Hall Westminster as a guest of Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Hazel Blears, for the launch of her department’s strategy and action plan ‘Face to Face and Side by Side: A framework for partnership in our multi faith society’. A vegetarian lunch was followed by a formal session of talks with Hazel opening followed by Dr Harriet Cabtree OBE, director of the Inter Faith Network for the UK, Revd Nims Obunge MBE chief executive of The Pace Alliance and finishing with Parmajit Dhandha, Minister for Community Cohesion. I found it difficult to identify any particular new change in direction – which is so much needed – from the talks, but the event was useful in that I managed to catch up with some of my community’s leaders who I haven’t seen in a while as well as a few other contacts.