The History of WIFC

Wolverhampton Inter Faith Group was formally set up in 1974 to establish on-going contacts between different faith communities in a non-threatening situation so that they could talk and share information about their beliefs and practices in order to eradicate ignorance, misinformation and prejudice.

The purpose of the Group was to offer a common ground for different individuals and community groups to get together through meetings and visiting one another's homes and places of worship to find out what it meant to belong to a particular faith.

The Group became known as the Wolverhampton Inter Faith Council in 2006. Today it has over 200 members and more than 50 voluntary and faith organisations affiliated to it. Since its inception, the WIFC has taken on the challenges of diversity and inclusion, which sometimes means standing up against discrimination. The basic concept of dialogue and ongoing commitment to bringing communities together, however, is still there driving most of its activities.