In our world today, we worry. We worry lots. We worry about people taking our jobs, we worry about terrorists loose on our streets. We worry about our kids. We do this because we are fed a constant diet of things to be worried about. Gays, Blacks, Immigrants, IS – you name it, we need to worry about it.

It sells newspapers, but it doesn’t make for a good life.

• Perhaps you can remember when compassion ruled the day, When we cared about each other, looked out for the other guy as well as ourselves.
• Perhaps you have managed to resist the siren calls to live a life of constant caution.
• Maybe you want to but the worry is overwhelming, or maybe you have given up compassion as an impossible dream.

Well I haven’t and there is a growing movement of people who put compassion first.

• We believe that each human being has a right to be heard on their own merits, not as a member of some group or other. For example, I don’t ‘identify as’ gay or male or white or British, I identify as ME.
• We believe that it is right to stretch out the hand of friendship, even when sometimes it feels risky. The rewards outweigh the risk.
• We believe that we can beat the powers of fear and hate with love and compassion.

• Love does not make us weak, it makes us strong.
• Love is tough, is powerful, and can build a better peaceful world in which we all can live together.
• Love can make our other’s lives better and make the future better for our children.

This is not ‘pie in the sky’, it is a pragmatic response to a world that is losing its way.

I hope you will be interested to find out more about us and how we work.

There is a vacuum in our democracy. The political parties are out of touch and out of step with the realities of our lives, but we do not need to let this vacuum be filled by negativity and fear- mongering.

Instead, we can work together and create a loving world where, even if we have bombs, we do not need them, even if we have armies we do not use them, and even if we have borders, we do not see them.

In the past wise men such as Jesus, Siddartha and Mohammed have given us moral compass. They may have had different approaches, but their core message was ‘love one another, treat other people the way you would like to be treated yourself’. It is a common theme to all the religions of the world.

We can unite around this belief that love is good. It does not matter what our religion is, or even if we have no religion at all, so let’s unite around love for each other, take risks for the sake of our fellow man and reap the rewards of a world at peace and in harmony.