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The Mayor's Office

Mayor: Mr Frank Branston

To: Bedford Faith Group representatives

8th March 2005

Dear Friends and Colleagues

Multi Faith Civic Service - 3.OOpm, Sunday 10 April 2005

As we approach the end of the civic year, I would like to invite you to a special event that it has been my pleasure to arrange as Speaker of the Council. A multi faith civic service on the theme of `peace' is being held at Biddenham Upper School, Biddenham Turn, Bedford at 3.OOpm on Sunday 10 April. Members of Bedford Council of Faiths and the Reverend Jay Macleod, Interfaith Advisor to the Bishop of St Albans, have kindly worked to produce an inclusive service at which members of the ten main faith groups represented in Bedford's multi-cultural community will contribute elements from their faiths and cultures. I hope very much that a wide range of people from the borough's community will join us at this service and take the opportunity to meet each other afterwards over some refreshments.

I would therefore like to formally invite you and your spouse or guest to attend this service. It you are able to attend, would you please complete and return the reply slip, so that seating can be reserved for you in the main hall. I would be grateful if you could send your reply by Tuesday 5 April at the latest.

Car parking is available at the school. The service will last about an hour with time afterwards for refreshments. The Mayor's Office staff and members of Bedford Council of Faiths will be on hand to meet you. You are requested to take your seat in the hall when you arrive. (Please note that you need to be seated no later than 2.55 p.m.)

I look forward to hearing from you.

Yours sincerely

Councillor Muhammad S Khan
Speaker of Bedford Borough Council

Town Hall, Bedford MK40 1SJ
Direct Telephone Line 01234 221620

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