About All Faiths and None

Navleen is an educator, consultant, and community leader with expertise in Sikh Studies, SMSC, interfaith dialogue, and women’s empowerment. She studied French Literature at UCL and the Institut Britannique in Paris before qualifying as a teacher at the UCL Institute of Education. She later trained as a Sikh Minister in Panjab while working on UN-funded humanitarian projects and went on to complete an MPhil in Educational Psychology at the University of Cambridge. Her publications on faith and values have been featured in The European Networks and the European Parliament.

She is the founder of the Sahara Sisterhood, supporting women of all faiths and none, and Khalsa Fostering, which works to house children in care. Her contributions to education, interfaith relations, and community empowerment were recognized with an MBE from King Charles III.

Alongside chaplaincy, Navleen runs mindfulness workshops, youth leadership programs and women’s advocacy projects across the UK and Europe. Married, and a mother of three teenagers, she enjoys swimming—especially in open waters—and finds joy and spiritual grounding in Kirtan.

Sarah Farrow is Vice Dean, and Chaplain to the St Thomas’ & Waterloo Campuses at King’s College London.

She is a Lutheran minister, ordained in the Lutheran Church in Great Britain. Sarah trained for Ordained Ministry with the South East Institute for Theological Education and completed her MA in Theology with St Augustine’s.

She has worked in higher education for over 20 years (previously as an academic advisor, administrator and lecturer) and has been active in higher education chaplaincy across the UK since 2017, as a chaplain and a former executive member of the Churches Higher Education Liaison Group (CHELG).

She is originally from New York and New Jersey but has lived in London for more than 20 years.

Alan began his working life as a teacher, then head of department, of RE. He has a degree in theology from Cambridge.

He has lectured at Kings London, then abroad, at the Universities of Nice and of Oran, Algeria.

He was then recruited by the Foreign Office, and spent ten years as part of the team assisting Russia under Gorbachev in the transition process of institutional and curriculum reform after the fall of the Soviet regime.

He was then recruited by the civil service in UK, in the Department of Education, again advising on curriculum reform, primarily in further and higher education.

He ended his working career as an Education Adviser to the Archbishops’ Council.

In retirement, he has worked mainly for better interfaith understanding first as founding director of All Faiths and None, and then of the European Network on Religion and Belief, and after a minor stroke, is enjoying a quietish life enjoying life with his children and grandchildren.

Dr Abdullah Faliq is a consultant, research fellow, and Managing Director of The Cordoba Foundation, with decades of experience spanning university, government, policy, publishing, and global diplomatic circles. He holds an MA in Middle East Politics from Durham University and a PhD in Arab political Islam from the University of London.

Faliq serves as President of the European Network on Religion and Belief, a National Council member of the Muslim Council of Britain, and a trustee for both All Faiths and None and the East London Mosque. He is an executive member of the United Nations Westminster Executive and the British Muslim Research Network, a Research Fellow at London Metropolitan University, and a consultant on resilience, engagement, and partnership for the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

A dedicated advocate for persecuted global communities — including the Rohingya, Uyghurs, Palestinians, Bosnians, and Sudanese — Faliq is the Founding Director of the Global Forum for Good Governance, former CEO of Justice for Rohingya Minority, and former Executive Director at the Centre for British-Turkish Understanding. He has founded and led numerous anti-racist initiatives, serving as a founding member of United East End and the Enough Coalition Against Islamophobia. He also co-chaired the Together Coalition, mobilising over half a million people in central London in March 2026.

Karen Wright is Humanists UK’s Head of Policy Unit.

She has worked at the charity since 2018 and acts as Secretariat to the All-Party Parliamentary Humanist Group. Outside of Humanists UK, Karen is a volunteer researcher for Lord Dubs who sits in the House of Lords.

Christina Oakley Harrington is a lifelong active member of the UK Pagan community.

She has served on the central committee and council of the Pagan Federation, serves as a celebrant, and has a long involvement in hospital chaplaincy. She has written on the religion in the press, interviews and books.

Hogetsu ordained as a layperson in the Buddhist Rinzai Zen school in Japan in 2010 and became a Zen teacher in 2022 with Zenways. Since 2013, she has been the Mindfulness Chaplain at the Imperial College London Chaplaincy, running Mindfulness courses, offering one-to-one mindfulness-based coaching and annually training new mindfulness meditation teacher/s.

Hogetsu is the Buddhist chaplain at King’s College London and SOAS as well as the Buddhist faith adviser at the University of the Arts London.

Carter Weleminsky is the University Chaplain for The University of West London.

Carter has over a decade of experience in higher education, working in a variety of interfaith roles at universities and charities. He has also supported NHS chaplaincy teams and advised on equality and diversity in spiritual care provision.

Carter holds a PhD in acoustic ecology and Jewish studies, with advanced study in Talmud and Halacha, and professional training in chaplaincy. Carter is the first Jewish lead chaplain at a London university.

His work focuses on making pastoral care services more inclusive and accessible, with a particular passion for supporting minority faith and belief groups who often face barriers to culturally or religiously appropriate support.