News from January 2010

Spirituality & Fun

A ‘spiritual youth group’? What does that mean? What do you get up to? Do you sit on the floor of a temple and recite chants for hours and deprive yourselves of food, water and sleep? Not quite. We get up to all sorts. Our annual summer trips take more than a hundred of us […]

New Gokula

Britain’s only centre for cow protection and working oxen: New Gokul was launched in 2003 as ‘Britain’s only centre for cow protection and working oxen’. After numerous planning applications and even a public enquiry, Hertsmere Borough Councillors voted on 30th August to approve the scheme. The members were happy with the design, siting and sustainable […]

Cow Protection

â€œHoly Cow!â€ Weâ€™ve all heard that expletive enough times, but what on earth is holy about a cow? To find that out, we need to go to India. In the Indian villagerâ€™s agrarian lifestyle, conserving natural resources is an integral part of daily existence. He uses natureâ€™s gifts directly to manufacture all his necessities, from […]

Food For All wins an Award

Parasurama dasa: Food For All won the â€˜Recycling Project of the Year Award 2008â€². It was a nationwide award with hundreds of organizations involved. The award ceremony happened at the Juryâ€™s Hotel on great Russels street, which is next to Bury place the sight of the first Radha Krishna Temple. Television and newspapers were involved. […]

Feeding the 5000 in Trafalgar Square on the 16th Dec 09

Parasuram das: The first snow of winter fell on Trafalgar Square as over 5000 people queued up for a delicious plate of Krishna prasad. The event was called “Feeding the 5000″ and it was organised to highlight the global problem with food waste. As Gandhi once said ” There is enough for every ones need, […]

Iskcon Food For Life

Mission: “To establish massive free prasadam (sanctified food offered to God) distribution programmes all over the world, so that all beings are adequately nourished with Krishna prasadam, and there shall be no unnecessary hunger anywhere.” What We Do Hare Krishna devotees around the world bring much-needed food relief to people suffering from wars, natural disasters, […]

Manor School

Bonding with local schools: Manor School children performed the Ramayan to an audience of over 250 at local Fairfield Junior School in Radlett. They also explained the meaning of Diwali which was enjoyed by both students and staff. Children’s Govardhana Puja The children of the Manor School and Pre-school along with their parents had a […]

Diwali Celebrated at 10 Downing St and more…

Ranchor Prime and rock star Chrissie Hynde were joined by manor oxen at the launch of a new book on dairy farming. Written by Ranchor das, and containing 32 pages of colour photos, the book has received national media attention since its launch at the Southbank Centre in London. nov09_web4

Meeting Srila Prabhupada

By Sivarama Swami First meetings I first met my spiritual master on March 6th 1975 in Dallas Texas. Srila Prabhupada had just been in South America and had toured the Southern United States. I was on travelling book distribution with a sankirtan party and had strayed quite a distance from Montreal my home base. While […]

Karma

By Krishna Dharma Bad Karma For The England Coach: On January 30 this year (1999), Britain woke up to an unusual headline in the news. “Hoddle says disabled are paying for sins of previous life,” announced the more serious press, while the tabloids went for variations of “Hoddle goes mad.” The story had made headlines […]

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