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[quote][u]LIVING ISLAM FAMILY CAMP UK  28th to 31st July'05[/u]

This was a great success as the last one in July 2003 alhamdulillah. Organized by Islamic Society of Britain and Young Muslims UK; open to people from all faiths and cultures. A wonderful oppoirtunity to stay in a camping environment for 4 days away from the hustle and bustle of the city life, on  vast green highlands ; joining eachother not only while collecting pearls of knowledge from muslim scholars attending from different parts of the world, but also in the shopping area where you could buy stuff from different parts of the world including books and audio visula material of knowledge, tea and coffee halls, creche and the prayer hall and while eating together in food marquise; sometimes for prayers in open air when weather allows and last but not the least during the entertainment sessions. One night of special entertainment for ladies only is an interesting event.

Our children had an opportunity to join healthy indoor and outdoor scout activities all three days and teenagers had an opportunity to help younger scouts which is a teaching for themselves as they teach youngsters. The scouts' tea shirts had the slogan of ISB and "Make Poverty History" as sponsored by Islamic Relief who had their stalls as well.

There were men and women sport activities for those who did not want an afternoon nap and rather continued while older campers had some sleep. Special workshops with different scholars continued during afternoons as well while tired mums had a chat over a cup of tea while under 5s played in creche which had loads of indoor and outdoor fun for these kids.

So if you took an air view you would find more than 4000 campers busy in different healthy activities at a time.

The main theme of the camp was helping and serving humanity rather than one clas, group or creed of people.

There was a good number of male and female police pfficers staying in the viscinity for extra security due to the recent and sad incidents of London bombings. They looked quite hard and reserved  the 1st day, but by day 3  they were playing football with our children and joined us in queues on Asian foodstalls including halwa puri stalls when they were teased by some campers that police is not allowed halwa puri and they smiled"once in a while may be" ; 
Some of them were present in talks as well specially during the discussions and Islamic stance about recent events as well as healthy criticism on the state's foreign policy.[/quote]

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