Activities at Jain Ashram
Bhakti – Every Sunday 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm.
Mahavir Jayanti and BCF Members Visit :
We celebrated Mahavir Jayanti on Sunday 28th march 2010 at Jain Ashram.
It was grand event, had lot of activities.The young jains performed a wonderful skit.More than 250 people attended the function including various representatives from the Birmingham Council of Faiths, Arya Samaj, Vegan group, Braham Kumari, Friends of the earth, Young Jain of West Midlands and other Jain from up and down the country.
The key Dignitaries were:
- The High Commissioner of India representative: Mr Kartar. Singh,
- The Founder President of young Indian Vegetarians: Nitin Mehta OBE
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Jain Veg food Activity – soon to be held at jain ashram.
General / Social Activities
The High Commissioner of India to the United Kingdom, Mr. Nalin Surie invited Arvinder Jain president of International Jain Mahavir Mission to celebrate 60th Anniversary of republic day of India at The International Convention Centre ,Broad Street in Birmingham UK on Sunday 7th February 2010.To celebrate this very special day a Bharatnatyam ( an Indian classical dance form ) dance performance by an 8-member group led by Ms Geeta Chandren was given to a very mixed audience of different background. Everybody enjoyed their wonderful ,out of this world performance. Arvinder Jain ,Shamy Jain and Jyoti Jain attended the function.
Birmingham City University Awards Congregation: 10 February 2010
Report by Arvinder Jain
I had a great pleasure in attending this Birmingham City University Awards Congregation with Sonal Modi organized at Symphony Hall. I was invited with many important, famous and affluent people of the country. I still don’t know why and how I was invited to this ceremony. I am very glad that I was there not for myself only but to represent entire Jain community. Where ever I go I see myself as an ambassador of Jains and advice that you all feel the same way. This is the best way to spread the Jain message by being a great role model to our children and society at large. I honestly and truly believe that we have lots of talent in our community worldwide and needs channeling in the right direction. On this occasion Mr. Kuldip Singh Wouhra, owner of East End Food plc, UK was given the Honorary Award of Doctor of the University. There are many people in our community who could also gain such high profile and thus raise the profile of Jain Faith. Just to mention some of the guest presents in addition to Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor were
Sir Adrian Cadbury, The Lord Knights CBE, Sir Graham Meldrum CBE, Dr. Elspeth Insch OBE Head teacher of King Edward’s Girl School, Birmingham, Mr. Paul Sabapathy CBE, Her Majesty’s Lord Lieutenant of the County of West midlands, Lord Mayor of Birmingham –Councilors Michael Wilkes and Lady Mayoress Mrs. V.Wilkes, Ms. Elly Tobin, Principal of Joseph Chamberlain Sixth Form College.