Secularists believe religion should have no privileged role in civil and state activities. When we drill down to neighbourhood level, the variance is even more stark. "We saw the Queen and the royal family kick off their Diamond Jubilee in March this year here in Leicester, probably because Leicester is a very real reflection of modern, vibrant, multi-cultural Britain. The Cathedral famously houses King Richard III’s tomb.Built in 1708 as a “Meeting House of Protestant Dissenters”, the Great Meeting is the earliest example of a major brick building in Leicester.Today Bishop Street Methodist Church occupies a prime location in the city overlooking Town Hall Square. Leicester has managed over the years to have leadership policies and procedures in place that embrace and celebrate diversity. Leicester is not just one of the largest cities in England, it is also one of the oldest.The city dates to the first century B.C. What is clear is that there is a relationship; adding in geographical division might make those fault lines sharper and harder to dissolve.
“Isolation” as an issue transcends ethnicity – the top ten most deprived neighbourhoods in England are also some of the whitest and most northern – but it is also true that neighbourhoods with the highest BAME concentrations are more likely to suffer from deprivation. Across the East Midlands, it is 40 compared with 39 throughout England and Wales.Worship in the region has also changed, with Christianity remaining the dominant, despite declining numbers.Leicester has the lowest percentage of Christians of any area outside London, at just one third of the population.But it has the highest rate of Hindus outside London, with 15% of the city describing themselves as Hindu.In Nottingham, over a third said they had no religion and 7.6% of people did not answer the question, both the highest rate in the region.The rate of immigration over the last decade is also shown in the census data.In Leicester, about 53,000 people born outside the UK moved to the city, roughly the same as the number of people it grew by.In Nottingham about 38,000 people born outside the UK moved to the city, while in Derby, the number grew by 17,849.The BBC is not responsible for the content of external Internet sitesThe SpaceX capsule touches down off Florida, in the first crewed US water landing in 45 years. Analysis at a neighbourhood level shows the country is far more diverse in some areas – and far less in others – than the top-line figures suggest.
This can be seen across the city with an influx of restaurants and supermarkets being set up to cater to this new community.Leicester’s Mela (a Hindu festival) started in 1982 and the annual Caribbean Carnival in 1985. A white person could grow up on the coast of Yorkshire, just two hours away from one of the most diverse cities in the region, and have next to no interaction with someone of a different ethnicity. The mandir building is a former denim factory and it has now become one of the largest and most stunning mandirs in the Midlands. Leicester (/ ˈ l ɛ s t ər / LEH-ster) is a city and unitary authority area in the East Midlands of England, and the county town of Leicestershire.The city lies on the River Soar and close to the eastern end of the National Forest. It shows that it isn’t just rural Britain that lacks diversity – a lot of neighbourhoods in our towns and cities do, too.
In its earliest manifestation the organisation emerged as a broad based coalition which served as a focal point for unifying the community in response to fighting against racism.Throughout its existence, TREC has, in addition to its anti-racist agenda, been engaged in establishing programs to improve the socio-economic position of the communities in Leicester.
Census and UK immigration: Keith Vaz and Andrew Green • Despite this growth, the White British ethnic group, only measured since 2001, accounted for 89% and Our map is shows the largest ethnic group in each area: the vast majority of neighbourhoods are grey, meaning white people are the largest group.
Saffron Hill contains the first purpose built Muslim Chapel or Janazgah in Western Europe.First established in 1968 by a group of Pakistani Sunni Muslims, the Islamic Centre would go on to expand from a side street in Highfields to the grand Central Mosque on Conduit Street.