Vikas Khoshal is from Huddersfield and is a member of the Hindu Temple where he is involved in organising events for religious festivals. He is extremely interested in using sports as a mode of bringing young people together on social cohesion activities and has had a lot of experience of coaching young people in football and other sports to improve their leadership and communication skills.
Kiran Chana (16 years old) has recently finished her GCSEs and is going on to study Biology, Physics, Chemistry and Psychology at A-Level. She comes from a religious Sikh family and has grown up in the multicultural environment of Leeds. She actively utilizes various expressions of performing arts including painting, dance and theatre to perform in school and extra curriculum activities.
Nilesh Shah (25 years old) belongs to the Jain faith. He is studying Sports Therapy at the University of Huddersfield and sees sport as an inventive way of integrating people of different faiths.
Hannah Shah (21 years old) is a Baha’i from Sheffield, and is currently studying Economics at the University of Leeds. She was a speaker at the Yorkshire and Humber Annual Conference last year and because of that event she decided to become a part of the council.
Bhupesh Limbachia (23 year old) is a Hindu studying IT at Thomas Danby College in Leeds. He also works as an administrator at Technorth in Leeds with people who have learning difficulties.
Akeel Hussain (25 years old) is a Muslim and is currently working at Bradford College as a Connexions Personal Adviser providing support and pastoral care to college students. He has been actively involved in many interfaith activities and events for young people.
Imran Hafeez (25 years old) is a youth development co-ordinator for a local youth partnership in Bradford. He has been previously involved in international programmes in Switzerland and Poland around different religions in the European Union working and coexisting together. He enjoys learning about other faiths and sharing knowledge about his own faith, Islam, as he believes that there is a lot to be learned from different religions and by sharing this we can all work and live together as one community.
Xhristien Ward-Farrell (19 years old) is a creative, inspirational, compassionate, forward thinking and intelligent young Christian from Leeds. She believes that through United Faiths she will get the encouragement and opportunity to fulfil her potential and be a role model for her generation and more to come.
Shazia Shah (24 years old) is a Muslim who was born and brought up in Bradford. She graduated from the University of Leeds in 2005 and is currently working for an educational charity based in Leeds. Shazia decided she wanted to be a part of United Faiths as she believes it provides her with an open platform to share her faith and experiences.
Nora Mayer (24 years old) is the forum Secretary and has just finished her Masters in Medieval Literature. She is going on to do her PhD in Medieval Literature at York University this autumn. She belongs to the Baha’i faith and hopes to learn from other faiths and to share her own beliefs with others.
