Category Archives: Jain APPG

The Jain APPG & IOJ celebrate Mahavir Janma Kalyanak 2024 at the House of Commons

Westminster, UK, 24th April 2024: Click Here for Press Release   Highlights – One Jain Awards 2024 Excellence in the Community Award – Mrs Sonal Mehta Young Persons Award – Dr Suraj Bafna Highly Commended Award – Mr Chandrakant Shah. MBE Special Lifetime Achievement Award – Mr Nemu Chandaria. OBE Restitution of Wellcome Jain Manuscript collection to the[…]

Message from Gareth Thomas MP

  Message to the Jain Community from Gareth Thomas MP I am writing to you following the celebration of Lord Mahavir’s birth anniversary. I hope that you were blessed to be able to spend time with loved ones on this most auspicious of days, even if that was via ‘Zoom’ or ‘Skype’ or “old style”[…]

Request for OneJAIN Community Award 2020 Nominations

The OneJAIN Community Excellence Awards are an initiative of the Jain organisations in the UK to recognise the dedication, commitment and enterprise of those members that provide exceptional selfless service to the Jain or wider community. Two prestigious OneJAIN Awards will be presented to two individuals this year for their outstanding contribution to community service.[…]

Jain APPG Celebrates Mahavir Jayanti at House of Commons

Westminster, 5th March 2019 The Institute of Jainology (IoJ), the international Jain organisation promoting Jainism in government and inter-religious affairs, held its Jain All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) met at the House of Commons (HoC) to celebrate the birth anniversary of its 24th and last enlightened teacher, Lord Mahaveer. The Jain APPG was organised as[…]

A proud moment – First ever Jain at the Cenotaph

Sunday November 11th was a historic day. It marked the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, the Great War in which 1.3m Indians fought alongside soldiers from the commonwealth and a large number sacrificed their lives Many Jain community leaders participate annually in local Remembrance Day services. However for Jains, this was[…]

16th Annual Ahimsa Day Celebration at the House of Commons

The Jain All Party Parliamentary Group and One JAIN, UK celebrates its 16th Ahimsa Day at the House of Commons

The Institute of Jainology (IoJ) and the Jain All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) celebrated their annual Ahimsa Day today at the House of Commons, to mark the Jain tenet of Ahimsa (non-violence),

OneJAIN Service Awards – Recognising the amazing community work you do

Selfless service to others is an important aspect of the Jain way of life and many in our community are engaged in charitable or supportive activities, both here in the UK and around the world. These include work in the fields of community development, education, food collection and distribution, fundraising for poverty or disaster relief,[…]