National Trust 'Inclusivity And Wellbeing' Calendar Omits Christian Festivals

naomi24 | 12:05 Thu 16th Nov 2023 | News

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//National Trust members have complained about a charity calendar that excludes Christmas and Easter - while including other religions' festivals.

The 'inclusivity and wellbeing' calendar, which has been provided for volunteers, includes Hinduism's Diwali, and Islam's Eid and Ramadan.//

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12740485/members-national-trust-woke-charity-calendar-excluded-christmas-easter.html

It's inclusive - except for those it excludes. What was that about charity beginning at home?

What A Pointless Exercise.....

Will The Big Boys Allow This Country To Do This?

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Old_Geezer

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Losing the thread happens more as you get older.

12:34 Thu 16th Nov 2023

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Atheist

The calendar was provided for the use of NT volunteers, not for the public. I guess the NT presumed that their volunteers would not need to be reminded about Christmas and Easter, whereas they might well not know about others' cultural and/or religious festivals.

dave50

Why is inclusive an issue with the national trust? Anyone can visit or go walking on any national trust property. The fact that some minorities don't want to is up to them, it's nobody's fault.

bazwillrun

@dave50
but thats what they waste time and money on in these woke virtue signalling organisations, makes them feel warm and fuzzy inside and relieves some of their imagined guilt...

Togo

The strange fact is that 2024 is 1445/6 in the muslim calendar, 2080 in the hindu calendar, and 5784/5(that's a long time) in the jewish calendar. A calender showing 2024 is useless to any of them! It is a Gregorian calendar, the internationally accepted civil calendar used in Western Christendom. Why then exclude the festivals that only appertain to the calendar?

THECORBYLOON

TOGO, does a member of a non-Christian faith never have the need to use a Gregorian calendar as part of their day-to-day interactions with others and officialdom?

What about those of no faith, which calendar do they use in the UK?

Togo

Do you mean that they do need to know when the Christian Festivals are so that they can avoid/respect/ignore them(choose your own option) or need to know when pay day, benefits day, Remembrance Day is?

douglas9401

https://www.rockbymail.com/faith-no-more---1997-calendar-70-p.asp

Togo

//What about those of no faith, which calendar do they use in the UK?//

One that shows no religious festivals/holidays at all? Is it the responsibility of the nt to provide them free of charge to such people, and do they all volunteer to work there?

Togo

Will the producers of the muslim calendars now follow suit and omit the Christian festivals?

THECORBYLOON

TOGO you argue a Gregorian 2024 calendar is of no use to those of non-Christian faiths but those with no faith at all can use them, regardless of whether or no specific dates are identified for religious reasons, can they not?

Togo

No I don't that is your twist. I argue that the majority of people who do use the calendar have had their religious festivals removed for perverse reasons beyond understanding for normal people. You do not know when Lent, Good Fiday, or Whitsun is in 2024 do you?! You will need to look it up. Would it be a good thing henceforth to remove muslim and hindu religious dates from the Christian/Gregorian calendar so as not to confuse the poor souls? Are Christian festivals listed in their own calendars? If not why not?

Togo

I pointed out that it is NOT 2024 in muslim, hindi or jewish faith calendars. I have also nominated you to hq to become the first recipient of the badge that was never awarded for outstanding contributions to the category. 😁