Yearbook

Multicultural Matters YEARBOOK

If you are seeking to raise awareness and understanding of cultural differences you can save hours of research time for you and your colleagues by subscribing to the Multicultural Matters Yearbook. The Yearbooks contain profiles of all the new Accession countries and relevant extracts from the Control of Immigration statistics.

The 2008 Yearbook contains 424 pages of information including –

	Over 400 Festivals – with explanatory notes on observance.
	Notes on 14 world religious communities.
	Notes on over 60 minority ethnic communities categorised by country of birth.
	12 “Quick Check” Calendar Cards for your wall or desktop

The 2009 Yearbook has 464 pages and covers even more communities, 85 in total.

Festival section:

Contains all the major festivals for the relevant year together with notes on the ways in which people observe them, including whether the festivals are solemn, celebratory or dates when people are culturally disposed to be especially charitable. It includes the secular National and Traditional Days when many people celebrate their own communities.

Community section:

Religious communities. Notes including Size, Area, Religion, Ethnicity, Language, Fasting & Proscribed foods, Visiting people at their home and place of worship, basic belief and Rites of Passage including Birth, Initiation, Marriage, Death and Lifestyle for fourteen of the major world religions.

Country of birth communities. Notes including Size, Area, Religion, Important times of year, Ethnicity, Language and Background.

An invaluable aid for all professionals concerned with diversity or equal opportunities whether they are recruiting from, marketing to, seeking donations from, complying with the new regulations on religion or belief or simply serving the 4.6m people who make up Britain's multicultural communities.

The YEARBOOK costs £120.

Format: Spiral bound A4 report .

To order 2008 edition click here

To order 2009 edition click here

NB: It is not possible to predict in advance the exact date of some festivals. Many relate to a lunar calendar and if conjunction falls at an inconvenient time, they may be celebrated earlier or later. In addition, because lunar days do not match perfectly with solar days different temples and places of worship also use different systems.

Known corrections are listed on the corrections page.