Not there on the first page of results. So I added another word to the search. Bingo. Top of the list
It does not exist yet, though there is a very professional web page about it designed by Electric Orange Studios.
It will be set up by The Coexist Foundation
The Tony Blair Faith Foundation will raise funds for Abraham House and will offer advice over its role and programmes. The web page I was looking at is part of the website for the TB, not the Coexist, Foundation
I was going to have a rant about this website. I have not done a count, but the name of the eponymous founder is scattered liberally on every page. Reminds me of that leaked memo asking Whitehall departments for eye-catching projects with which the name could be asscociated. At the time I thought that was probably tongue in cheek, but evidently not
But by chance I heard an interview on World Service. It was granted at the time of the launch of the Foundation in New York, which featured an introduction of the main man by a subdued sounding Bill Clinton, who probably has a lot to be subdued about right now
The two named Trustees of the Blair Foundation are Robert Clinton (not a relation I think, but a partner & media specialist at lawyers Farrer & Co) and Jeremy Sinclair (one of the founders of Saatchi). The third Trustee is named as Tyrolese (Directors) Ltd, " a kind of holding company" set up by Farrers in the 1980s
Although the Coexist Foundation concentrates on the so-called Abrahamic faiths, the BF will connect to people of all faiths and none, across North America, Europe, Asia, the Far East & the Middle East. I wonder what South America & Australia have done to be excluded? (And is Russia part of Europe in this scheme of things?)
So not just Third Way but multi-dimensional way
"Religious faith will be of the same significance to the 21st century as political ideology was to the 20th century" So plenty of war, murder & oppression then. Perhaps this explains why "Europe is out of step with the rest of the world in its secularism"
But when it comes right down to it, the Trust will just concentrate on fighting malaria.
I thought the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation were doing that? But Blair will help by encouraging the faiths to offer the use of their buildings as clinics etc to save villagers from having to travel what may be a considerable distance to the nearest purpose built medical centre
As Dan Damon, who conducted the World Service interview said in the programme trail, But is he overestimating his own importance?
Postscript: There is even a TB Sports Foundation, so thats another modern religion covered
