Agenda Item 5: Preserving Sikh Heritage

Aim
To preserve Sikh Heritage and ensure the UK Government and its agencies play a significant role in helping the Sikh community with its projects to preserve Sikh Heritage.

Objectives
To work with the UK Government and its agencies to promote a wider appreciation of the enormously rich cultural heritage of the Sikh Nation.

With the help of the UK Government to catalogue, photograph, digitise and conserve Guru Granth Sahib manuscripts, particularly those written at the time of the Gurus or by the Gurus themselves.

To work with the UK Government and its agencies, such as English Heritage, to develop a co-ordinated approach to the establishment of a network of Sikh Museums in the UK and develop a national database of artefacts kept in the UK.

To lobby the UK Government and relevant UN bodies to designate appropriate Sikh sites as World Heritage sites so they can be properly preserved for future generations.