Charitable network Feminenza aims to increase understanding between a wide variety of different sets of people.

Their project the Parents’ Circle, for example, brings together the parents of people who have been killed from both sides of the Arab-Israeli conflict.

One of a series of concerts, this event will help fund the training of women as counsellors in regions of Africa gripped in conflict.

The performances are a collaboration between two music groups — Thalia’s Whisper, a women’s choral group, and Ensemble Phoenix, a trio of violin, cello and guitar.

The concerts were put together on the prompting of violinist Jonathan Ofir, who first got involved with the charity four years ago, with the aim of highlighting the importance of forgiveness in all areas of our lives.

Mr Ofir says: “The idea of the concerts is to begin to try to understand what the other side is experiencing. When a person does that, the negative judgement of them drops and it begins to become clear that your own views were just as limited as you perceived the others’ to be.

“I’ve lived in Israel for most of my life, but it was only last year that I first met a Palestinian and heard him speak. Forgiveness is a long process, but it has to start somewhere, and I think it starts with understanding.”

The concert will include readings about forgiveness as well as music from all genres, from Bach to the Blues, with the common theme of forgiveness.

The Forgiveness Concert is on at The Centre, in Bath Place, Barnet, on Saturday, March 7, at 8pm.

Tickets cost £10 (under 16s free) from www.feminenza.org or on the door.