  In this paper, we study the phases of the Heisenberg model on the \kagome
lattice with antiferromagnetic nearest neighbour coupling $J_1$ and
ferromagnetic next neighbour coupling $J_2$. Analysing the long wavelength, low
energy effective action that describes this model, we arrive at the phase
diagram as a function of $\chi = \frac{J_2}{J_1} $. The interesting part of
this phase diagram is that for small $\chi$, which includes $\chi =0$, there is
a phase with no long range spin order and with gapless and spin zero low lying
excitations. We discuss our results in the context of earlier, numerical and
experimental work.
