Blog

Conversation about the recent Bloom report has continued in various fora during recent weeks. These discussions are going to be an essential part of the faith engagement strategy that emerges, whether that looks like a coherent plan or a collection of separate policies and projects. […]

Creative English for Health has been delivered over the past year in Birmingham, funded by Birmingham City Council. We are looking forward to the imminent publication of the final evaluation report on the first year of delivery, which will show the progression against all 16 […]

The last couple of months have been busy for the FaithAction team. Here’s some highlights from some of the events we’ve had the pleasure to be a part of since January. Tackling inequalities through faith and community partnership workshop In January, we joined together with […]

On 14th March in City Council House in Coventry, a group of faith leaders gathered with council representatives. They were there to officially launch their new Faith Partnership, a strategic body that will facilitate closer partnership working between the local authority and faith groups, opening […]

It was my birthday recently and, strangely, I was looking forward to the day. Growing up, birthdays were not a big thing. The Singletons made more of Christmas, which of course is a birthday of sorts but at Christmas everybody gets to exchange gifts. Christmas […]

Around 50 attendees gathered in Christ Apostolic Church in Tower Hamlets last week to celebrate the achievements of the Faith Health Action Partnership project (FHAP). The FHAP project was funded by the Public Health team at Tower Hamlets Council, led and coordinated by FaithAction, and […]

As Rishi Sunak reaches 100 days in office, I wanted to take the opportunity to revisit the Ten for Number 10 list I put together when he initially took office. In my previous blog, I expanded on 5 of the points (coloured in grey below), […]

The Skills Enterprise is an innovative community organisation in East London, working in one of the most deprived boroughs in the UK. Each week they support local residents to learn new skills, improve their health and wellbeing, find employment and develop the confidence to achieve […]

The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Left Behind Neighbourhoods recently held an inquiry into levelling up, giving contributors an opportunity to assess the extent to which the government’s Levelling Up White Paper aligns with the needs and aspirations of people living in ‘left behind’ neighbourhoods across […]

Much of the narrative around the cost-of-living crisis has focused on how we will all feel the effects of this season. There is no doubt that the poorest will be affected the worst, but the expectation is that those who would normally consider themselves ‘comfortable’ […]