Author Archives: Andrew Welsby

Faith in Partnership Week is entering it’s fourth year. Over the previous 3 years, the week has seen faith groups, statutory organisations, and even a Faith Minister or two, coming together to celebrate the value and success of faith groups working together with their local […]

Faith in Partnership Week 2025 is coming! From 8th-12th September join us as we celebrate cross-sector work taking place in the UK at a local and national level and encourage its expansion. Here at FaithAction, we believe that strong cross-sector partnerships between faith groups and […]

  It’s election season. Across the world, a number of countries including Canada, Australia and Romania have been making decisions about who will govern them, what policy positions are important to their citizens, and what direction they want their country to head in. As these […]

Starbucks North America have announced that they are changing their policy which currently allows people to use their facilities even if they haven’t purchased anything. Citing the challenging economic conditions, a fall in sales and concerns about staff safety, the coffee chain will be implementing […]

This month, a diverse group of faith leaders in Barking and Dagenham gathered together to hear about an exciting new programme that will see faith groups getting involved in running vital health-focused projects for their communities. The Faith Leaders Network is a network of leaders […]

On Tuesday morning, Rishi Sunak was appointed as Prime Minister. In doing so, he becomes both the first person of Asian origin and the first person of faith from a non-Christian tradition to do so.1  As many have pointed out over the last few days, […]

On Sunday, I sat to watch, as did 17.4 million others, the second England national football team to reach a European Championship final in two years. This time, it was the turn of the England Women’s team, emulating what the men’s team had done the […]

FaithAction are very pleased to announce we have been awarded three contracts as part of the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities’ Hong Kong British National (Overseas) Welcome Programme from the Regional VCSE Grant Scheme. The programme will be run through partner organisations in […]

In October, the team here at FaithAction were delighted to learn that we had secured an 18-month contract to support the Faith Forum in Barking & Dagenham, one of Greater London’s most eastern boroughs, and FaithAction’s home turf (our office is located in the borough […]

For the last four months, FaithAction were commissioned by Strengthening Faith Institutions to run our Community Champions programme, to encourage people within certain high-risk communities to get themselves vaccinated against COVID-19 and to keep themselves COVID safe, and to gather insight on the major issues […]