Author Archives: FaithAction

Many children have struggled to return to school since the pandemic, and MPs on the Commons education committee suggest that mental health difficulties should be a valid reason for children to miss school while fines aimed at parents should be kept as a “last resort”. […]

Funding is available to support small, grass-roots and local charities which are currently delivering services to the young, vulnerable, elderly, disadvantaged or the general community across the UK, and can be used to cover projects, core costs, building projects, or essential equipment to enable ongoing […]

Carers Trust, one of our partners in the VCSE Health & Wellbeing Alliance have released their Adult Carer Survey Report based on a survey of 3,430 adult carers. The survey found that unpaid carers are exhausted, the time they spend on caring has soared, almost […]

Mitzvah Day takes place on 19th November and the theme this year is  ‘Repairing the World’. The theme aims to remind us that we can all play a part, however big or small, in helping to heal our increasingly damaged world and to reconsider the […]

The Greater London Authority (GLA) are looking for new members to join existing members of their Eid Community Advisory Group (ECAG), to support and steer the GLA to deliver Eid in the Square successfully for London and its communities over the next two years. They […]

Crowdfunder has launched a new initiative to support not-for-profit organisations in the UK that are helping to tackle food poverty during the cost-of-living crisis. The Crowdfunder Cost of Living Crisis Emergency Fund will match each donation given by the general public, up to the value […]

The National Churches Trust’s Medium Grants Programme is now able to offer grants of up to £10,000 for urgent and essential maintenance and repair projects costing between £20,000 and £80,000 and project development and investigative work up to RIBA planning stage 1, to support churches […]

The Building Improvement Grants programme is open to applications from churches, cathedrals, denominational bodies, and Christian charities in the UK and Ireland, and will support capital costs such as essential repairs, improvements, equipment purchases, conservation and restoration, aesthetic enhancements, and energy efficiency measures. There is […]

Fellow VCSE Health & Wellbeing Alliance members, Friends, Families and Travellers (FFT) recently released a research summary offering insights into the experiences of death-by-suicide in Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities using responses from community members who had experienced the death of a friend or loved-one. The […]

The Department of Health & Social Care (DHSC) have published a new consultation into pre-employment checks for health and care volunteers Pre-employment checks for health and care volunteers. This consultation sets out our proposal to change the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations […]