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FaithAction has responded to the Call for Evidence from the Independent Commission on Community & Cohesion, on the topic ‘What interventions promote building community, community cohesion and shared stories?’ The Independent Commission on Community and Cohesion is a non-partisan, time-limited commission tasked with answering questions […]

Last month, Anne and Martin were delighted to be invited to present about our Creative English for Health work in Barking and Dagenham at the Creative Health in North-East London Symposium to multidisciplinary stakeholders.  It was a great event aimed at promoting Creative Health work […]

The FaithAction team have been delighted to welcome an intern for the last 3 months to provide support for our work in Parliament in getting the All Party Parliamentary Group for Faith and Society reconstituted. We asked Sabtayn to describe his experience working with the […]

The FaithAction team were in parliament this week to meet with the new members and officers of the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Faith and Society. The APPG on Faith and Society was established in 2012 to highlight the valuable contributions of faith-based organisations across […]

The team at Healthwatch Barking and Dagenham has been highly commended at a Healthwatch England award ceremony for their work in improving the care of local people from minority ethnic communities. The Healthwatch Impact Awards recognise outstanding examples of people sharing their experiences to improve […]

The FaithAction team have been delighted to be joined this year by an intern to provide support for our work in Parliament, particularly as we work hard to get the All Party Parliamentary Group for Faith and Society, for which FaithAction is the secretariat, reconstituted […]

In the third of our series of blogs on Creative English for Health, we explore one of the reasons for its success. As with all Creative English programmes, Creative English for Health is a range of holistic programmes which build confidence, language skills, health literacy, […]

Supporting children’s mental health, making healthy lifestyle changes, going for vaccinations, and understanding the importance of folic acid during pregnancy: we share some of the human stories behind our incredible Creative English for Health stats. Across our Creative English for Health projects, we measure impact […]

This week is the first in a series of blogs about the diverse Creative English for Health programme which aims to reduce health inequalities and improve health outcomes for speakers of English as a second language. Creative English for Health is a range of community-based […]

This morning, Theos and Church Works have published exciting new research looking at faith and social prescribing: Creating a Neighbourhood Health Service: The role of churches and faith groups in social prescribing. If you’re not aware, social prescribing is an approach that connects people to […]