COVID-19

I want to start this blog by recognising that we were wrong! And it’s important that we must also apologise for being wrong. Alas, I’m sorry to disappoint—this is not actually an apology. This has all been prompted by my recent appearance before the COVID […]

This week, Georgina Colton, Commemorative Events Project Lead at Department for Culture, Media and Sport, writes about the upcoming COVID-19 Day of Reflection. The COVID-19 Day of Reflection will take place on Sunday, 8th March 2026. This national moment offers an opportunity for communities across […]

Next week is #FaithinPartnership week! What’s it all about, what’s happening, and how can you get involved? In last week’s blog, we announced that, between 5th and 9th September, we’ll be working with the APPG for Faith and Society to celebrate and champion cross-sector partnerships […]

Over the past three years, many faith-based charities up and down the country have been busier than ever before. Activity in response to the COVID-19 pandemic has included things like delivering food, offering support to isolated individuals, overcoming barriers to accessing healthcare, and disseminating and translating […]

Over the past two years, we’ve learned that we can do so much remotely, particularly when it comes to what we thought of as office-based work. We can have meetings, we can hold workshops, and we can hire and fire people. I even know some […]

Today, we launch our new report—Resilience, Trauma, and Pastoral Recovery—in partnership with the Guild of Health and St Raphael. Revd Dr Gillian Straine, CEO of The Guild of Health and St. Raphael and originator of The Healthy Healing Hub project gives us some background on […]

2021 saw our amazing Community Champions advocating vaccine take-up and shaping national policy and strategy by sharing the concerns and barriers faced by their communities with central government. In addition, many of them engaged (or nominated organisations to participate) in our COVID recovery capacity-building programme […]

We were delighted to have a chance to speak with Prof. Jim McManus, President of the Association of Directors of Public Health and Director of Public Health for Hertsfordshire, about a number of key issues relating to COVID. First, we asked about the ways faith […]

In December 2020, the UK was in the grip of another COVID-19 wave. There was the announcement that a new variant of the virus had been found in the UK, infections rates were climbing, and plenty of questions were being asked about the viability of […]

As we celebrate Inter Faith Week, and the vital contribuition that faith plays in supporting some of the most vulnerable in society, the team here at FaithAction have spoken to Seher Sheikh, founder of the Greater Manchester South Asian Women Out of Hours Support and […]