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I recently went away with my family (Rhodes, Greece – worst weather for 30 years so no real tan) and I did not miss the General Election updates. In fact, when I logged back on to my e-mails on my return I deleted most of […]

  How the NHS could be killed by kindness Although this is a blog for FaithAction and has religion and faith in the title, the focus of this piece is the concept of ‘religious’ devotion as a universal behaviour, in the sense that is probably […]

FaithAction has published a commendable report concerned with faith-based organisations and homelessness. The document offers an informative overview of interest to both policy makers as well as community-based organisations in their ongoing efforts to tackle one of the most pressing social maladies within our society […]

Last night, FaithAction were pleased to be a part of the event that trended on Twitter as #CityHustings.  “Hustings in the City” is a collaboration project by the City Hindus Network and City Sikhs Network in anticipation of the forthcoming general elections. Additional supporting partners […]

Yesterday FaithAction held an event with the Centre for Innovation, Imagination and Inspiration (i3Centre) at the University of Greenwich on ‘Starting and Sustaining a Faith-based Social Enterprise.’ Over 50 people from faith-based organisations came together to learn about turning their ideas in to reality, receiving […]

Last week, FaithAction held a Creative English Summit in Birmingham where we invited all the current delivery Hubs to come and hear about the national progress, share stories and celebrate success. We celebrated the impact of the programme, which has now reached over 1,300 learners and […]

Last week I went on a trip to Birmingham to see some of our projects in action along with Martin. We visited 3 Innovation Fund projects, and also the Nishkam Civic Association, where I got to observe their Creative English class. The Innovation Fund projects […]

Right now in over 50 towns and cities, faith communities are participating in an audit of social action across their town/region. Similar audits undertaken previously have been extremely valuable in demonstrating what faith communities are doing, and where. Local authorities and the police have taken […]

Over the last few months, I have met with a variety of different groups of people: friends, students, arts professionals, academics and educationalists and I have found myself arguing against the prevailing mood.  As people of faith, we have to recognise that we are uniquely […]

Faith. That word has not appeared to bring about any positive connotations lately in view of what is happening in the world around us. Faith is being blamed for some awful atrocities that we have seen, especially in the last few weeks. Working for FaithAction, […]