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Pendle Women’s Forum’s second blog describes how their Creative English Innovation Project has reached out to the wider community.  I really enjoyed visiting the staff, volunteers and learners for their “Big Afternoon Tea” (and not just because of the cakes!) it is great to see the difference […]

On Wednesday 19th November, we held our national conference, Faith Too Significant to Ignore. Here are some responses to Faith Too Significant to Ignore from around the web. Amy Pether of the Caritas Social Action Network (CSAN) writes that faith definitely is too significant to […]

11 December 2014 was a great day for FaithAction and the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Faith and Society. Birmingham City Council and faith communities signed the Covenant which the APPG has proposed for faith and local commissioners.  Birmingham is the first civil authority […]

I’m not alone in the group of people who are solution focused. Actually, I work with quite a few of those people here at FaithAction. However, I experienced something recently, got involved and I’m now working on the solution. This isn’t just in FaithAction – […]

Last week I attended the House of Lords for the Launch of the Men’s Health Manifesto, published by the Men’s Health Forum. Generally, its bad news for men: 20% of men never reach retirement age. That’s 1 in 5. Look at your friends. Lifestyle, drinking […]

Monday 27th October 2014 saw the second of our Luton hub’s graduation ceremonies.  It was a tremendous privilege to be invited to join this – a real landmark in the lives of all the ladies involved! Staff, students and their children and even a daughter-in-law […]

On Friday, I was talking to one of our members who works with Domestic Abuse victims… it has been a series of discussions I’ve been having with her over the past while regarding the amount of funding they have had cut from their vital services. […]

Now is the time to start making a noise ahead of the general election. The battle lines have not been drawn quite yet: the parties are still trying out sound bites – just listen to how any Tory MP answering questions pivots back to economic […]

Pendle Women’s Forum are one of our winners from Round 1 of the Creative English Innovation Fund. Here they tell us more about how their project is going. To find out more and see more photos visit Pendle’s Facebook page. Here at Pendle Women’s Forum […]

Don’t sell yourself short Now – my maiden name used to be ‘Little’ and I’m only 5 foot, so I have a predisposition for ‘selling myself short’! But I’ve learned along the way that it’s amazing what people take in, even when you think you’ve […]