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Alzheimer’s Society has produced a new series of booklets that aim to support people with dementia to continue to practise their faith – and they would like your feedback! The booklets include a brief introduction to dementia, information on the challenges that people with dementia […] Read more…

The Paul Hamlyn Foundation’s Act for Change Fund is now open for applications. The Fund provides resources for young people to challenge social injustice, find ways of overcoming inequality, and give voice to issues they are experiencing. It is offering funding of £20,000 – £100,000 […] Read more…

Power to Change and Community-led Homes are offering funding of around £50,000 to community-led housing projects that will create schemes that deliver a majority of permanently affordable homes for rent or sale to locally connected people. Organisations applying should have identified a site or buildings […] Read more…

The Health Lottery’s Active Communities programme, working with local partners, is providing grant funding of £5,000 – £10,000 per year (for up to two years) to projects that target areas affected by health inequalities. The fund has opened up to Staffordshire, Shropshire, Worcestershire, Warwickshire, Herefordshire, […] Read more…

The Centre for Ageing Better has released Raising the bar on strength and balance, a report exploring the importance of community provision, including from faith-based organisations, in preventing falls for older people. The findings highlight the various ways in which community organisations are contributing, from […] Read more…

Mental Health Awareness Week—led by the Mental Health Foundation, our partners in the Health and Wellbeing Alliance—will run 13th-19th May this year, with the theme for the week being ‘Body Image – how we think and feel about our bodies’. Body image is increasingly recognised […] Read more…

For International Women’s Day (March 8), Age UK launched a new report highlighting the burden placed on women by the care system, an area in which we believe that faith groups have a huge role to play. The report estimates that there are 1.25m ‘sandwich […] Read more…

We are excited to announce that Creative English is going to reach more people than ever before as it is set to be introduced into new areas. FaithAction has been successful in securing a bid with the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, which […] Read more…

On Monday 4th of March, the government launched a £1.6 billion fund to boost growth and give communities a greater say in their future after Brexit. The Stronger Towns Fund will be targeted at places that have not shared in the proceeds of growth in […] Read more…

The NHS has launched a call for views on how targeted amendments to the law could help local and national health organisations work together more effectively to improve services for patients. At a joint board meeting of NHS England and NHS Improvement, national leaders of the NHS […] Read more…