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The Race Equality Foundation, our partners in the Health and Wellbeing Alliance, and the Housing Learning and Improvement Network (LIN) have produced a new briefing addressing the future mainstream housing needs of older black and minority ethnic (BME) groups as they converge towards the age […]

Last week, the Government announced there will be an independent review of the Prevent programme, which aims to stop vulnerable people from being drawn into terrorism. The Security Minister, Ben Wallace, announced in Parliament that the Government would accept an amendment to the Counter-Terrorism and […]

FaithAction’s own Dr Anne Smith has been invited to speak at the ‘Supporting International Doctors in the UK’ conference in April later this year. Anne, who developed our Creative English programme, will be talking about how Creative English has been used by the Barking, Havering […]

Based on intensive research in three vulnerable communities in the North East of England, this report highlights the importance of engaging people in common action, curating places of public gathering, and refusing stories of decline and degeneration. The report make 12 specific recommendations. These include […]

We’re delighted that the Government has marked Inter Faith Week by publishing a report that celebrates the fantastic ways in which faith communities contribute to our society. The report, which gives highlights from the ‘faith tour’ of the country by Lord Bourne, the Government’s Minister […]

In recent years, development agencies and donors in the West have begun to recognise the role of religions, and are now increasingly funding faith-based organisations (FBOs) and projects that include a faith element. The Keeping Faith in 2030 conference in February 2019 will focus on […]

During the ‘age of austerity’, faith groups have become increasingly visible and important players in civil society politics in the UK, particularly in relation to rising levels of poverty in urban areas. Faith groups continue to possess significant levels of localised social capital and, because […]

We’ve updated our at-a-glance guides to Theresa May’s cabinet and Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow cabinet to reflect the changes that have been made in the past months.

The Integrated Communities Strategy Green Paper, published in March 2018, lays out the Government’s commitment to supporting the training of faith leaders to strengthen ministering in the British context. The ideal outcome is that places of worship have well-qualified, informed and confident faith leaders, who […]

This week, I had the opportunity to speak with one of our most established Creative English hubs who have been delivering the course for four years. The Oasis Centre in Luton is run by Gill, a community worker from the local area. She runs the […]