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A new guide from Shared Lives Plus (one of our partners in the Health and Wellbeing Alliance) explores the role that voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations play in helping people to benefit from personal health budgets. Through close partnership working with statutory services, voluntary and […]

Communities Secretary Sajid Javid has announced £144,261 of funding for a new programme to support universities in tackling antisemitism on campus. The programme will be delivered by the Holocaust Educational Trust and the Union of Jewish Students and will involve 200 students and university leaders from across the country visiting […]

The Prime Minister has set out how government is tackling loneliness and combating social isolation, as the government accepts a series of recommendations from the Jo Cox Commission on Loneliness. These include appointing a ministerial lead on loneliness. The Minister for Sport and Civil Society […]

We recently had the pleasure of speaking to Julie D’Souza Walsh from The Furnival, a community hub in Sheffield. Working largely with young people through the mentoring and therapeutic project ‘Cellar Space’, they have branched out more recently to include Creative English, after school clubs, […]

USPG – United Society Partners in the Gospel – is a mission agency of the Church of England. It is currently running a survey to explore what amazing things faith-based organisations are doing in the UK, from all faith traditions. It is also interested in […]

A report from the Church Urban Fund, titled Ingredients for Action: Understanding and Responding to Food Poverty, looks into household food insecurity in Britain in terms of hunger, anxiety, isolation, and money. For example, it finds that 1 in 20 British adults have gone without […]

Barking and Dagenham Somali Women’s Association (B&D SWA) is a registered charity that empowers and enables women both in the London borough and surrounding areas. It offers services to women from a variety of backgrounds – all women in the area are welcome. As well as running FaithAction’s Creative English classes, […]

On a number of occasions recently we have been looking for partners for funding bids. This means we often search the FaithAction database to find members in a particular geographical area, or who work in a particular field. If your membership information isn’t up to […]

If so, you are probably already a member of Clinks, which supports voluntary organisations working in the sector. Clinks is running a photography competition and the team are keen to hear about the good work your organisation is doing. Enter and you could win tickets to […]

We were delighted that David Richardson, dementia coordinator for Churches Together in Cumbria, was recognised at the Alzheimer’s Society Dementia Friendly Awards on 29 November. David was one of three finalists for the most prestigious award: Outstanding Contribution 2017. Although he didn’t come home with […]