Author Archives: Emily Yillah
FUNDING: Young London Inspired – Multi Year Grants
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Equally Well UK – addressing physical and mental health inequality
A major new initiative to tackle one of the biggest health inequalities has been launched by the Centre for Mental Health, Kaleidoscope Health, and Care and Rethink Mental Illness, in collaboration with more than 20 professional organisations, charities and health service bodies across the country. […]
Reports on mental health and essential services from Citizens Advice
Citizens Advice, our partners in the VCSE Health and Wellbeing Alliance, have published two new reports on how people with mental health problems engage with essential services such as utilities and telephone companies. The first is based on in-depth interviews with 32 local Citizens Advice advisors. […]
New mental health resource for churches
One of FaithAction’s founding faith groups, LifeLine Church, has produced a booklet and short accompanying animation for churches based on its own experience of walking with church members through various mental health issues. You’ll need to provide an email address in order to access the […]
Charity Commission’s Safer Giving Ramadan campaign
For Ramadan, the Charity Commission is running a Safer Giving campaign, to ensure that anyone giving zakat first checks that they’re giving money to a legitimate charity registered with the Commission. You can check for registered charities at www.gov.uk/checkcharity An animation has been created to […]
FUNDING: Young Londoners Fund
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FUNDING: Good Growth Fund: supporting regeneration in London
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New action plan for NHS to make better links with voluntary sector
A new action plan setting out to deepen partnerships between health bodies and the voluntary sector has been launched with the backing of key public health bodies. Headline recommendations in the plan include asking health providers to: place a clearer expectation on health leaders to […]
Gearing up for the NHS Expo
Expo 2019 is the biggest NHS-led event of the year, taking place in Manchester on 4th and 5th of September. FaithAction is proud to be part of the steering group for the event, representing the VCSE Health and Wellbeing Alliance. We know that the voluntary, […]
Resources for those working with Gypsy and Traveller communities
If you work with people from Gypsy and Traveller communities, you might be interested in resources from Friends, Families and Travellers (FFT), FaithAction’s partners in the Health and Wellbeing Alliance. There are two new briefing papers available: Research on learning disabilities in Gypsy and Traveller […]
