Author Archives: FaithAction

Locality are inviting all interested health system colleagues to the launch of Keep it Local for Better Health, Their new guidance combines the learnings of the past three years of work on the Health and Wellbeing Alliance with 10 years of growing the Keep it Local campaign. […]

The Health Foundation is hosting a new event! ‘How can government, employers and others act together for better working-age health and a thriving workforce?’ will take place at Mary Ward House, Tavistock Place, London, WC1H 9SN, on Tuesday 16th January 2024. The event will start […]

Carers UK, fellow members of the VCSE Health & Wellbeing Alliance have published a new report on unpaid carers and faith: Carers of Faith. Recent ONS Census data found that a significant proportion of unpaid carers (59%) in England and Wales identify with a religion, […]

The Voter ID public awareness campaign is getting ready for the 2nd May 2024 Mayor of London and London Assembly elections. The Elections Act (2022) has brought unprecedented changes to the UK voting system, most notably the introduction of photo Voter ID. London already has […]

Are you using or developing digital services for your customer or client groups? Do you struggle to know what to do to make it as easy as possible for them to use or access a digital version of your service? The VCSE Health and Wellbeing […]

NDTi are pleased to announce they have just been awarded a contract with NHS England to continue organising and hosting the Older People’s Sounding Board. Their aim is to have 25 older people (over 50) from a variety of backgrounds who will meet monthly and […]

The £25.5m VCSE Energy Efficiency Scheme scheme is now open to help voluntary, community, and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations in England improve their energy efficiency. It is part of the package of over £100 million of support announced by the Government at the Spring Budget […]

National Voices is committed to tackling racial inequalities in healthcare, health status, within organisations and across the charity sector. They have conducted a recent study that shows African/Caribbean women are four times more likely to die around pregnancy than other ethnicities and that African/Caribbean babies […]

Locality have recently launched a manifesto at their annual Convention in Bristol. It sets a ten-year vision that calls for a “community power revolution”, predicated on knowledge that local communities are best placed to transform lives and create a fairer society. It calls on the […]

Theos, Good Faith Partnership and ChurchWorks want to find out about and evidence the scale and scope of faith engagement in social prescribing across England in order to inform and promote future collaborations between faith groups and those working in social prescribing. FaithAction is supporting […]