Author Archives: Felicity Smith

FaithAction’s National Co-ordinator Felicity Smith has written a guest piece for the Corporate Alliance against Domestic Violence, as part of the 16 Days of Action, a campaign against domestic violence. At FaithAction, we believe that faith is often the first place people turn to when […]

This week, I visited the GP, and while I was in the waiting room, a conversation between a mum and her young daughter made me think! The child asked her mum, ‘Who pays for them? How do they make their money?’ while pointing at the […]

Today, the Government released their Counter-Extremism Strategy, looking at how the Government, particularly the Home Office, is going to address extremism in the UK. Here at FaithAction, we’ve already had a look and come up with some thoughts that we wanted to share with you! […]

FaithAction has been at another party conference this week, and it’s been another great opportunity to highlight the difference that faith makes. Being at a party conference is interesting… especially this week’s one! You have probably seen a lot of news coverage around the protests, […]

Last week was an interesting week for the voluntary sector, with a high-profile charity hitting the headlines! Kids Company supported thousands of children in London, Bristol and other selected sites across England. Receiving substantial support from central government, as well as wealthy backers, the charity […]

So… the NHS Expo seems to be everywhere at the moment and so it should be! With under a month to go, the programme and information for the largest health and social care event in the country is coming together.  It’s shaping up to be […]

Today, FaithAction is launching our new publication ‘Faith and Domestic Abuse: Recommendations for Faith Leaders’, and it’s a fantastic conversation starter about an issue that often goes under-the-radar or even is just not talked about. FaithAction got into this work because some of our members […]

One of our FaithAction members launched a new initiative today, and I wanted to take some time to explain it and why it’s exciting! Community Resources, based in East London, founded the CommunityConnect initiative – developed to tackle the lack of connection between organisations that […]

This week is Volunteers’ Week – a week where we can focus on the input and support that volunteers give our communities across the country.  This morning, I heard on the radio a result of some research done by the Royal Voluntary Service which said […]

I recently went away with my family (Rhodes, Greece – worst weather for 30 years so no real tan) and I did not miss the General Election updates. In fact, when I logged back on to my e-mails on my return I deleted most of […]