Community

Around 50 attendees gathered in Christ Apostolic Church in Tower Hamlets last week to celebrate the achievements of the Faith Health Action Partnership project (FHAP). The FHAP project was funded by the Public Health team at Tower Hamlets Council, led and coordinated by FaithAction, and […]

The Skills Enterprise is an innovative community organisation in East London, working in one of the most deprived boroughs in the UK. Each week they support local residents to learn new skills, improve their health and wellbeing, find employment and develop the confidence to achieve […]

Much of the narrative around the cost-of-living crisis has focused on how we will all feel the effects of this season. There is no doubt that the poorest will be affected the worst, but the expectation is that those who would normally consider themselves ‘comfortable’ […]

FaithAction recently released a survey to understand the upcoming challenges that faith groups are facing during the cost-of-living crisis overshadowing us this winter. Many different faiths were represented in this survey, and the results provide some insight into the most pressing concerns on faith groups’ […]

Have you got a few minutes? We’d love to take your temperature. With winter upon us, and individuals and families across the UK feeling the bite of the current cost of living crisis, we at FaithAction would like to understand what challenges you’re tackling, and […]

FaithAction have recently been awarded funding by Birmingham City Council to deliver our community-based ESOL programme, Creative English, with places of worship, faith-based and community organisations within Birmingham. Designed through Dr Anne Smith’s PhD research into belonging, Creative English carries the tagline ‘laugh your way […]

My household is bracing itself for a major change. After an intense two year period of GCSE and post-16 study, we will soon have two teenagers without an occupation. They, I’m sure, have all kinds of plans to kick back and relax, binge on Netflix […]

As we recover from the difficulties of the COVID-19 pandemic and attempt to address the stark inequalities that the pandemic highlighted, another crisis has emerged – the rise in the cost of living – and it is already impacting upon the most vulnerable people. Energy […]

We have been thrilled to see Café Connect groups launch in three regions of the UK to welcome Hong Kongers into the UK, by providing a place to practise conversational English, make friends, meet local people, find out about systems and services and learn about […]

Having been working at FaithAction for over a decade, I sometimes have to remind myself that not everyone knows of and appreciates the amazing things that faith groups do, day in, day out. When the APPG on Faith and Society commissioned the report, Keeping the […]