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Sabrina is a volunteer with Sound Vault Studios, a charity in Birmingham, as a Creative English facilitator. She has also run classes in a mosque and a busy community centre, but mostly ran a class with a lovely group in a local residential care home. […]

Over the past month or so, the FaithAction team has grown and acquired three new ladies to join the family: myself, Tina and Jenny. We thought it would be nice to introduce ourselves, what drew us to FaithAction, and what we are looking forward to […]

If I didn’t start by saying it’s a time of change in the health and care landscape, you would probably wonder what on earth was wrong. So I won’t disappoint you – although it’s fair to say that there has been more upheaval recently than usual, with the recent departure of Jeremy Hunt as Health Secretary.

This week, Georgia reports from a Creative English Family Fun session held at a local community hub. One of the main aims of FaithAction’s Creative English programme is to build confidence; as highlighted in research by the programme’s author Dr Anne Smith, many know the […]

A friend who works for a café run by a faith-based charity recently told me about one of their regular customers whom she had been able to help. This elderly man’s wife had been taken into hospital, but he was confused and did not know exactly where she was. Without anyone else to rely on, he was alone and distressed.

Who would have thought that, at its birth 70 years ago, the NHS would still be standing today? That’s quite some achievement – and back in 1948, life expectancy was only 66 for men and 71 for women; 70 years later, it’s 77 for men […]

Sound familiar? Rodie Garland looks at why organisations tend not to look at their impact – and why they definitely should. If you’re anything like me, most of the time you don’t have time to even do your work, let alone evaluate it. And it […]

When it comes to advertising your event or programme, it’s important not to overlook the classics – a flyer or poster out on the street can be much more useful in reaching local people that care about what you’re doing than all the Tweets or […]

This week, we’re excited to catch up with some of the team from the Inspirational Training Institute (ITI) in Bradford, one of our new hubs delivering Creative English with funding from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. I had the opportunity to speak […]

I am hugely proud and privileged to have the opportunity to work with amazing volunteers across the country who are delivering the Creative English programme in their communities. In this role, I’ve been lucky enough to travel round the country, seeing the amazing work that […]