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This morning, as I was driving along, I stopped to let a nurse cross the road. She was in her uniform, holding her purse and was obviously dashing from the health service building on one side of the road to the shop on the other […]

Over the past two years, FaithAction has been running our Creative English programme with the aim of building confidence and community cohesion. We’ve seen 2400 people through the course and some fantastic results, such as 81% went on to speak to their neighbours in English. […]

Much of the activity of faith-based organisations contributes to health and wellbeing. However, commissioners and health and social care professionals don’t always understand this, and faith-based practitioners often don’t recognise it themselves. I have to admit I do like to watch the odd romantic comedy, […]

In December last year we were privileged to be able to meet with a number of our FaithAction members, including a fantastic organisation known as Faith and Fire. Faith and Fire is an independent partnership between some FRS Fire and Rescue Services and faith communities […]

If you’re interested in how different aspects of poverty have changed over the years since the Coalition Government came to power, you’ll want to have a look at Monitoring poverty and social exclusion 2015. Even if you don’t want to read the detail of this […]

Refugees, communities and integration At the height of the popular focus on the refugee crisis, bold promises were made and schemes were hatched as individuals and authorities tried to come up with ways to respond to what we saw on our TV screens each night. […]

I read today that the average life expectancy of a homeless person in the UK is as low as 47, compared to the average of 81 for the rest of the UK. To look at it another way, if we took homeless people as a […]

Donald Trump has hit the headlines again this week. This time, it’s not about Mexicans… it’s about the Muslim community in America. Let me get something straight before I begin: I love the USA. I have some dear friends there, got engaged in the States, […]

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 […]

In the light of the recent terror attacks in Paris, it might not seem the best time for this blog about the positive nature of faith; I did pen it before the most recent incidents. On the other hand maybe this is just the right […]