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I may have not been around FaithAction for long, but I have observed something that bugs me a tad. It’s faith-based organisations (FBOs) not being realised for the potential that they have, whether it being others recognising them or them recognising it themselves. Very often […]

Francis Wahome is Tearfund’s Country Representative for the Mano River countries in West Africa. Keeping the Faith has been published in advance of the World Humanitarian Summit, which will be held in Istanbul in May 2016. The full report is available here. Above: Acting a […]

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 […]

When we talk about being proud of something, we all too often mistake it with an arrogant pride. C. S. Lewis describes pride as the ‘central sin’ and warns against it. But I want to encourage faith groups that it is time to be proud, […]

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 […]

There is one thing that strikes me most when I visit the Creative English hubs. It doesn’t matter whether the hub is in Bradford or Bristol or Luton or Lancashire – the thing is just how much fun the learners have. The learners and the […]

There’s a building I know in Dagenham. It belongs to a faith-based organisation, who’ve had it for a number of years. And it’s a brilliant example of why faith centres are the best places to connect with people. Faith centres are always about people. And […]

We know that faith-based organisations are involved in a huge variety of social action work up and down our country. The Cinnamon Faith Action Audit report calculates that the time invested by faith groups into their communities through social action projects is worth over £3 […]

Away from the battle ground of health policy, faith communities are involved in improving well-being by just being themselves. This last week I was part of a FaithAction team that headed up to sunny Dudley to do a workshop for Friendly Places. The journey gave […]