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Now is the time to start making a noise ahead of the general election. The battle lines have not been drawn quite yet: the parties are still trying out sound bites – just listen to how any Tory MP answering questions pivots back to economic […]

Pendle Women’s Forum are one of our winners from Round 1 of the Creative English Innovation Fund. Here they tell us more about how their project is going. To find out more and see more photos visit Pendle’s Facebook page. Here at Pendle Women’s Forum […]

Don’t sell yourself short Now – my maiden name used to be ‘Little’ and I’m only 5 foot, so I have a predisposition for ‘selling myself short’! But I’ve learned along the way that it’s amazing what people take in, even when you think you’ve […]

Words, when spoken out loud for the sake of performance, are music. They have rhythm, and pitch, and timbre, and volume. These are the properties of music and music has the ability to find us, and move us, and lift us up in ways that […]

Daniel and the team have been singing your praises at a number of significant meetings recently, including 10 Downing Street. Check out his video blog below. In the blog, Daniel makes mention of:[wp-members status=”in”] MyManifesto – tweet us your suggestion with #mymanifesto The Friendly Places […]

Felicity gives us a brief glimpse into her week as National Co-ordinator of FaithAction… Firstly, let me say that my job is so diverse, that I never have the same week or day as the next. This is an insight into what my job is […]

Star-struck luvvies! We were recently privileged to have a visit from our local MP to one of my Creative English classes, and suddenly we all morphed into different people! Gone was the dress-down feel; gone was the normal buzz of chitchat: out came the best […]

Did you hear what I said? There are four skills that speakers of other languages need: reading, writing, speaking and listening.  We often forget about listening, as it is something we kind of ‘do’ automatically. The work of our Creative English Programme has a special […]

I was excited to find myself at an event on the fringe of the Labour Party conference last week. Manchester city centre had a real buzz about it, with political activists for all kinds of causes making their voices heard. Our event was called ‘Reaching […]

Having fun is mandatory! The FaithAction Creative English team needed little persuasion when it came to planning a summer programme!  Hubs from various East London bases joined together to have fun during the ‘official summer close down’, providing opportunities to continue and cement relationships formed […]