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This morning, on Radio 4, a report was broadcast on the schemes that have been set up for the elderly by local residents (often by those who are over 60 themselves) to help reduce the social isolation. Garforth Neighbourhood Elders Team in Leeds was one […]

Taking Creative liberties! I thought I’d share some tweaks I’ve made with a couple of Session Plans for Creative English. The beauty of this programme is that it contains 38 pre-prepared, highly relevant Session Plans for all our Hubs to make use of.  We have […]

Do you ever find yourself shouting at the TV? I find that ‘Question Time’ makes me do this, or would do if I wasn’t watching in bed and trying not to disturb the rest of the house. Maybe we don’t do it so much now […]

A Question of Balance, Bed Bugs and Bengali (For those who are of the ‘Baby Boomer’ era, you may remember a rock group called The Moody Blues?  Hence the reference to one of their most successful albums during the early ‘70s!  For those who haven’t […]

This week, I found myself using a phrase that Daniel Singleton often uses… and it has never hit me so hard about what it means. Daniel Singleton often says that faith communities are there to help the widow and the orphan – those that are […]

“Rape is a perpetual evil of war but it is used as a weapon of war to demoralise an enemy…” The quote above is from an Evening Standard article this week. As you might be aware, a Global Summit on the prevention of sexual violence […]

I moved in to a flat in Bow one month ago, which is not as long as the list of problems we have encountered since trying to settle in.  To cut a long story short – we were first asked to pay more than the […]

It has been three weeks since I started my new position with FaithAction as a Development Officer and decided it was about time I overcame my reluctance to blogging and introduce myself to you all.  I came to FaithAction from a close partner organisation having […]

Recently I found myself in a radio studio recording a news commentary programme. There were a number of interesting things to discuss and to wrestle with regarding how the issues raised reflected on faith and what faith communities might want to do in response, or […]

Volunteer Progress I would like to take a serious moment in my blog today, because I have seen firsthand the effect that Creative English is having on an individual’s life. Yasmin (not her real name) came initially to our Ilford class.  She comes from Pakistan, […]