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This week is Inter Faith Week! Inter Faith Week is a time each year to strengthen inter faith relations at all levels, celebrate the contribution that faith groups make to their neighbourhoods and to wider society, and to increase understanding between people of religious and […]

Members who have been following our work for some time will know about the Faith Covenant. For those who don’t, the Faith Covenant is a framework to facilitate effective partnership working between local authorities and faith groups. It has been adopted by 28 local authorities […]

It seems that we increasingly lurk from one crisis to another. The horrors of the last week in the Middle East can stir our emotions in many ways and it is right that we should be attentive to the suffering of others wherever they are. […]

Here is a quick rundown of what we’ve achieved in the past three months, and a look ahead to a series of new projects and events that are just getting going.   See something of interest? Get in touch to find out more!  Faith in Partnership […]

“…in terms of addressing health inequalities … partnership working and trust-building … we probably achieved more in the last three years than we have in the last ten.” So said the leader of a faith-based organisation in Yorkshire last year, when I asked her about […]

From late 2022 to early 2023, Love Southampton, a collaborative initiative made up of churches and charities in Southampton which plays a central role in supporting the local Faith Covenant, led one of a handful of cross-sector projects funded by the government’s Faith New Deal […]

As we move away from the COVID crisis and lockdown seems an ever distant memory, we can find ourselves looking back at what we had to do with a certain bemusement. Did we really huddle outside around fires in our gardens with friends, or on […]

On this week’s blog, we’re delighted to hear from Eleanor, who joined the FaithAction team recently as part of her Year 12 Work Experience programme. We asked Eleanor to keep a diary of her week and reflect on her experiences.       Some people […]

As we head into the summer, here is a quick rundown of what we’ve achieved in the past three months, and a look ahead to a series of new projects and events that we will be launching from September. Two New Reports: Inclusive Social Prescribing […]

Yesterday marked 75 years of the National Health Service. Founded in 1948, the NHS was the first universal health system to be available to all, free at the point of delivery. The NHS report that “nine in 10 people agree that healthcare should be free […]