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Today, we launch our new report—Resilience, Trauma, and Pastoral Recovery—in partnership with the Guild of Health and St Raphael. Revd Dr Gillian Straine, CEO of The Guild of Health and St. Raphael and originator of The Healthy Healing Hub project gives us some background on […]

Have you ever found yourself opening a gift from a friend or relative and thinking, “That’s nice—what do I do with it?” This Christmas, I opened a large box to discover a strange metal object within. My family—my wife in particular—looked on with bated breath […]

2021 saw our amazing Community Champions advocating vaccine take-up and shaping national policy and strategy by sharing the concerns and barriers faced by their communities with central government. In addition, many of them engaged (or nominated organisations to participate) in our COVID recovery capacity-building programme […]

It is often true that the real, heroic, life-changing stuff happens behind the scenes, usually without fanfare or even recognition. Over the years, there has been work done here at FaithAction, work that has been important to me, that was done because I believed it […]

We were delighted to have a chance to speak with Prof. Jim McManus, President of the Association of Directors of Public Health and Director of Public Health for Hertsfordshire, about a number of key issues relating to COVID. First, we asked about the ways faith […]

As one of FaithAction’s local projects, Healthwatch Barking and Dagenham works within FaithAction’s home borough as a health and social care champion, feeding local voices through to local NHS leaders and other decision makers. The team are very proud to have won an award at […]

In December 2020, the UK was in the grip of another COVID-19 wave. There was the announcement that a new variant of the virus had been found in the UK, infections rates were climbing, and plenty of questions were being asked about the viability of […]

In October, the team here at FaithAction were delighted to learn that we had secured an 18-month contract to support the Faith Forum in Barking & Dagenham, one of Greater London’s most eastern boroughs, and FaithAction’s home turf (our office is located in the borough […]

This year was undoubtedly FaithAction’s busiest Inter Faith Week so far. Each evening of the week we found ourselves out and about speaking at or organising one event or another, mostly hearing about the great work local groups did to serve local communities throughout the […]

As we celebrate Inter Faith Week, and the vital contribuition that faith plays in supporting some of the most vulnerable in society, the team here at FaithAction have spoken to Seher Sheikh, founder of the Greater Manchester South Asian Women Out of Hours Support and […]