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The Race Equality Foundation have produced an information sheet on COVID-19 and black and minority ethnic communities in easy words and pictures, in partnership with Lewisham Self Advocacy and Learning Disability England. This contains facts and advice for people from BAME communities. To read the […]

The Guardian’s Weekend Magazine have been capturing photographs of celebrations and religious rituals, across faiths, during lockdown for a thoughtful and beautifully put together collection of images to run in print and online. As lockdown slowly eases, they are looking to capture their final few […]

People sleeping rough, particularly those with drug and alcohol misuse problems, often have difficulty accessing healthcare and face a revolving door where they are in and out of services. It is therefore welcome news that the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government has confirmed […]

Shaping Our Lives has been awarded a grant from the National Lottery Community Fund COVID-19 programme to: investigate the longer term impacts of COVID-19 emergency measures on Disabled people; Research the experiences of d/Deaf and Disabled People’s Organisations and other user-led groups during lock-down and […]

New Psychological First Aid training during COVID-19 open to all frontline and essential workers and volunteers. Public Health England (PHE) have launched an updated Psychological First Aid (PFA) training module, aimed at all frontline and essential workers and volunteers. The course teaches the key principles […]

Carers UK have published new research on,Caring and Covid-19: Hunger and Mental Wellbeing The research reveals that: More than 100,000 people caring unpaid for older or disabled relatives using foodbanks to get by Almost 229,000 unpaid carers have had someone in their household go hungry […]

As places of worship, supplementary schools and out-of-school settings are due to open up soon, there are many guidelines and procedures at play that need to be put in place. Navigating what needs to be done can be challenging to many, so Strengthening Faith Institutions […]

Public Health England have published their new report, “Beyond the data – Understanding the Impact of COVID-19 on (BAME) communities”. This is a summary of stakeholder insights into factors affecting the impact of coronavirus (COVID-19) on black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) communities. The report summarises requests […]

FaithAction’s Executive Director Daniel Singleton spoke with Victoria Derbyshire on BBC News at 9 this past week, looking at the reopening of places of worship and the impact of faith during the pandemic.

VCS has launched a new service this month, and are matching local voluntary and community organisations with transportation, PPE, volunteers, funding advice, mental health support, specialist training and further guidance. When local organisations need extra support they can approach their local council for voluntary service, […]