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Each year a number of people receive Honours for services to inter faith work or community cohesion. The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) is particularly keen to recognise those who have contributed to building integrated communities. All nominations must be made on […]

The British Institute of Human Rights (BIHR) invite you to get involved to co-design a human rights “solution” with BIHR. During this project, they want to support community groups and voluntary groups to find human rights “solutions” to problems or issues they face. They want […]

Join the Faiths & Civil Society Unit at Goldsmiths College on 14 September 2023 for a one day conference: Faith Intersectionality and the Future of Youth Work Partnerships. The day will bring together providers from the faith sector and community organisations, local authorities and universities […]

Charities and community organisations carrying out vital work to help vulnerable people are today invited to apply for a major government support package worth £76 million. New funding for charities and community groups was announced by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) this […]

As we have highlighted previously, the application process for the protective security measures for places of worship is now open and will close on the 15th August 2023. The Home Office is holding three online engagement events to promote the launch of the two schemes. […]

Trustees of the Sigmund Sternberg Charitable Foundation were delighted to award the prestigious and unique Sternberg Interfaith Gold Medallion to The Rt. Hon. Baron Richard Chartres, Dr Harriet Crabtree OBE, of the Inter Faith Network, and  The Rt. Hon. Sir Stephen Timms, Chair of the […]

Age UK have published a new report this week on the impact of the cost of living on older people: Tackling the cost of living crisis for older people: What the Government must do. They report that it’s clear that for millions of older people […]

The Inter Faith Network (IFN) has recently updated the resource section of its document Looking after one another: The safety and security of our faith communities. This document was originally created in consultation with the Crown Prosecution Service, the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and […]

Clinks, part of the VCSE Health & Wellbeing Alliance, have published ‘The State of the Sector Survey’, which aims to get a picture of the current challenges facing voluntary sector organisations and some independent practitioners working with people in contact with the criminal justice system […]

In 2023 and 2024, the Home Office is continuing to provide protective security measures to places of worship in England and Wales under two schemes: Places of Worship Protective Security Funding Scheme Protective Security for Mosques Scheme The schemes provide funding for places of worship […]