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Featured member: Barking and Dagenham Somali Women’s Association
Barking and Dagenham Somali Women’s Association (B&D SWA) is a registered charity that empowers and enables women both in the London borough and surrounding areas. It offers services to women from a variety of backgrounds – all women in the area are welcome. As well as running FaithAction’s Creative English classes, […]

Want a better chance of winning funding?
On a number of occasions recently we have been looking for partners for funding bids. This means we often search the FaithAction database to find members in a particular geographical area, or who work in a particular field. If your membership information isn’t up to […]

Do you work with offenders or their families?
If so, you are probably already a member of Clinks, which supports voluntary organisations working in the sector. Clinks is running a photography competition and the team are keen to hear about the good work your organisation is doing. Enter and you could win tickets to […]

Dementia Friendly Awards highlight role of faith
We were delighted that David Richardson, dementia coordinator for Churches Together in Cumbria, was recognised at the Alzheimer’s Society Dementia Friendly Awards on 29 November. David was one of three finalists for the most prestigious award: Outstanding Contribution 2017. Although he didn’t come home with […]

16 days of action
One in four women and one in six men experience domestic violence or abuse at some point in their life. And many of them will have some contact with a faith community. The period we are currently in – 25 November to 10 December – […]

Thousands take part in Mitzvah Day
Thousands of volunteers, including MPs and celebrities, gathered together last week for Mitzvah Day 2017. The day, which takes place during Inter Faith Week, saw people of all ages and a variety of faiths devote their time – rather than their money – to helping […]

Government launches civil society strategy
The Government announced this week that a new civil society strategy will be launched to coordinate and improve how public sector bodies interact with the charity sector. Tracey Crouch, the minister responsible for civil society, said that a key focus for the strategy would be […]
Annual coat collection campaign
City Hindus Network is working with Wrap Up London for their annual coat collection campaign to facilitate the collection of coats for distribution to London’s most vulnerable people during the winter months. Last year, over 20,000 coats were collected and distributed through various homeless charities in the run-up to Christmas. How can you get involved? 1. Donate […]

Brent signs the Faith Covenant
Brent last night became the 10th local area to adopt the Faith Covenant, meaning that over five million people now live in areas covered by a Covenant in one form or another. At a celebration as part of Inter Faith Week, faith leaders and representatives […]

What can faith bring to health?
What is it that faith communities and faith-based organisations provide that helps to support health and wellbeing? This is a question we often grapple with at FaithAction. It’s something our work with the Health and Wellbeing Alliance helps us to explore, and it’s something we […]