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The Christian Social Impact Network has relaunched this month. It inspires Christian leaders of social impact organisations to achieve their full potential. At each meeting there are guest speakers and member sessions, where members meet confidentially in a workshop–style environment, share and discuss their goals, […]

FaithAction is a member of the VCSE Health and Wellbeing Alliance; The Alliance will be relaunching their newsletter on 12th October. Brought to you by the Department of Health and Social Care and co-produced by system partners and members, you will receive updates about the […]

Good Things Foundation, a fellow member of the Health and Wellbeing Alliance have produced a report ‘Digital Exclusion and Health Inequalities’. The report provides an overview of digital exclusion and its relationship to health, social and economic aspects of people’s lives. You can download it […]

Linking Lives are holding a four-day conference ‘Streams in the Desert’, taking place Monday 13 to Friday 17 September. The conference will be exploring together ways in which groups can support each other and others in our communities as we collectively adjust to latest developments […]

The Voluntary Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) Health and Wellbeing Fund 2021/22 is now live. The funding is focusing on providing support to families and children’s services due to a predicted increase in paediatric respiratory viral infections during autumn and winter this year. Funding is […]

Befriending Networks are preparing for November’s Befriending Week 2021 and have launched a range of resources. These include a Resource Pack, with ideas to help you celebrate in-person or online, thank volunteers and connect with your community, social media graphics, as well as videos that […]

The majority of adults think that loneliness is going to be a serious issue beyond Covid-19, according to an omnibus survey commissioned by the Campaign to End Loneliness. These results reflected the findings of the Campaign’s new report, Loneliness beyond Covid-19. The report, which is the […]

The new and emerging National Inclusive and Sustainable Economies (NISE) Network invites you to join. The COVID-19 pandemic, and its tragic effects, has contributed to an economic crisis, highlighting and exacerbating many of our underlying health inequalities and economic injustices. Action is needed across the […]

The Government has launched a Call for Evidence to inform the development of a new National Resilience Strategy that will outline an ambitious new vision for national resilience. It seeks to understand current perceptions of risk and resilience, gather evidence on where improvements could be […]

Centre for Ageing Better have launched a new report: COVID-19 and the digital divide: supporting digital inclusion and skills during the pandemic and beyond. They commissioned Citizens Online to understand more about the effect of COVID-19 on digital skills and usage. The research was conducted […]