Publications
Ensuring a Level Playing Field: Funding Faith-based Organisations to Provide Publicly Funded Services
Faith-based bodies, and religious organisations make a significant contribution to the well-being of society. They are eligible, like any other suitably qualified bodies, to be awarded a tender to deliver publicly funded services, or to be given a grant to carry out a project of benefit to the wider community or to their own members or constituency of supporters.
However, a number of myths surround the funding of faith-based bodies to deliver publicly funded services and can obstruct the fair access of such bodies to public funding and tendering opportunities as part of the third sector.
These notes are a positive attempt to ensure that there is a level playing field. They are addressed primarily to purchasers and funders of services in local government.
Some of these myths, followed by the facts in each case, are set out below. To download the infromation use the link.
Download 10 Myths about Faith Leaflet (pdf)
Faith in England's North West: How faith Communities Contribute to Social and Economic Wellbeing
Faith in England's North West: How faith Communities Contribute to Social and Economic Wellbeing Power Point Presentation
Download How Faith Communities Contribute to Social and Economic wellbeing: Power Point Presentation
Key Publications
Face to Face and Side by Side: a framework for inter faith dialogue and social action. (CLG, December 2007)
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