Our projects – Good Faith

Here you can read about some the projects the Good Faith Foundation supports, including some of our past projects.

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The Warm Welcome Campaign

Launched in 2022, the Warm Welcome Campaign has a bold purpose to enable a more deeply connected society where we all have access to welcoming community spaces.

ChurchWorks

Launched in 2021, ChurchWorks is a unique platform that enables churches to work together, and with government, to find new and better ways to support the most vulnerable in our communities.

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Bristol Thriving Communities is a local expression of lots of Good Faith’s work. The project has three key aims: to develop and strengthen inter-church partnership; to invest in building cohesive communities through Bristol Warm Welcome Spaces; and creating opportunities for the church to strategically partner with city partners.

Past Projects

Your Neighbour

Your Neighbour was a network of more than 1,000 churches from more than 40 denominations, established in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. It delivered capacity building support to churches, ran a national helpline, and helped churches and government liaise more effectively, including working with Stewardship to support the UK Church’s move from pandemic response to […]

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Bristol Welcome Hubs

Since 2022, Good Faith Partnership has coordinated a series of Welcome Hubs for Ukrainians living in Bristol. These spaces communicate an ongoing warm welcome, and offer an infrastructure for support, engagement and integration to new arrivals.

Closer To Home

Developed after first hand experience of the disruption caused by asylum accommodation being run at arm’s length from local government, Asylum Devolution explored what a more devolved, place based approach could look like instead. Working with The Housing Festival and NACCOM, and building on lived experience research published in Treat Us Like Humans, we spoke […]

Faith in Communities

As the UK looked to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic, Faith in Communities worked to build more effective, impactful partnerships between government and the UK’s faith communities. The project’s Stepping Up, Stepping Out report was launched with the Bishop of London and the Minister for Faith in June 2021, setting out the current and future […]

Faith in Prisons

Faith in Prisons was delivered in collaboration with the Edward Cadbury Centre for the Public Understanding of Religion at the University of Birmingham, exploring the impact of faith in the criminal justice system in England and Wales and how it could be shaped for the future, spanning crime prevention before the gate, prison chaplaincy behind […]

Freedom of Religious Belief Forum

The UK Freedom of Religion or Belief (FoRB) Forum brings together civil society groups, faith or belief organisations, and human rights NGOs to advance the cause of freedom of religion or belief around the world, engaging politicians and policymakers to help the UK play a leading role in global efforts. We supported the Forum’s Steering […]