On 9th February 2026, the APPG on Faith and Society hosted its eleventh Faith Covenant Forum, a virtual roundtable discussion providing an opportunity for faith and local authority representative from Covenant areas to hear about interesting topics relevant to them and share learning and best practice. This forum meeting was chaired by Daniel Singleton, National Executive Director of FaithAction, the secretariat to the APPG. The Forum heard from Dr Daniel Range, Lead Researcher on a brand new groundbreaking piece of research evaluating the effectiveness of...

On 20th November 2025, the APPG on Faith and Society hosted its tenth Faith Covenant Forum, a virtual roundtable discussion providing an opportunity for faith and local authority representative from Covenant areas to hear about interesting topics relevant to them and share learning and best practice. This forum meeting was chaired by Daniel Singleton, National Executive Director of FaithAction, the secretariat to the APPG. We were delighted to be joined by the new chair of the APPG, Zöe Franklin MP. The Forum took some time...

On 14th May 2025, the APPG on Faith and Society hosted its tenth Faith Covenant Forum, a virtual roundtable discussion providing an opportunity for faith and local authority representative from Covenant areas to hear about interesting topics relevant to them and share learning and best practice. This forum meeting was chaired by Daniel Singleton, National Executive Director of FaithAction, the secretariat to the APPG. This was the first meeting of the Faith Covenant Forum since the election and the reformation of the APPG on Faith...

On 4th July 2023, the APPG on Faith and Society hosted its eighth Faith Covenant Forum, a virtual roundtable discussion providing an opportunity for faith and local authority representative from Covenant areas to hear about interesting topics relevant to them and share learning and best practice. This forum meeting was chaired by Daniel Singleton, National Executive Director of FaithAction, the secretariat to the APPG. We heard from Matthew Allen and Jeremy Simmons from FaithAction about the new Bloom Report, an independent review on how government...

On 9th March 2023, the APPG on Faith and Society hosted its seventh Faith Covenant Forum, a virtual roundtable discussion providing an opportunity for faith and local authority representative from Covenant areas to hear about intersting topics relevant to them and share learning and best practice. This forum meeting was chaired by Sir Stephen Timms MP, Chair of the APPG. We were pleased to be joined by Paul Woodman from City Life Church, Southampton and Canon Hilary Barber, Vicar of Halifax Minster and former vice-chair...

On 10th November 2022, the APPG on Faith and Society hosted its sixth Faith Covenant Forum, a virtual roundtable discussion providing an opportunity for faith and local authority representative from Covenant areas to hear about intersting topics relevant to them and share learning and best practice. This forum meeting was chaired by Sir Stephen Timms MP, Chair of the APPG. We were pleased to be joined by Prof Chris Baker, who reflected back on the findings of the recently published Keeping the Faith 2.0 report,...

On 5th July 2022, the APPG hosted its fifth Faith Covenant Forum, a virtual roundtable discussion providing an opportunity for Covenant holders to share learning and best practice, and for prospective Covenant areas to hear and ask questions about how and why they should establish one. This forum meeting was chaired by Daniel Singleton, National Executive Director of FaithAction, who are the secretariat to the APPG for Faith and Society. We were pleased to be joined by Baroness Uddin, Officer of the APPG for Faith...

On 23rd February 2022, the APPG hosted its fourth Faith Covenant Forum, a virtual roundtable discussion providing an opportunity for Covenant holders to share learning and best practice, and for prospective Covenant areas to hear and ask questions about how and why they should establish one. This Forum meeting was chaired by Rt Hon Stephen Timms MP, and had an update from Professor Chris Baker, William Temple Professor of Religion, Belief and Public Life at Goldsmiths, University of London on his follow-up research to the...