Social Action Projects

Ideas for Faiths Act activities and events

Faiths Act is all about ordinary people of faith, coming together to do something extraordinary. Organising simple, informal interfaith activities to raise awareness and funds to support those of different religions who are working together to tackle deaths from malaria, a disease that preys on the defenceless. By working together on a shared cause, we can help build trust, understanding and respect between the world’s religions.

This page contains lots of ideas for your own Faiths Actevent.  A Faiths Act event is where you come together in your community, your neighbourhood or your campus with people of different faiths to raise awareness and funds for malaria. This can be a meal, a film night, a sports event or fundraiser. Volunteers have cycled across Europe, organised multi faith concerts, and just held small gatherings at their homes. But the most important thing is that through their actions they have built bridges of understanding.

If you have any ideas that you think we should add to the list or want to let us know how you have contributed to the faiths act movement then email the team here.

• Show The Story of a Bed Net film at your place of worship, in class or at your youth group.
• Hold a fundraiser. You can use any of these ideas as fundraisers – ask for donations or charge people for tickets.
• Educate your community about malaria .
• Use our discussion guides to get people talking.
• Organize a multi-faith concert or other creative performance with a malaria or other health theme.
• Make a video blog or short film about health or poverty in your community - with someone of a different faith.
• Tell your story. If you have experience of malaria, tell us your story and we’ll share it with others on the Global Movement Map.
• Encourage your faith leaders to give an upcoming event or regular activity a Faiths Act theme.
• Share a meal with people of different faiths. Ask everyone to bring a dish to share or you can cook for everyone!
• Sponsored events. Raise money to tackle malaria with a sponsored run, swim, silence, dance-a-thon, sing-a-thon, read-a-thon... the possibilities are endless!
• Organise a Faiths Act Day on campus with awareness and fundraising activities.
• Write an article about Faiths Act in your local newspaper or college newsletter. Ask someone of another faith to share their reflections, too.
• Use a bed net to create a stir on your main street, town square or other prominent place. Persuade local faith leaders to sit together under the net – and send us the photos!
• Put on Faiths Act themed art exhibition. Work with a local library, school, museum or gallery and encourage local people of different faiths contribute their own artwork.
• Blog about malaria and the Faiths Act Movement on your website.
• Add a Faiths Act web badge to your website and outgoing emails.

Case Study

Wear a net to work day

Inspired by Faiths Act, the Zionist Youth Council (ZYC) held a sponsored “Wear a Net to Work Day” to raise funds for life saving bed nets. The Zionist Youth Council represents all of the British Jewish youth movements, regardless of denominational affiliations. This year saw the first-ever ‘Wear a Net to Work Day’. Each of the youth movements was charged with the aim of raising £100 by sponsoring their full-time workers to wear nets to work. Some wore hair nets, others wore fruit baskets and one even wore a laundry basket. At the end of the day, over £800 had been raised. ‘Wear a Net to Work Day’ was a splendid example of faith in action, a practical reflection of their deepest values.