State Funding For Faith And Secular Organisations

EDM number 1134 in 2009-10, proposed by Colin Challen on 18/03/2010.
Categorised under the topic of Religion and faith communities.

That this House notes that the Government has announced a £50,000 fund for a prize to uncover and reward the best examples of faith projects and a £1 million fund which national representative faith bodies can bid for to support them in developing their capacity to engage with Government, and play their part in delivering public services; further notes that a majority of the population in the UK neither practices nor adheres to any religion; and therefore calls upon the Government to fund secular groups for similar purposes to at least a matching level, or withdraw taxpayer funding for these projects altogether.

This motion has been signed by a total of 8 MPs.