# Faith-based community groups ask for fair treatment

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2004/06/27/faithbased-community-groups-ask-fair-treatment/
- Published: 2004-06-27T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

The General Director of the Evangelical Alliance UK, the Rev Joel Edwards, has asked
national and local government not to discriminate against faith-based community 
and voluntary groups “in the name of political correctness.”
Speaking in Brixton
this week, Rev Edwards said that Christian and faith-based community action projects
were an integral part of the voluntary sector, yet they often “have difficulty obtaining
finances through grants.”

He appealed to statutory funders “don’t refuse our applications just because you
don’t like what we believe. Judge us by what we do!”

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