• Major research projects including:
  • Faith in Action looking at the impact of places of worship in different faiths on the social capital in their surrounding community
  • Faith in the East of England (in conjunction with the University of Cambridge) for EEDA, looking at the Economic impact of faith communities in five localities and drawing conclusions for the whole region.
  • Faith Facilities in New Developments jointly with Cambridgeshire Horizons, creating new national recommendations.
  • Empowerment of Local Faith Communities on behalf of Inspire East.
• Preparation of an annual Faiths Calendar launched in Peterborough Town Hall, with the kind support of Peterborough City Council. Revised annually, the current calendar is available on this website.
• Participating in major strategic consultations on behalf of the faith communities of the region.
• Establishing, jointly with the Faiths and Civil Society Unit, the FaithNetEast support programme of events, research and information for faith-based community activity, whose web site is FaithNetEast
• Researching and making publicly available a database of some 2,000 faith organisations in the region, accessible in the Faithsbase section of the FaithNetEast website.
• Publishing guidance and signposting documents on a wide range of topics for use by public bodies and local faith/inter faith groups – pdfs available to download from the FaithNetEast website.
• Holding conferences and training seminars for faith and public sector jointly with EEDA, GO-East, EELGA, Planning Aid and Inspire East.

EEFC is supported financially by EEDA and the Department for Communities and Local Government (CLG) and the Church Leaders of the region.