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News and resources for churches aiming to tackle poverty together in Blackburn, Burnley, Pendle, Rossendale and Hyndburn. Just type in your address below and submit.. you'll then get all our postings by email
Friday, 31 January 2014
Christians Against poverty --- Hear all about it!
Safe Families for Children...opportunities for churches to get involved
Acts 435 Winter Newsletter
Please click on this link to download your copy: http://acts435.org.uk/blog/2014/01/winter-newsletter-201314.html
Kind regards
Jenny Herrera
Executive Director
Acts 435
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Working with Volunteers ; A training day for those managing volunteers in churches and Christian community projects
Date: Tuesday 11th March 2014
Time: 9.45am 3.30pm - starting promptly at 10am
Cost: £25 per person including lunch and drinks
Venue: St Catherine's Church Centre, Doncaster Road, Wakefield WF1 5HL
An interactive and practical day focusing on:
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Understanding why people volunteer for Christian projects
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Why the best projects are full of volunteers
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Top tips on how to motivate others
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The art of communication: how to deal with tricky issues when Christians are supposed to be 'nice'.
There will be a 'special focus' opportunity for those who work or are looking to work with volunteers who have disabilities, in particular people with learning difficulties
For more information and bookings contact
Ruth Smith Community Mission Advisor Livability
Mob: 07919 598273 Tel: 0191 374 6006
Tel: 01924 263251
Webpage: http://www.livability.org.uk/church/church-community/
Find us www.facebook.com/livabilitycommunitymission
Follow us www.twitter.com/liveitlocally
Excellent article on the nature of community
Tuesday, 28 January 2014
Work Clubs and Enterprise Clubs
Funding continues to be available from the DWP Job Centre + network to organisations who are interested in starting to deliver Work Clubs and Enterprise Clubs. There are currently over 100 Work Clubs in the District, most operate on a part time basis and serve their local community. If you are interested and think your organisation can contribute help and support please see the link below or phone for more details.
http://www.dwp.gov.uk/adviser/updates/work-clubs/#setting
If you have any queries or feedback regarding any of the information in the bulletin please do not hesitate to contact me.
lynda.gibson@dwp.gsi.gov.uk 01254 343734
Monday, 27 January 2014
The Estate we are In
This is your invitation to an event Together Lancashire is putting on at
The Salvation Army, Preston, PR1 7N
on Wednesday, March 19th 2014 from 10.00 to 3.30 pm.
The conference is about Christian Ministry and Engagement in parishes or circuits in Urban Priority Areas or where there are deprived Council / Social Housing Estates.
Our keynote speaker/facilitator will be Bishop Laurie Green of the National Estates Churches Network. We hope to draw together church leaders, church planters and community activists from across Lancashire. Some of them have already met together to share experiences and a number attended the conference Laurie and National Estates Churches Network held in Manchester in October.
We are planning for the day to be very interactive with lots of workshop groups and sharing of stories leaving with a deeper understanding of how we can better support some of our most vulnerable communities. (The day should be of interest to clergy, community workers, church planters, activists or mission minded congregation members living or working in such neighbourhoods. The focus is likely to be on work in traditional mainly white working class areas rather than on multicultural inner cities, though we recognize the diversity of neighbourhoods even within a single parish.)
The event is free but places are limited: Book tickets here.. if you want to secure a place and your free lunch
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-estate-we-are-on-tickets-10332880925
Further information will be sent out close to the time of the event to those who have booked.
If you have any problems with using this online booking system please contact us.
Just Love Lent - Church Urban Fund lent resources
Just Love Lent - Church Urban Fund lent resources Everyone longs for love. Who could possibly be against it? It seems uncontroversial. Jesus was the only human to love perfectly. The response of his fellow humans was to execute him brutally. Love is more controversial more disruptive than we realise. |
| Money speaks louder than works - latest CUF research report plus a reminder about our ABCD training event The aim of this research is to deepen our understanding of churchgoers' experience of, and attitudes towards, credit unions and so shed light on how best to encourage future engagement. The report makes recommendations about the steps that need to be taken to significantly increase membership of credit unions amongst churchgoers. These recommendations will help to encourage churchgoers to become more active supporters of credit unions, by deepening their knowledge and understanding of the sector and its value. You can download copies of the full report and the executive summary from the CUF website. The full research findings will be presented at a Synod fringe event: 1.15pm on Wednesday 12 February. If you would like to attend this event please email Bethany Eckley. Our training day on Asset-based Community Development takes place at Carr's Lane Baptist Church, Birmingham from 10am to 4pm on Thursday 10 April, 2014. Tickets cost £15 to include lunch and refreshments. Tickets and further information are available here. |
Friday, 24 January 2014
Food Bank activity in Lancashire 2013
Greg Smith
Development Co-ordinator Together Lancashire / Preston Christian Action Network
Phone - Mobile 07726177044
Together Lancashire, registered office Church House, Blackburn BB1 5AA
Registered Charity no 1147848 Registered company no 07966145
Together Lancashire Website http://www.cuf.org.uk/together-lancashire
See also PCAN Website www.pcan.org.uk or and
BLOG http://prestonchristianactionnetwork.blogspot.com/ (you can sign up there to receive news and information updates by email)
Together Lancashire ... First edition of our Newsletter
Ten days to go...2014 ‘Mission is a Verb’
From: "Danielle Wynn" <DanielleW@scriptureunion.org.uk>
Date: 23 Jan 2014 15:49
Subject: Ten days to go...
To:
Only ten days to go before our
2014 'Mission is a Verb'
tour comes to Preston!
If you haven't already booked on then we would love it if you could join us to learn all about 'doing' MISSION.
If you're a church leader, involved in youth or children's ministry, a Christian parent or a teenager exploring mission or leadership, Mission is a Verb is designed for you. Bible-based teaching and discussion, offering a practical approach to working alongside children, young people and families in your church; reaching out to your community and helping faith stick through mission.
4 FEBRUARY 2014
7pm to 9.30pm
Tanterton Christian Fellowship, Kidsgrove, Ingol PR2 7BX
To book or find out more information click here:
www.scriptureunion.org.uk/nwtraining
Animated film on the reality of welfare reform
Wednesday, 22 January 2014
North of England Fairness Conference - 25th February
Dear All
Please find attached an invitation to the North of England Fairness Conference to be held on Tuesday 25th February 2013 at Blackpool Tower. The itinerary (to date) is on page 2 of the PDF document. at https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/89023969/Invitation%20and%20Itnierary%20North%20of%20England%20Fairness%20Conf.pdf
If you would like to attend, please click on the button and book your place via the Council Website.
I am delighted to inform you that there is no charge for this conference as it has been sponsored by Public Health England, however there will be a voluntary collection during the lunch with proceeds going to the Blackpool Foodbank Partnership.
I hope to see many of you there, it promises to be a fantastic event.
Best wishes
Dr Arif Rajpura
Director of Public Health
Blackpool Council
Blackpool Football Stadium
Seasiders Way
Blackpool
Lancs, FY1 6JX
Tel: 01253 476361
Monday, 20 January 2014
Creative Employment Programme - deadline 14 February 2014
http://creative-employment.co.uk/the-creative-employment-programme
EAGA Charitable Trust Grant Programme - deadline 7 February 2014
http://www.eagacharitabletrust.org/index.php/grants-offered
About The Together in Service Fund
FaithAction will be administering a pot of £160,000 over 2 years. This is available as 1:1 match-funding for small grants of £2,000 and £5,000 the Together in Service Fund to facilitate new multi-faith social action projects at a local level, where there is often a lack of confidence in undertaking volunteering work in a multi-faith way.
http://www.togetherinservice.net/funding/
Deadline for next round 6th February
Friday, 10 January 2014
Fw: Tackling Poverty Together January 2014
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Monday, 6 January 2014
Poverty and Homelessness Action Week : 25 January - 2 February 2014
As we begin 2014 by wishing friends a Happy and Prosperous New Year, we are all too aware that many people in Lancashire will continue to face anxiety and struggle, poverty and insecurity. The rising demand on food banks, the continued high levels of unemployment and low pay, the shortage of affordable housing, the reduced budgets for local authorities and the impact of welfare reform and benefits sanctions have had an impact in many congregations and in the community work that is linked to churches. Together Lancashire is committed to helping churches and local communities improve people's lives through activities aimed at Tackling Poverty Together. We value your prayers, interest and support in our work this year.
Every year many churches and projects have marked the final week of January as Poverty and Homelessness Action Week.
This year at Together Lancashire we are hoping that every church in the county will mark the week in some way. At the very least we hope you will be able to offer some special prayers for local people who are facing poverty, have no fixed abode or are at risk of homelessness.
There are many other suggestions for activities and resources such as written prayers and sermon outlines that can be downloaded from the Action Week website... http://www.actionweek.org.uk/home.html
Here are a few more ideas:
You could show a short video clip in your Sunday Services or midweek groups. The Together Lancashire video is available online at http://www.cuf.org.uk/together-lancashire or on a DVD disk from our office. There is another excellent video from our colleagues at Together Middlesbrough here http://www.cuf.org.uk/together-middlesbrough
You could explore, in sermons or through a study course, what the bible says about poverty and the challenge for Christians to respond by prayer, by giving or sharing their resources, and by speaking up against injustice. There is a huge range of resources available, and we'd be happy to point out specific things that may be of use.
If you are not already in contact with them, you could contact your local food-bank, homelessness project, work club, money advice centre, or community centre to see how you can support them through prayer, donations or offering volunteering time. Together Lancashire has a wide network of local contacts with such organisations and would be happy to put you in touch with appropriate people.
You could find out more about some of the Christian organisations that specialise in work on poverty and homelessness from their websites. Some of the key ones that we work with are
Church Urban Fund (our mother ship!) www.cuf.org.uk
Church Action on Poverty ..
who educate and campaign on poverty in the UK www.church-poverty.org.uk/
Christians Against Poverty
who run debt advice centres, money courses and job clubs for unemployed people
Housing Justice who educate and campaign on homelessness and housing issues http://www.housingjustice.org.uk/
Please contact us at Together-Lancashire if you need ideas, support or a speaker at anything you plan during the week, or later in the year. And do let us know about any activities or outcomes from them so we can keep in touch with what Christians across the county are doing.
Thursday, 2 January 2014
Marketing the Third Sector to Health and Wellbeing Commissioners
Please join our event designed to bring local VCFS organisations together to begin the process of developing a joint offer to present to commissioners, building on the unique strengths and competitive advantages of the sector.
The event will be facilitated by expert consultant Neil Coulson, who specialises in this field.
Refreshments available
Date: Thursday, 30th January 2014
Time: 10:00 - 13:00
Venue: The Main Hall, Gujarat Hindu Society, Preston
RSVP: Please respond to Jo Thompson on jo@onelancashire.org
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