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Wednesday 2nd March 2016

The Archbishop of York's Office at Bishopthorpe Palace yesterday welcomed 76 delegates from most of the dioceses in the Church of England, for an evangelism consultation day focused on urban estate mission across the Church of England.

- See more at: http://www.archbishopofyork.org/articles.php/3425/urban-parishes-faith-in-the-city#sthash.xZtSJeeC.dpuf

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Urban Parishes – Faith in the City

Wednesday 2nd March 2016

The Archbishop of York's Office at Bishopthorpe Palace yesterday welcomed 76 delegates from most of the dioceses in the Church of England, for an evangelism consultation day focused on urban estate mission across the Church of England.

- See more at: http://www.archbishopofyork.org/articles.php/3425/urban-parishes-faith-in-the-city#sthash.xZtSJeeC.dpuf

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Urban Parishes – Faith in the City

Wednesday 2nd March 2016

The Archbishop of York's Office at Bishopthorpe Palace yesterday welcomed 76 delegates from most of the dioceses in the Church of England, for an evangelism consultation day focused on urban estate mission across the Church of England.

- See more at: http://www.archbishopofyork.org/articles.php/3425/urban-parishes-faith-in-the-city#sthash.xZtSJeeC.dpuf

The Archbishop of York's Office at Bishopthorpe Palace yesterday welcomed 76 delegates from most of the dioceses in the Church of England, for an evangelism consultation day focused on urban estate mission across the Church of England. - See more at: http://www.archbishopofyork.org/articles.php/3425/urban-parishes-faith-in-the-city#sthash.xZtSJeeC.dpuf

The Archbishop of York's Office at Bishopthorpe Palace yesterday welcomed 76 delegates from most of the dioceses in the Church of England, for an evangelism consultation day focused on urban estate mission across the Church of England. - See more at: http://www.archbishopofyork.org/articles.php/3425/urban-parishes-faith-in-the-city#sthash.xZtSJeeC.dpuf

The Archbishop of York's Office at Bishopthorpe Palace yesterday welcomed 76 delegates from most of the dioceses in the Church of England, for an evangelism consultation day focused on urban estate mission across the Church of England - See more at: http://www.archbishopofyork.org/articles.php/3425/urban-parishes-faith-in-the-city#sthash.xZtSJeeC.dpuf

The Archbishop of York's Office at Bishopthorpe Palace on 2nd March welcomed 76 delegates from most of the dioceses in the Church of England, for an evangelism consultation day focused on urban estate mission across the Church of England

 

Press release and video coverage here

 

http://www.archbishopofyork.org/articles.php/3425/urban-parishes-faith-in-the-city

 

 

The Archbishop of York's Office at Bishopthorpe Palace yesterday welcomed 76 delegates from most of the dioceses in the Church of England, for an evangelism consultation day focused on urban estate mission across the Church of England - See more at: http://www.archbishopofyork.org/articles.php/3425/urban-parishes-faith-in-the-city#sthash.xZtSJeeC.dpuf

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New Parish Conference 2016: Special Pre-Launch price offer... 10th-11th November 2016, Birmingham View this email in your browser The Art of Faithful Presence -   Innovation & Stability for the 21st Century   SPECIAL TICKET OFFER.... You can still buy your NPC ticket for £50* instead of £75 - but hurry, this deal will end on 31st March!   Please click HERE and enter the promotional code: PreLaunch  www.newparishconference.co.uk New Parish Conference 2016, 10th-11th November 2016, St Martin Church, Birmingham Webpage and more news coming soon - make sure you follow us on Facebook. *EventBrite charge is included in the price. Copyright © 2016 ForMission Events, All rights reserved. Attended Inhabit/New Parish Conference Our mailing address is: ForMission Events Rowheath Pavilion Heath Road, Bourneville Birmingham, B30 1HH United Kingdom Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list

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We are looking for a person with a passion for evangelism and serving those in need as well as the gifts for community engagement. Basic stipend is £20-23,000 depending on experience, plus an accommodation package and expenses.

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Methodist Action North West Newsletter

The latest MANW news letter

 

can be downloaded -                  Click here

The Christian Funders' Forum

The Christian Funders' Forum is a group of executives of grant making trusts and foundations. Members of the forum grant more than £60 million a year to Christian work. The Forum meets regularly to encourage the sharing of best practice and to work together wherever that is possible. This webpage is hosted by The Cinnamon Network for and on behalf of the Christian Funders' Forum.

 

http://www.cinnamonnetwork.co.uk/christian-funders-forum/

A Guide to supporting Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Migrants.

Our colleagues in Liverpool Diocese have just published

 

A Guide to supporting Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Migrants.

 

It can be downloaded from here

 

https://www.cuf.org.uk/together-liverpool/asylum

Why telling communities to tackle obesity backfires!

 

............  the idea that an outside professional can walk into a community and tell them that they should do something about obesity, or anything else for that matter is both an extremely arrogant and potentially very dangerous one.

 

http://www.nurturedevelopment.org/why-telling-communities-to-tackle-obesity-backfires-abcd/

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http://urbanlife.org/project/webinars/

 

 

14 April: Experiencing Gentrification in the East End of London with Squatters and Anarchist Communities- Rob Schellert

 

5 May: The Practical Struggles Faced By Asylum Seekers and How the Christian Community Can Respond. – Rachel Bee

 

26 May: Convening Conversations with Muslim Women – Jan Pike

 

14 June: Forming a Christian community in the midst of our struggle for good mental health:  Reflections from The Geoff Ashcroft Community. Phil Warburton

New Money & Mental Health Policy Institute launched by Martin Lewis

A major new policy institute dedicated to researching and finding solutions to the devastating link between mental illness and money problems was launched today, funded by a donation of at least £2 million from MoneySavingExpert.com founder Martin Lewis.

 

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/family/2016/03/martin-lewis-launches-new-money--mental-health-policy-institute

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A thread of emails about sanctions - employability emails etc.

I've put together several emails about sanctions and benefits that have recently come to my inbox via public lists.

Not very comforting reading.

 

all in the context of this

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-35749078

Peers have backed down in their battle with MPs over cuts to disabled people's benefits after ministers invoked special powers to push them through.

 

NO 1

 

A truly frightening and dehumanising trajectory: it almost makes you nostalgic for 1984.

Just in case anyone still isn't aware of the sheer scale of the social destruction inflicted by sanctions, set against their almost laughable ineffectiveness as a means of securing employment or employability . . .

Dan Silver, a friend of mine, has just drawn my attention to this (free downloadable) book of a project he's helped six local people in Salford put together. They 'represent their own lives through photography, storytelling and info-graphics'. It gives a clear human feel to the dichotomy between Salford's traditional working class communities and the monumental, corporate landscape - notably, Media City - that's systematically designing them out. But that's by the by . . .

Towards the end of the book, there's a diagram which includes the statement that 1 in 5 benefit claimants in 2013-14 were sanctioned. The source for this is an ongoing study of the regime by David Webster at the University of Glasgow, based largely on information that the DWP had to have squeezed out of them through FOI requests. The figures are staggering.ￜ Just a couple of quotes from the summary document:

"Almost one-fifth (18.4%) of the 3,097,630 individuals who claimed JSA during 2013/14 were sanctioned, after challenges: 568,430 people, with an average of 1.56 sanctions each. Over one-fifth (22.3%) of the 8,232,560 individuals who claimed JSA over the five years 2009/10 to 2013/14 inclusive, were sanctioned: 1,833,035 people, with an average of 1.95 sanctions each. Of the individual JSA claimants sanctioned in the year to June 2014, 30.9% were sanctioned more than once, and 12.5% three times or more. Over the six years of the ESA sanctions regime from October 2008 to September 2014, 21.0% out of a total of 85,292 sanctioned claimants received more than one sanction, and 7.6% three or more. In the year to May 2013 there were more than 93,410 children in households affected by sanctions."

"The Work Programme continues to deliver far more JSA sanctions than JSA job outcomes. Up to 30 September 2014 there had been 575,399 JSA Work Programme sanctions and 345,640 JSA Work Programme job outcomes."

Fantastic! Get in there! (as the not-so-quiet IDS so memorably put it when Osborne announced the Living (sic) Wage in the previous Budget.)

Laird

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For those who have not seen it, do view this chillingly intelligent video
on psychological compulsion and workfare:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF3vjwTrM3M&app=desktop

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No3.

from Caroline Molloy <carolinejmolloy@googlemail.com>

I think this piece is critical to understanding the right-wing agenda for service provision.

And how - under the rubric of joined up care and personalisation - they are stealthily importing the harsh benefit sanctions culture and 'undeserving' narrative they've created, into all our public services. Health, housing, etc.

https://opendemocracy.net/ournhs/dr-lynne-friedli-robert-stern/why-we-re-opposed-to-jobs-on-prescription

This piece starts by focusing on the introduction of Maximus 'job coaches' into GP surgeries (and the protests against that last Friday by DPAC).

Please do read through to the end, there are a number of other worrying examples mostly relating to mental health and employment, that show the real agenda is the absolute opposite of empowerment.

Whether or not, as with previous welfare to work schemes, this ends up being a debacle of underfunded sub-contracting of the more difficult cases to the voluntary sector, or not, there are major ethical concerns here that we all need to be switched on to, I think. Are the plebs sorry I mean service users to be left ANY agency of our own?

And of course it all fits together nicely with the dreadful eugenic piece in the Times yesterday about how heavy service users are genetically disposed to being poorly socialised.