A pioneering 'social action covenant'

 

 

 

Earlier this summer Archbishop Bernard Longley spoke about the issues faced by faith based organisations in the delivery of public services and he announced a pioneering 'social action covenant' to be launched in Birmingham this autumn. Click here to download his speech. The covenant is intended to encourage councils to work together more effectively with faith groups, to remove mistrust and promote collaboration across a range of projects. Read about it here. The covenant was devised by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Faith and Society and the Cathedrals Innovation Centre. The APPG and FaithAction are asking faith based service providers to get in touch: they would like to hear from you and are asking what your organisation is doing to affect community change and provide solutions to unmet needs and what barriers are you encountering? Click here to contribute.

LifePort: 1hr Workshop - Enabling the Church to have a bigger impact

Here's a training resource some of you may want to use..

 

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From: matthew@lifewhys.com

Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2014 5:51 PM

Subject: LifePort: 1hr Workshop - Enabling the Church to have a bigger impact

For the past few years, we have been running a training programme called LifePort. Its objectives are to enable the local Church to have a bigger impact in the communities they are connected with. And it is working. Seeing amazing results (300% Church growth in one year) and getting fantastic feedback.

• Ever wanted to know why some of your projects fail whilst others succeed?
• Ever wanted to know what were the key 40 factors that everyone needs to thrive?
• Ever wanted to bridge the gap between projects?
• Ever wanted to easily mobilise more Christians into ministry?

LifePort provides answers to these questions and a lot more.

Through our relationships with Tearfund, Hope, Jerusalem Trust and others, they have all encouraged us to roll LifePort out nationally. However, we also recognise that TIME is an issue for folk. So with that in mind, we have condensed the 1 day programme to a 1hr intense workshop.

Have a look at our mini site (www.lifewhys.com/lifeport), watch the video, look at the presentation and the flyer. If any of its content resonates with you, get in touch.

I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Warm regards

Mat

Ps. We are based in Ashford, Kent, but operate nationally.

PPs. We are also deliberatly making LifePort free, making it easier for people to get onboard - all we'd need to see covered is the cost of print (for the manual, see Twitter account for example) and travel. If folk would want to give a gift for the training, then would be great.

PPPs. I was born in Littleborough too :D

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Matthew Eason
LifePort Lead
07595 45 25 27
Twitter: @TheLifePort 
www.lifewhys.com/lifeport

Listening Skills Course; Saturday 4 and 11 October at St.Cuthbert's Church, Fulwood

Do you want to

develop your skills

in listening to self,

God and others?

Then the Listening For Life course is for you.  Session titles are Catching a Vision for Listening, Growing a Heart for Listening, Deepening Compassion for Listening, Walking the Way of Listening.  

 

Saturday 4 and 11 October at St.Cuthbert's Church, Fulwood

11am – 5pm

For more information and a registration form contact Rev Sue Griffiths suegriffiths@mybroadbandmail.com or 01772 774285 by 12 September

To download registration form click here

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/89023969/listening%20for%20lifeRegistration%20Form.doc

 

Joseph Rowntree Foundation Weekly publications and blogs: August 2014 Update

Sent: Friday, August 29, 2014 11:19 AM

Subject: Weekly publications and blogs: August 2014 Update

View this email in a web browser Weekly publications and blogs: w/b 11th August to 25th August 2014 Publication: Reducing poverty in the UK: a collection of evidence reviews To help build the evidence for JRF's anti-poverty strategy, we commissioned researchers to carry out reviews of existing policy and research on a wide range of social issues that are related to poverty. The 33 studies in this collection are the findings of those reviews, and there are links to more detailed reports by the research teams, where available. Publication: Tackling poverty across all ethnicities in the UK This publication summarises the main findings from research commissioned by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation into the links between poverty and ethnicity, suggesting how poverty may be tackled across all ethnicities in the UK. Blog: Care about poverty? Here are 10 reasons why you also need to think about ethnicity Ethnicity matters when it comes to tackling poverty. But, says Helen Barnard, it's not about broad generalisations. Publication: Assessing the social and community risks of council spending cuts in Scotland Local councils in Scotland continue to face severe challenges and hard choices in reducing expenditure on services in line with UK public spending cuts. Cuts can have short-term financial benefits but negative impacts may take longer to be revealed. This paper: explores how councils in Scotland can adequately consider social and community risks when making austerity cuts to services; identifies barriers to better risk assessment and how to overcome these; considers opportunities to promote impact assessment through new policies on joint working in health and social care, and community planning partnerships. Guest Blog: Tackle students' low attainment by addressing culture of low expectations Poverty alone doesn't necessarily lead to poor exam results. We need to look at attitudes among families, communities and schools, says Sam Freedman. Blog: Help for childcare must keep up with the rising cost of living With the cost of bringing up a child now approaching £90 a week, the government needs to do more to help low-earning families, says Katie Schmuecker. No longer wish to receive these alerts? Unsubscribe here (warning: choosing this link will unsubscribe you instantly) The Joseph Rowntree Foundation seeks to understand the root causes of social problems, identify ways of overcoming them, and show how social needs can be met in practice.