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Sent: Friday, November 30, 2012 5:02 PM
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Bringing people together to share good stories is what we love to do, and it was our privilege to host the recent Serve.Transform event in Bradford on 12th November. Around 60 people from a mixture of organisations and churches including Torch Trust, Salvation Army, Mercy Ministries, CAP, Street Angels, as well as Tearfund, TLG and Prospects. We were delighted to hear from Tani Omideyi from LJM Group speak passionately about his lessons learned in delivering social justice. LJM Group serve their community in loads of different ways, engaging with youth through music festivals, providing a top rate restaurant, a furniture outlet and a debt advisory service. What a fantastic way to bless their community! Always give the best of what you have - doesn't God deserve the best?
And we heard great words of wisdom from the Former Assistant Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police Neil Wain – currently the National Partnership Development Manager for Redeeming Our Communities - on working with local authorities and building strategic relationships. Often there are plenty of organisations active in our communities: churches, local authorities and schools. The great thing about ROC is the partnerships they build. They build trust, strengthen existing projects, and by working together, we can do more.
There was plenty of time to meet, share and network with others and the whole day buzzed with positive conversations and a great atmosphere. Let's get together again soon!
Mike Royal is the National Director for TLG and a member of Serve. | | | In this edition you'll find...
Funding opportunities
New resources
Latest news
Stories and
Events
| | | Funding opportunities
If you're after some extra funding, visit The Goldsmiths' Company Charity website. They offer grants for loads of causes, from the disadvantaged in society to churches, heritage and the arts. Their average grant was £3,000 last year, so it's well worth a look. Find their website here.
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Compelled to counter poverty in your neighbourhood? Get stuck in with Poverty and Homelessness Action Week from 26th January to 3rd February 2013. The week is all about raising awareness, raising funds and involving people in tackling poverty and homelessness in the UK. The event's website is packed full of free resources including an event guide, video clips and loads of extra material so that you and your church can get involved. Check it out here.
With thanks to Housing Justice for sharing this resource with us.
 Passionate about getting young people off the streets and into a better future? Have a look at Springfield Lodge Lifehouse, an exciting new initiative which provides young people with a safe place to live. They currently house 16 young people and provide activities like busting beats in a recording studio, becoming the next big cheese in cooking classes and learning important life skills too. We think it's a great example of serving the local community. Find out more in the clip here.
With thanks to the Salvation Army for this great link. If you're a church leader and interested in visiting this initiative, please contact us on info@serveuk.org and we can put you in touch with them.
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A housing charity which gives a sense of worth to vulnerable people in Peterborough has won the Serve award for most inspiring project in this year's Inspire Awards.
Hope Into Action, based in Peterborough, was set up to help the vulnerable in the community and particularly ex-prisoners.
The project works by investing in houses to provide homes for up to two vulnerable people, and also encourages and equips churches to do the same.
The Inspire Awards are run by the Evangelical Alliance and Inspire magazine. Krish Kandiah, executive director of churches in mission at the Evangelical Alliance and Serve award judge, said: "We loved the holistic approach that Hope Into Action have taken to being good news to the homeless and vulnerable.
"Having a home is not just about having a roof over your head, it's about security and about having a sense of worth. We also wanted to celebrate Hope Into Action's passion to get involved with churches and see them playing a part in helping to house the homeless."
Find out who else has been awarded here.
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| Stories
Green Pastures work with partners around the UK to provide housing for the homeless. They aim to house 1,000 people by 2015 and dream of every church in the UK having one house to house the homeless. One of their partners is the Mulberry Community Project, and you can follow their inspiring story here.
Your stories - We'd love to hear what's going on in your local community. If you'd like to share an inspiring story, visit our stories section.
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| | | Events
Unlocking the Prodigal
Unlock Urban is hosting a discipleship development event to give you creative opportunities to engage with the story of the Prodigal Son in relation to your own everyday experiences. There will be lots of activities to help you experience Unlock's creative approach to Bible engagement in action and help you think about how you could replicate this in your own church and community projects.
Date: Saturday 12th January 2013
Venue: St Alban's Church, Windy Nook Road, Felling, Gateshead, NE10 9RJ
Time: 12.30pm - 3.30pm
Click here to download the event flier.
Strategic planning, monitoring and evaluation
Don't miss the Tearfund IMPACT UK workshop on strategic planning, monitoring and evaluation. It's a two day training event full of tips and great advice for church projects and Christian organisations. You can come along to one or both days but we'd recommend both; day two will build on content covered from day one. You know what they say - two days are better than one...
Date: Tuesday 12th – Wednesday 13th February 10.00am – 4pm
Venue: Tearfund, 100 Church Road, Teddington, Middlesex TW11 8QE
To find out more and to register your place, visit our webpage.
Raising Our Game
Throughout 2013, we're hosting a series of seminars on Tearfund's '10 keys for impact'. The keys are all about transforming your local community and are taking place from Carlisle to Colchester (and a few places in-between too). Each one will focus on one or several keys but will refer to the others. It's a great chance to be inspired, equipped and empowered for change in your community. Visit our website for more info.
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