This guide is to help community and voluntary sector organisations like Locality's members to get started on twitter and facebook. It's a short and easy to understand toolkit that provides step-by -step instructions of how to set up and use twitter and facebook, and gives real examples of how other organisations have made use of social media. If you're new to the world of social media and would like to find out how twitter and facebook can help your organisation, this is the guide for you!
Thursday, 30 May 2013
Hilden Charitable Fund - deadline 13 September 2013
The Hilden Charitable Fund has announced that the next deadline for submitting applications is the 13th September 2013. Within the UK, the Hilden Charitable Fund makes grants to projects that address disadvantages, notably by supporting causes which are less popular. In particular, the Fund wants to support projects that address: Homelessness; Asylum seekers and refugees; Community based initiatives for disadvantaged young people 16 – 25; Penal Affairs. Preference is given to supporting small community organisations with an income of less than £500,000 per year. The Trust will consider funding project as well as core running costs of organisations. During 2010 -11 the average grant given was £5,300.
Wednesday, 29 May 2013
Blackpool Coastal Housing Tenants Project Fund
Blackpool Coastal Housing Tenants Project Fund is relaunching. The fund is open to any community group, charity, public service or individual tenant or leaseholder who can demonstrate their project has support from the local community.
If you have an idea for a project or would like to find out more information about the fund you can attend the Tenants Project Fund Re-Launch Day at Coastal House on the 12 June 2013 either 10am-12pm or 2pm-4pm. For more information or to find out how to book your place please click here to download a poster.
If you have an idea for a project or would like to find out more information about the fund you can attend the Tenants Project Fund Re-Launch Day at Coastal House on the 12 June 2013 either 10am-12pm or 2pm-4pm. For more information or to find out how to book your place please click here to download a poster.
Another Guardian article on Food Banks
Poverty: 50 ways to close a food bank
As food banks struggle to cope with rising demand, they - and politicians - could learn valuable lessons from volunteers in Canada about the precarious nature of charity food provision.
Tuesday, 28 May 2013
CRIME COMMISSIONER'S COMMUNITY ACTION FUND
The new PCC is committed to working with local resident and community groups to support them in making where they live a safer and better place. My Community Action Fund of £50,000 is designed to provide small grants to assist groups in tackling local concerns and helping to deliver my priorities in their area.
see for details and application forms
Mental Health training day - Lancaster Free Methodist Church
Dear all – following my previous email (below) just a quick reminder if you are interested but haven't yet registered and are intending to come to our Mental Health training day we would appreciate you emailing info@lfmc.co.uk to register so we can plan the day appropriately for the numbers coming! Thank you!
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Many churches face the challenge of caring for people with mental health issues, which can range from low risk (depression, anxiety) to moderate risk (addictive personalities, self-harm, suicidal thoughts) through to severe risk (bi-polar, schizophrenia, voices) requiring medical intervention. Although we try to provide a loving, safe and welcoming place for all, very few of us have actually been trained and know how to support and care for people within our congregations who face these daily battles.
Because this is something we have been facing as a church over the last few years, we have organised a structured training day with Positive Futures North West for our pastoral team here. Positive Futures have many years of experience working in the community with people with mental health issues.
In conversation with a number of people, I am aware that we are not alone in facing these challenges, and many of you have expressed an interest in receiving such training too. We have therefore designed this training day for churches—ministers, pastoral care teams and carers—to come and receive some outside training in how to care for some of our most vulnerable people. If you, or members of your church pastoral care teams or even carers within your congregation would like to attend, you would be very welcome. We would however appreciate a £5 voluntary contribution per person to cover some of our costs!
To register and reserve places, please contact us on info@lfmc.co.uk / 01524 841941 by Monday 3rd June 2013.
For more information, please feel free to give me a call. Please also feel free to distribute this around your networks should you feel this would be of benefit to other churches you know
Chris Drury
Pastor, Lancaster Free Methodist Church
Queen Street, Lancaster. LA1 1RX
01524 841941
For more information about LFM, see www.lfmc.co.uk
For my blog and other info, see www.chrisdrury.org
Friday, 24 May 2013
The Church and Community Fund
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Wednesday, 22 May 2013
'Stories from the Street: A Theology of Homelessness' by David Nixon [Review by John Kurht]
The structure of the book promises much. David Nixon, an Anglican Priest in Plymouth, constructed the book around interviews with eleven people who have experienced homelessness – these are the 'stories from the street'. Their centrality to the book gives a prominence and weight to the real life stories of actual homeless people
a 'theology of homelessness' should help define what the Church has to say about justice, hope and transformation. Disappointingly, Stories from the Street does not achieve this.
Friday, 17 May 2013
Fw: One Blackpool e-news
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To: Greg
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Subject: One Blackpool e-news
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