Hold the Date : Feeding Lancashire Together conference to be held at Brockholes, Preston, on Friday 22nd January 2016.

Food poverty just does not go away. To all those who are responding by providing food, we extend a warm invitation to our conference to be held at Brockholes, Preston, on Friday 22^nd January 2016.

from 9:30 am - 2pm

Whether you provide parcels, advice, hot food, cooking lessons, using slow cookers, growing food etc, this will be of interest. We are keen to share experiences and concerns, not least where do we go next given continued austerity measures, including savage local government cuts.

The keynote speaker is Geoff Tansey, Chair of the Fabian Commission on Poverty and Hunger, which has recently reported. Cathy Kay, a Pastoral Head from Blackburn, will speak about the effect of diet on child development. Discussion groups will be followed by lunch, where there will be the opportunity to talk to organisations who have delivered projects to provide food over the last twelve months.

Book your free place here

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/feeding-lancashire-together-conference-tickets-19856279667

We'd also like to draw your attention to our new website

www.feedinglancashiretogether.org.uk

Where you can find all the information you'll ever need about food banks and other food related projects across the county.

 

Guess who's moving to Bloomfield Rd??

From Valley Church

 

----- Original Message -----

From: James Baker

To: James Baker

Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2015 1:43 PM

Subject: Guess who's moving to Bloomfield Rd??

This email is a bit different than what you would normally hear from me, but I'd say it's a big thing!

I'm raising awareness of some exciting news that is taking place in Blackpool over the next couple of weeks, and I would love to share it with you!!

You might already know that I am one of the Pastors for Valley Church, and in Blackpool we have been meeting on Sunday's every week at the Village (De Vere) Hotel for around 18-months. The congregation has been growing and now in need of a larger meeting room and have a passion to invest more into the local community.

Well, we are pleased to announce that our new weekly Sunday service venue will be held at:

Blackpool Football Club Hotel and Conference Centre, Bloomfield Rd. 

(yes... at the stadium!!)

If you're available, I would love to invite you to come and join us as we celebrate with a 'New Venue Launch' service on Sunday 13th December, 10:30am.

And from a personal point of view I would love for you to come and see what Valley Church is like and all about, and also to see some the work I'm involved with when I'm not at BCH. I think you will be pleasantly surprised, especially as we are now going to be meeting in such an incredible and iconic venue! :)

Could I tempt you to come for the launch, or a Sunday in the new year?

Or perhaps you know someone who might be interested?

Details for the New Venue Launch Day:

- Sunday 13th December

- Doors open at 10am, for a 10:30am start 

- Held at Blackpool Football Club Hotel, Bloomfield Road, Seasiders Way, Blackpool FY1 6JJ

- Meeting in the 53 Suite (access through Hotel main reception)

- Kids programme that runs alongside the main service (free)

- Free parking

- For further details about parking, kids work, how to travel there, who we are, etc. please follow the link to our webpage: www.valleychurch.eu/blackpool 

(& also please see attached for a poster invite)

If you have any questions or would like to find out more about Valley Church, please email the team on blackpool@valleychurch.eu or you can simply reply back to my email, or give me a call on: 07759 678985

I would love to hear from you!

Thanks again and God bless you!

I look forward to hearing from you

James

New Feeding Lancashire Together Website

 

We have just launched our Feeding Lancashire Together Website

http://feedinglancashiretogether.org.uk/

 

It lists or provides links to almost all the food related community projects, including food banks in Lancashire and the Unitary Authorities and has our amazing interactive map

 

 

We've also set up a blog page http://feedinglancashiretogetherrecipeideas.blogspot.co.uk/ On this blog you will soon find a growing collection of recipes which will help you to prepare healthy meals on a tight budget. If you have favourite recipes of your own that you would like to share with others just email them (even if it's just a link to one you have found online) to  to greg.smith@together-lancashire.org.uk

Map from Blackpool Faith Audit

Not sure if this has been posted before but this is the map we produced as a result of the Blackpool Faith audit..  You can find over 60 social action projects or community activities that are linked with churches or faith groups in Blackpool.  If you can't find your project please email me some details.. and I'll add it to the map. 

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=zPMtu3VebI7U.kocuAxNHzCsM&hl=en


A printable directory is coming soon.

The summary report can be found here

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/89023969/Blackpool%20faith%20audit%20report.pdf

From the Joint Public Issues team

 

NEW BLOG - Taxing the poor - then ignoring them

 

http://www.jointpublicissues.org.uk/taxing-the-poor-then-ignoring-them/