Links
There are links in this section to information
about:
Organisations offering
resources and advice about social action and community development:
Baptist Union
www.baptist.org.uk/resources/index.html
Provides information and resources on church-based community action.
Caritas
www.caritas-socialaction.org.uk
Seeks to promote Catholic social action within the church and
in society at large.
Coventry diocese
http://sh1.ke2k.org/~admin884/work/soc_res.htm
Offer a series of action guides.
Churches’ Community Work Alliance
www.ccwa.org.uk
Network supporting churches in community development work and
to reflect theologically on their response to social and economic
change.
Faithworks
www.faithworks.info
Provides resources and consultancy services on community action
and information on Christian distinctiveness in employment.
Frontier Youth Trust
www.fyt.org.uk
Christian network committed to supporting, training and resourcing
those who work with marginalised and disadvantaged young people.
National Estate Churches Network
www.nationalestatechurches.org
Network for Christians and congregations living and working on
housing estates.
The Shaftesbury Society
www.shaftesburysociety.org
Shaftesbury works with disabled people and local communities to
achieve social inclusion, empowerment and justice.
United Reformed Church Community Work
department
www.urc.org.uk/crcw
Support community development workers within the United Reformed
Church and offer generic resources for community involvement.
Organisations developing
practical church unity:
Building Bridges of Hope
http://buildingbridges.blogspot.com/
Blog spot of wider Churches Together in Britain and Ireland initiative
supporting ecumenical work in the community.
Churches’ Regional Network
www.churches-together.org.uk
Churches Together in England (CTE) is the national ecumenical
body for England. It aims to help and encourage the Churches to
work more closely together in their work and witness, usually
via local ecumenical groupings called “Churches Together
in…”
Churches Together in Britain and Ireland
www.ctbi.org.uk
Support and encourage churches to work together, including producing
resources for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity from 18 to
25 January.
Evangelical Alliance’s Christian
Action Networks
www.eauk.org/cans
Support and facilitate local networks of churches involved in
social action.
Emerging church:
Church.co.uk
www.church.co.uk
Provides an opportunity to discuss and debate, voice and explore
questions about life, faith, Christianity and new ways of being
and doing church.
Emergent
www.emergent-uk.org
Network of congregations exploring emerging ways of being church.
Emergent Village
www.emergentvillage.com
US based community supporting being church in all spheres.
Emerging Church
www.emergingchurch.info
Features articles and discussions surrounding the changing shape
of church.
Fresh Expressions
www.freshexpressions.org.uk/index.asp?id=1
Another UK based website exploring what it means to be church.
Open Source Theology
www.opensourcetheology.net
Aims to assist the development of a transparent, community-driven
theology for the ‘emerging church’.
The Ooze
www.theooze.com
Post-modern and post-denominational place in cyber-space.
Urban Expression
www.urbanexpression.org.uk
Organisation supporting mission-focused church planting in urban
areas.
Useful publications:
Encounters on the Edge
www.encountersontheedge.org.uk
Quarterly booklets on church planting and mission published by
the Church Army.
Grove Booklets
www.grovebooks.co.uk
Explore contemporary church issues, including topics such as regeneration,
urban mission and urban spirituality.
Southwark Diocese
www.southwark.anglican.org/bcs/publications.htm
Practical resources and ideas for church-based community involvement.
Urban Theology Unit
www.utusheffield.fsnet.co.uk
Produce a wide range of publications promoting the study and discovery
of a "theology of the streets".
Organisations combining
campaigning with local action:
Church Action on Poverty
www.church-poverty.org.uk
National charity committed to tackling poverty in the UK by working
in partnership with churches and with people in poverty themselves
to find solutions to poverty, locally, nationally and globally.
Housing Justice
www.chasnational.org.uk
Help people in immediate housing need through a network of independent
housing advice centres and community projects and mobilise support
locally and nationally to improve housing policy.
Speak
www.speak.org.uk
Network connecting the emerging generation to campaign and pray
on issues of global justice to bring about social transformation.
Funding and training
websites:
Access funds
www.access-funds.co.uk
Website offering funding advice and training for the voluntary
sector.
Charities Aid Foundation
www.cafonline.org
Gives grants, training and financial services within the voluntary
and community sector.
Church Urban Fund
www.cuf.org.uk
Aims to tackle urban poverty by awarding grants, educating the
Church and influencing national regeneration policy.
Directory of Social Change
www.dsc.org.uk
Leading training and information for the voluntary sector on better
management and fundraising.
Government funding
www.governmentfunding.org.uk
Information on all current government grants.
Tearfund
www.tearfund.org
Allocate seed funding to evangelical Christian groups and projects
working in their community.
Workshop
www.workshop.org.uk
Applied Christian studies course over 11 weekends in 6 centres
throughout England.
Other leads for getting
involved in your community:
Community Development Exchange
www.cdx.org.uk
Umbrella organisation supporting and networking all strands of
community development activity.
Community Development Foundation
www.cdf.org.uk
Leading non-departmental public body pioneering and promoting
new forms of community development.
Community Matters
www.communitymatters.org.uk
Provide advice, training, information and resources to community
organisations
Community Work Training Co.
www.community-work-training.org.uk
Provides support and training to people involved in community
activities in West Yorkshire.
Eco Congregation
www.ecocongregation.org
Encouraging churches to weave creation care into their life and
mission by providing resources and support.
National Council for Voluntary Organisations
www.ncvo-vol.org.uk
Provides information, advice and support for the voluntary sector
and represents its views to government and policy-makers.
National Association for Councils for
Voluntary Service
www.nacvs.org.uk
Network of over 300 Councils for Voluntary Service (CVS) throughout
England that helps to promote voluntary and community action (from
here you can find out about your nearest CVS, which can be a good
source of local funding, training and advice).
New Economics Foundation
www.neweconomics.org
Think- tank promoting an economy centred on people and the environment.
Spirituality
Rejesus
www.rejesus.co.uk
Promotes Christian spirituality in a diverse and culturally-relevant
way.
Spirited.net
www.spirited.net.au/dean/cyberjump/emergingchurch/thought.php
A resource for spirited people on the journey with emerging church.
Northumbria Community
www.northumbriacommunity.org
A dispersed new monastic community but based in Northumberland.
Other
leads for thinking through faith and life
Ekklesia
www.ekklesia.co.uk
Think tank exploring connection between Christianity and culture.
London Institute for Contemporary Christianity
www.licc.org.uk
Organisation equipping Christians to engage relevantly with contemporary
culture and the workplace.
Making Everything New
www.makingeverythingnew.com
Supporting Christians to express their faith in all spheres.
Sojourners
www.sojo.net
US based network providing lots of discussion and resources and
faith, culture and politics.
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for the changing contents of these websites.
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