Migration seminar in Preston

 

Seminar title:                       Migration and Integration

 

Date:                                      Friday 24^th July 2009

 

Venue:                                  Harris Conference Centre, 253 Garstang Road, Preston

 

Cost:                                      This is a free seminar

 

Who should attend:           This seminar is open to practitioners from any organisation in the public, private and voluntary sectors who have an interest in migration, cohesion and inclusion.

 

Booking:                              The places are limited to 60 so early booking is advised.  To book contact Jackie Singleton on 01772 906453, e-mail to J.singleton@preston.gov.uk, fill in and return the attached form by e-mail or post to J. Singleton, Preston City Council, Town Hall, Lancaster Road, Preston, PR1 2RL

 

 

 

Background and purpose of the seminar:

 

This year Preston celebrates 20 years of twinning with Kalisz in Poland.  There are a number of celebrations taking place over the period 23^rd to the 26^th July. As a part of the celebrations, this seminar on immigration and the integration of immigrants in the community has been designed as an opportunity to discuss an issue of common interest with our colleagues in Kalisz.  In addition, it has a resonance with our other twin cities of Almelo in Holland, Recklinghausen in Germany and Nimes in France.

 

This seminar also provides an opportunity to showcase some of the work being done in Preston and as an exchange of ideas and learning with our twinning colleagues.

FAMILY & CHILDREN'S LAY WORKER Job vacancy Please publicise

 

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ST. STEPHEN'S PARISH CHURCH,

 

Bird Street, Broadgate, Preston, PR1 8DY

Seeks to Appoint

 

A PART TIME (18hr per week)

FAMILY & CHILDREN'S LAY WORKER

18 month fixed term contract;

Approx. £20k pa pro rata; i.e. £10k actual

 

The overall purpose of the post is to develop the Christian outreach of St Stephens as a "Jesus Loving, Bible Living, People Serving Church" among children and their families living in the parish. This will include opportunities to share and teach the Christian faith in the context of community work in an urban parish. The person appointed will need to be highly motivated and a self starter, taking responsibility and initiative for programmes in the absence of full time clergy during our current interregnum.

 

The post is funded by external grants from Church Urban Fund, and The Church and Community Fund which allow us initially to appoint a person on a 18 hour per week contract for a fixed one and a half year  period to start September 2009 or asap thereafter. Hours are likely to be flexible with the need for some evening and weekend sessions.

 

For a full job description and person specification, with some background information on the parish please contact St Stephens Church via :

 

email… church@maister-smith.fsnet.co.uk     (Please note due to holidays
emails to this address will not be answered between 26th June and 7th July)

 

or phone… 01772 491900  on Tuesday or Thursday mornings only

 or…01772 824451 (after 6pm).

 

For an informal introduction to the church and look around the parish please feel free to attend any Sunday service 10.30am or 6.30pm and introduce yourself to our churchwardens or other leaders.

 

Applications will be by CV and a letter explaining why you would like the post, how you meet the person specification, and what you would bring to the work.

 

The deadline for applications is 5pm on Friday 31^st July

 

Short listed applicants will be called to an interview with a panel of 4 people appointed by the PCC. These are likely to take place as mutually convenient (probably in the evening) during the middle weeks of August. We would like the person appointed to start work immediately after the school holidays if possible,

In defence of youth work workshop in Preston

WORKSHOP

IN DEFENCE OF YOUTH WORK

FRIDAY 12TH JUNE 2009

12 NOON TO 3PM

THE FOXTON CENTRE
KNOWSLEY STREET,
PRESTON
PR1 3SA
Website www.thefoxtoncentre.co.uk

If you are planning to attend, please email kev jones
(getkev@gmail.com) or j.richardson@preston.ac.uk

Also see the blog on : http://indefenceofyouthwork.wordpress.com

The following Open Letter will kick off the discussion:

IN DEFENCE OF YOUTH WORK:

Thirty years ago Youth Work aspired to a special relationship with
young people. It wanted to meet young women and men on their terms. It
claimed to be 'on their side'.
Three decades later Youth Work is close to abandoning this distinctive
commitment. Today it
accepts the State's terms. It sides with the State's agenda. Perhaps we
exaggerate, but a profound
change has taken place.This shift has not happened overnight. Back in the
1980's the
Thatcherite effort via the Manpower Services Commission to shift the focus
of Youth Work from social
education to social and life skills was resisted. In the early 90's attempts
to impose a national
curriculum on the diverse elements of the Youth Service ground to a halt.
However with the accession of New
Labour the drive to impose an instrumental framework on Youth Work gathered
increasing momentum.
With Blair and Brown at the helm youth workers and managers have been
coerced and cajoled
into embracing the very antithesis of the Youth Work process: predictable
and prescribed
outcomes. Possessing no vision of a world beyond the present New Labour has
been obsessed with the
micro-management of problematic, often demonised youth. Yearning for a
generation stamped with the State's seal of
approval the government has transformed Youth Work into an agency of
behavioural modification.
It wishes to confine to the scrapbook of history the idea that Youth Work
is volatile and voluntary,
creative and collective – an association and conversation without
guarantees.
For many within the work this has been a painful period. For many there
has seemed to be no alternative to making the best of a bad job. But History
is an unruly
character. In the space of only a few months everything has been turned
upside down. Capitalism is
revealed yet again as a system of crisis: 'all that is solid melts into
air'. Society is shocked into
waking from 'the deep slumber of decided opinion'. The arrogant confidence
of those embracing the
so-called 'new managerialism',which has so afflicted Youth Work, is severely
dented. Against this
tumultuous background alternatives across the board are being sought. We
believe this is a
moment to be seized.Our contention is that we need to reaffirm our belief in
an
emancipatory and democratic Youth Work, whose cornerstones are:
• The sanctity of the voluntary principle; the freedom for young people
to enter into and withdraw from Youth Work as they so wish.
• A commitment to conversations with young people which start from
their concerns and within which both youth worker and young person are
educated.
• The importance of association, of fostering supportive relationships,
of encouraging the development of autonomous groups and 'the sharing of a
common life'.
• A commitment to a democratic practice, in which every effort is made
to ensure that young people play the fullest part in making decisions about
anything
affecting them.
• The continuing necessity of recognising that young people are not an
heterogeneous group and that issues of class, gender, race, sexuality and
disability remain
central.
• The essential significance of the youth worker themselves, whose
outlook, integrity and autonomy is at the heart of fashioning a serious yet
humorous,
improvisatory yet rehearsed educational practice with young people.
Such a definition is at odds with much that passes for Youth Work
today. But, as we have suggested, this is the time to challenge anew the new
managerial
attempt to make Youth Work the servant of the Market. To give some examples,
we need to question:
• The shift from locally negotiated plans to centrally-defined targets
and indicators.
• The growing emphasis on identifying the potentially deviant or
dysfunctional young person as the centre of Youth Work's attention.
• The increasing incorporation of youth workers into the surveillance
of young people, perceived as a threat to social order.
• The insidious way in which delivering accredited outcomes, even if
only on paper, has formalised and thus 0undermined the importance of
relationships in the
work.
• The distorting effect of identifying individuals as suitable and
urgent cases for treatment and intervention, 'to be worked on rather than
worked with'.
• The changing role of the youth worker, from being a social educator
to a social entrepreneur, submitting plan after bid after plan, selling both
themselves and young
people in the marketplace.
• And finally, but not exhaustively, the delicate issue of to what
extent professionalisation, hand in hand with bureaucratisation, has
assisted the suffocating grip
of rules and regulations upon the work and played a part in the exclusion of
the
volunteer, once the lifeblood of the old Youth Service [see Jeffs and Smith
2008: 277-283].
Of course it is easy to spout rhetoric on paper. Doing something solid
with this analysis is another matter altogether. This is especially the
case, given the very
different settings occupied by youth workers today. Without doubt the space
to duck and dive, to argue and
criticise, varies enormously.
Yet this very diversity lends weight to the proposal we would like to
make, which is quite simply that we must come together to clarify what is
going on in all its
manifestations; to understand better how we can support each other in
challenging the dire legacy of these
neo-liberal years.
If we possess the wit and energy to do so, we will not be alone.
Organised, dissident resistance is growing. Adult Education, devastated in
the name of vocationalism, is
reviving at the grass roots.
The Social Work Action Network opposes managerialism and marketisation,
the stigmatisation of service users . Closer to home the Federation of
Detached Youth Work
describes its members as neither social entrepreneurs nor social spies, but
democratic
educators. The National Coalition for Independent Action campaigns to
reassert the autonomy of voluntary
groups. The Youth Work unions are having to counter savage attacks, as in
Coventry, upon young
people's provision and workers' conditions. All such opposition offer the
chance to 'join up
services' under our own steam, under our control, on our and young people's
terms.
If you sympathise with and support the position set out in this Open Letter,
we ask you to join with
us and sign up to its intent. In doing so, you are not agreeing to some
party line. There is so much to think through together. However, in doing
so, you are lending your
voice to what might be a radical revival of a form of Youth Work that
wishes to play its part in the
creation of a just, equal and democratic society.
Criticisms welcome, but if you feel able to put your signature to this
Open Overture, please inform
Tony Taylor mailto:tonymtaylor@gmail.com
Reference
Jeffs, A and Smith, M. [2008] 'Valuing Youth Work', Youth &Policy,
100:277-302.

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Street Pastors: New Volunteering Opportunity

 

Street Pastors is an inter-denominational Church response to urban problems, engaging with people on the streets to care, listen and dialogue. It began in London in January 2003 and has now grown to 111 projects across the country with another 70 in development. Each project is run by a local management team with support from the Ascension Trust, local churches and community groups, in partnership with Police, Council and other statutory agencies. Here in Preston and South Ribble, the project grew out of Hope 08, and started on the streets in December 2008 with 24 volunteers from 10 different churches from across Preston and South Ribble. Already we are seeing fruit from our work, with relationships being built, trust established and a sense of a safer Preston developing within the community.
 
We are therefore really pleased and excited as a management team to be able to let you know that we are now opening up the work for more people to be able to volunteer and get involved. This year we have produced a downloadable Volunteer Application Pack which contains information about the project, what is involved with volunteering and all the necessary application forms in order to apply to become part of our growing, fantastic team.
 
We are holding an open evening for people to find out more about this on Tuesday 5^th May at Leyland Methodist Church, where there will be an opportunity to hear from the police, volunteers and others about the real difference the church can make within our communities. There will also be the opportunity to ask questions and find out more before the application deadline of 15^th May 2009.
 
Training for new volunteers will then begin on 21^st June for 4 consecutive Saturdays, and we are working to having the new teams on the streets in September.
 
What about you – is this something that you, or people you know might be able to get involved in? Why not be part of something amazing as ordinary men and women of all ages join together to share the love of God with people outside the walls of the church?
 
We have produced a downloadable poster with details of the open evening on, and we would very much appreciate if you might circulate and/or display this and details about the new volunteering opportunity within your churches to let people know we are now looking for new volunteers.
 
For details about how your church might support the work if you are unable to volunteer for patrolling the streets, please feel free to get in touch.
 
Thank you for your prayers and support
 
God bless                                                                                        
 
Chris Drury
 
Chairman, Preston & South Ribble Street Pastors Initiative
preston@streetpastors.org.uk
Pastor, Fulwood Free Methodist Church
Lightfoot Lane, Fulwood, Preston. PR2 3LT
Tel: 01772 861597 
 

Funding for Children's Summer Playschemes (UK)

The LankellyChase Foundation has announced that it is seeking applications from registered charities to support summer playschemes for children between the ages of 5 – 17 years. Preference is given to small local playschemes lasting 4 - 6 weeks, and groups planning special activities for youngsters who are disadvantaged. In 2009 the Foundation will be supporting specific activities for children and young people living in Refuges and for young carers. This year the Foundation will be making approximately 120 grants of around £500, to organisations in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Preference will be given to applications from organisations affiliated to a relevant nationally recognised body and adhering to national standards of practice. The closing date for applications is the 8th May 2009.

http://www.lankellychase.org.uk/

Street Pastors: Area Coordinator Role Required............ From Chris Drury

Dear all
 
As you may be aware, the work of the Street Pastors scheme is rapidly expanding both nationally and locally as God leads us into new areas of Preston and South Ribble and to reach out to those in need. As a result, we are looking to recruit a Volunteer Area Coordinator to work with the Preston & South Ribble Street Pastor's management team in administering the project, assisting with the operational management of the work and helping us to develop the work longer term.
 
Full details of this volunteer position are outlined in the attached document, and anyone interested in applying for the position should complete the attached application form and return with a covering letter and a copy of their CV to the specified address to be received by 12:00 midday on Thursday 9th April 2009, after which shortlisted applicants will be invited for an interview.
 
We would be extremely grateful if you could help us with this by making this opportunity known and available to anyone you are aware of who may be interested in it, and/or if you are a church leader including it within your church notices/bulletin so that your congregations can be aware of the opportunity to be a part of this project in a capacity that is not an "on-the-streets" capacity. If you also have access to your own interchurch networks and would be willing to circulate this through these, we would be very grateful for your support in this as well.
 
Should you wish to discuss this in any detail,  or if you want the full application pack, please feel free to get in touch with me.
 
Thank you and God bless                                                                  
 
Chris Drury
 
Preston & South Ribble Street Pastors Initiative
preston@streetpastors.org.uk
 
Pastor, Fulwood Free Methodist Church
Lightfoot Lane, Fulwood, Preston. PR2 3LT
Tel: 01772 861597

Email: preston@streetpastors.org.uk

Website: www.streetpastors.org

11 March 2009

Volunteer Area Coordinator Wanted

As you may be aware, the work of the Street Pastors scheme is rapidly expanding

both nationally and locally as God leads us into new areas of Preston and South

Ribble and to reach out to those in need. As a result, we are looking for a

volunteer area coordinator to work with the Preston & South Ribble Street Pastor's

management team in administering the project, assisting with the operational

management of the work and helping us to develop the work longer term.

The volunteer would be expected to work a minimum of 8 hours a week, mainly

during normal office hours. However, part of the role is to help with securing

funding for the work, and it is hoped that if this is successful, the role would

change and be advertised as a funded full or part time position.

 

Applications must be received by 12:00 midday on Thursday 9th April 2009, after

which shortlisted applicants will be invited for an interview.

God bless

Chris Drury

Chairman, Preston & South Ribble Street Pastors Project

A PRACTICAL GUIDE to using church land and property for affordable housing

Faith in Affordable Housing is a free web-based resource, giving practical and technical information to assist churches in providing affordable housing. The guide presents nine case studies from different denominations and from urban and rural areas.

'As President of Housing Justice I am delighted to commend this initiative to all faith communities who are seeking to respond to the needs of the homeless or poorly housed. In both urban and rural areas there is evidence of spiralling hardship which can lead to the loss of a basic requisite of human dignity – shelter. As people of faith we are called to address injustice in all its forms. This research presents a practical resource for those considering a preferential option for the poor in their mission to the wider community.'
Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor

Faith in affordable Housing

• demonstrates practical Christian concern and action in the community at a time when many young people and low-income families are experiencing great hardship
  
• gives practical help to churches by sharing good practice and showing what can be done
  
• provides solutions to some of the problems faced by churches wishing to develop affordable housing
  
• reconciles the dilemma faced by many churches – balancing social objectives such as valuing everyone, justice for the poor and placing morality before wealth with the pragmatic objectives of meeting the duties of trustees and maximising investment returns
  
• highlights options for the stewardship of church assets
  
• encourages churches to make the most of partnership opportunities
  
• provides sound advice and explains what action church property and finance personnel can take both to contribute to affordable housing and to benefit church and community.

DOWNLOAD the guide here >>

Housing Justice can help!

If you would like further help or advice about an affordable housing scheme using church land or property, please contact Alastair Murray at

HOUSING JUSTICE
209 Old Marylebone Road , London , NW1 5QT
Tel: 020 7723 7273 • Fax: 020 7723 5943
Email: info@housingjustice.org.uk

 
For all business concerning St Stephens I intend to use this address
church@maister-smith.fsnet.co.uk Please respond to this address and add / update all your email address lists.

Fishergate Baptist Challenge Competition

The deacons and members of Fishergate Baptist Church are looking for imaginative schemes which preserve a proportion of the space within the building for the church to continue and develop its work among the people of the city.

An open competition for developers and regeneration practitioners

Spring 2009

For full details download our brochure CLICK HERE

For more details see the website @ http://www.fishergatebaptist.org.uk

New Community Mission Website

Community Mission is a partnership between Livability & Tearfund. You can read about the Just People? course as well as our training events, resources & stories.

It's well worth a visit for resources... news of training events etc.

Visit our new website www.communitymission.org.uk

New Community Mission Web Site

Community Mission is a partnership between Livability & Tearfund. You can read about the Just People? course as well as our training events, resources & stories.

It's well worth a visit for resources... news of training events etc.

 

Visit our new website www.communitymission.org.uk 

 

St Stephens Preston Part Time children and family worker post: Recruiting Now

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS EXTENDED TO MARCH 1st

We are starting the process of appointing our part time worker. Could you help us advertise by circulating this around your networks. As you can see we have set ourselves a fairly tight schedule. Many thanks.

ADVERTISEMENT

ST. STEPHEN'S PARISH CHURCH,

Bird Street, Broadgate, Preston, PR1 8DY

Seeks to Appoint

A PART TIME (12hr per week initially)

Family & Children's Lay Worker

The overall purpose of the post is to develop the Christian outreach of St Stephens as a "Jesus Loving, Bible Living, People Serving Church" among children and their families living in the parish. This will include opportunities to share and teach the Christian faith in the context of community work in an urban parish.

The post is funded by external grants from Church Urban Fund, and The Church and Community Fund which allow us initially to appoint a person on a 12 hour per week contract for a fixed three year period. Further funding is currently being sought in order to enable us to increase the hours available to a maximum of 18 hours per week. Pay is at the rate of £9 per hour.

For a full job description and person specification, with some background information on the parish please contact the St Stephens Church via :

email… srankin@btinternet.com or phone……01772 824451 (after 6pm).

For an informal introduction to the church and look around the parish please contact the vicar….Rev Joe Fielder… vicarjoe@ststephenspreston.org.uk Tel, 01772 555762

Applications will be by CV and a letter explaining why you would like the post, how you meet the person specification, and what you would bring to the work.

The deadline for applications is 5pm on Friday 20^th February

Interviews with a panel of 4 people appointed by the PCC are likely to take place as mutually convenient (probably in the evening) during the last week of February or first week of March.

Greg Smith (on behalf og St Stephens Church)

How Christians Can Help the Homeless in Preston Sat 31st Jan

DON'T MISS

CHURCHES HOMELESSNESS EVENT
Saturday 31st Jan @ The Salvation Army
Click here for details

To book a place and a lunch email pcan@maister-smith.fsnet.co.uk

Winter Watch

 

On behalf of

 

I am writing to ask for volunteers to take part in a Winter Watch project.

Winter Watch is the name given to the emergency provision a Council provides for rough sleepers in the event of a sustained period of extreme cold weather.

In some areas, Councils meet their obligations by referring potential service users to the provision of neighbouring boroughs. In Preston plans are being put in place to accommodate, on a short term basis, people who have no alternative other than to sleep rough.

The Foxton Centre has been asked by the City Council to take a lead and be one of the main providers of such emergency provision.

Therefore, I am going to be putting together teams of people who are willing to volunteer to staff the Centre overnight. I will need, I think, teams of at least six to eight people willing to be available at short notice from late evening until after breakfast the following morning.

Each team will cover one night and hand over to another team on a rota basis.

Some volunteers may be required to do street based outreach if that is deemed to be the best way to contact those people most in need of the service.

Others will need to be in the Centre, overnight, awake and able to respond to issues that may arise.

For those willing to cook breakfast, a Food Hygiene Certificate will be an advantage!!

Experience of working successfully with vulnerable people and of assessing and minimising risk and with current CRB clearance will be essential.

Ideally, Team Leaders will have experience of working in a residential setting.

I also need a reserve of 15-20 mattresses and sleeping bags and somewhere to store them and access to a minibus/van to transport them to the Centre, again at short notice.

So this is an initial email to begin to gather names and contact details (Mobile and email), an indication of availability, and relevant experience, of willing volunteers.

What to do now
Please pass this email on to your networks of volunteers and appropriately experienced staff.

Please ask people to email me, Tim Keightley at foxtoncentre1@tiscali.co.uk and give the email the subject 'Winter Watch' with the details I have asked for above.

Please bear in mind, that Winter Watch will only kick in if Preston is experiencing severe weather that is likely to last for more than three days and nights.

The long-term weather forecast predicts that we may get to this stage in coming months.

We need to keep expectations low among the rough sleeping and other homeless people who may be interested in this provision because the provision may not become available. Therefore, please try to keep this information between yourselves for the time being.

My next step will be to try to get a meeting together in early January, probably for all interested in volunteering, but especially for team leaders.

(Why is it always me?)

Tim Keightley
Director
The Foxton Centre

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House for rent please make this known

Three bed house to let might suit Christian Household

in Ashton,  good size bedroom dg/ch garden, ds wc.

£485.00 pcm dep/refs required

please call kirsty 07846 290962 or email

 

dss/pets considered 

The Salvation Army Christmas Appeal for Toys and Food hampers for Needy people

 

Please circulate this around your networks of community and faith groups and to social work agencies in Preston, South Ribble and Chorley



The Salvation Army in Preston needs your help - All year round we help families in Preston and the surrounding areas who are in need.  This help ranges from food parcels to clothing and bedding.  At Christmas, just like any other family in the country, families living below the poverty line would love to have Christmas presents to open on Christmas day or enough food to prepare a good Christmas dinner.  We provide those presents at the request of social workers, teachers, health visitors etc so that we know the gifts are going to the people who are in real need. 
 
We are aware that, in these difficult economic times, some people may be struggling to get enough together for Christmas so this year, more than ever, we are asking members of the public to give a gift and light up a life. Unfortunately, every year there are thousands of families across the country who struggle at Christmas and we do expect an increased need this year.
 
This year The Salvation Army has also joined forces with the health & beauty retailer Superdrug which has over 910 stores and will act as an official retail drop off zone in all its stores across the UK.We are so grateful that Superdrug are opening up their stores as collection points and we hope that with their help and the generosity of the general public we will be able to light up the lives of many people this Christmas.

In order to meet those needs, we are asking people in our area to donate gifts that will help us meet all the needs of our community this Christmas.  You can drop them off at your local Superdrug store or bring them direct to us.
 
We will be collecting gifts from Monday 17th November to Friday 19th December. Please arrange to deliver them to our centre in Harrington Street which is normally open between 9am – 4.30pm Monday – Friday. If you cannot deliver your gifts within these times please contact us on 01772 555425 to make alternative arrangements.
 
REFERRALS
 
If you know of households in need and wish to make a referral you can ask us for a referral form or download one from our web site…   http://sapreston.synthasite.com/christmas-appeal-2008.php

With many Thanks

Greg Smith
Community Co-ordinator
The Salvation Army Preston
Harrington Street
Preston PR1 7BN
Tel No (01772) 555425

www.sapreston.co.uk    
Note this is from my work email address Greg.Smith@salvationarmy.org.uk

Ps 9 v 17 For the needy shall not always be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.

Christians Against Poverty New Centre in Preston

see http://www.capuk.org/home/index.php

Preston Centre - Longton Community Church, Longton, PR4 5XY To book an initial appointment please call FREE on 0800 328 0006


Because we visit people in their home, we can only help those who live within 30 minutes drive of a CAP Centre.

STEP BY STEP GUIDE TO HOW WE HELP

1. HOME VISIT If you live in a postcode covered by a CAP centre (use the postcode search at the top of the page to find this out), phone the freephone number. After you call CAP, a Debt Advisor and Support Worker from the local CAP Centre will visit you in your own home.


2. AN EFFECTIVE BUDGETA realistic budget is then worked out at CAP HQ by prioritising your essential bills, negotiating affordable payments with each creditor and stopping unfair interest and charges where possible. The local Debt Advisor will then visit you again to explain the budget and the payments you will need to make.


3. CAP ACCOUNTA CAP Account is then set up for you. This acts like a simple bank account. You will need to make one weekly or monthly payment into your account to cover all of your bills and debts. CAP will then distribute this on your behalf. You can also make savings in your CAP Account.


4. INSOLVENCY / BANKRUPTCYIf you are in severe debt then we can walk you through insolvency, like petitioning for bankruptcy. We can help you to fill out the forms and even attend court with you.


5. DEBT FREE AND BEYONDYou will use your CAP Account to pay your bills and debt repayments and you will be supported by a team at CAP HQ until you are debt free. You may keep your CAP Account even after you are debt free.
More details? – Click here to read some frequently asked questions

Poverty and Homelessness Action Week 31 January ? 8 February 2009

Worskshop training event palnned in Preston Saturday 31st January 2009.. see
http://www.homelessinpreston.btik.com/news/18108130387.ikml

Resources now available! Visit the Poverty and Homelessness Action Week website http://www.actionweek.org.uk/html/home.html The place to resource your church to make a real difference in communities everywhere. Be part of something huge. Run a church service on Homelessness Sunday (1 February) or Poverty Action Sunday (8 February) using extracts from Voices from the Edge. Use Voices from the Edge and our discussion guide for small group work reflecting on homelessness and poverty, in your church, school, house group or project. Put on a public performance of Voices from the Edge in your school, church or project. Come along to a professional performance of Voices from the Edge - or help us to organise one in your area! Encourage your church to get involved; uncover the reality of hidden poverty or homelessness in your community; celebrate what is already going on locally; make new links with others working on the same issues.

In July 2008 The Salvation Army produced The Seeds of Exclusion. Download this major report and analysis of the reasons for social exclusion at www.salvationarmy.org.uk/seeds.

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November 29th Youth Work Training Event

Download poster and get more info about Frontier Youth Trust from or go to http://gregsmith.synthasite.com/resources-for-the-urban-church.php

Helping Homeless People in Preston

A new web resource on the documents page of the Homeless in Preston Website is a leaflet you can download and distribute to people in your church. It is designed to help them learn, pray, give, volunteer and campaign to help the needy in our city.

How Christians and Churches Can Help Click Here

or to dowload the print version click
http://www.homelessinpreston.btik.com/documents/all.ikml

you can also download

Homeless People: What to do if asked for help?

A short guide for clergy, hostel staff, community workers and other professionals working in Preston

Frontier Youth Trust calls for urgent investment in young people.

 

 

Press release    Press release    Press release    Press release

 

 

Frontier Youth Trust calls for urgent investment in young people.

 

 

9 months of research into the future of Christian Youth Work in England

has culminated in a urgent appeal to Government Ministers to take youth work more seriously and to Denominational heads to motive their Churches to action.

 

FYT is calling for Churches and Christian organisations to commit 25% of their income on working with young people, particularly marginalised young people, in order to take the needs of those outside of the church more seriously.

 

'With the media  tending to demonise young people with such negative reporting , many of the general public are afraid to be in conversation with them. Christians need to sloth off their fears and engage with a generation that will soon give up entirely on the church if we are not careful,'  says Dave Wiles, Chief Executive of FYT. 

 

Working in partnership with '2009: Year of The Child ', Frontier Youth Trust is currently developing a FREE resource to assist Churches in celebrating young people in their communities and empowering them to reach their potential. Entitled, Young People's Sunday, the resource will offer material and tools to help churches celebrate young people throughout 2009.

 

Church leaders are asked to pledge their commitment to working towards these objectives and specifically respond to the challenges with a firm undertaking to take appropriate action. Churches are also being prompted to lobby politicians to implement a commitment to long term funding of Christian faith based youth work by writing to MPs and Government ministers.

 

For further information, or to receive a resource pack for Young People's Sunday, please email frontier@fyt.org.uk for details.

 

 

Note to editors:

 

Frontier Youth Trust (FYT) is a registered charity working with young people at risk towards justice, equality and community. Based upon direct experience of youth work and research FYT also supports, resources, informs, advises and trains those working with and on behalf of disadvantaged young people. FYT believes that the most effective youth work is built upon Christian principles.

 

For more information or to arrange interviews - please contact Jo on 0121 687 3505

 

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Home Office: 119 Rush Hill, Bath, BA2 2QT Tel: 01225 480 973
E-Mail: wiles119@aol.com  
web: www.fyt.org.uk

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VACANCY FOR THE POST OF Site Supervisor (27 hours) THE SALVATION ARMY PRESTON (Please circulate widely)

 

 

Subject: VACANCY FOR THE POST OF Site Supervisor (27 hours) THE SALVATION ARMY PRESTON (Please circulate widely)

THE SALVATION ARMY

PRESTON

 

VACANCY FOR THE POST OF

SITE MANAGER (PART-TIME)

 

We are currently looking to recruit a Site Supervisor (27 hours) to support the work of our busy worship & community centre located on Harrington Street in Preston.

Responsibilities will include, supporting building-based activities by preparing rooms for usage, facilitating access by user groups, and maintaining the good working order of the premises by cleaning & minor repairs.

 

 

The post is for 27hours total per week, with some flexibility required as to actual working schedule; some evening and weekend working will also be required.

 

 Salary: £9,828 (£7.00/hour)

 

For an application pack please contact:

Captain Malcolm Martin

The Salvation Army

Harrington Street

Tel: 01772 555425

 

CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS:

Friday 22^nd August 2008

CV's will not be accepted

 

Applicants should have empathy with the Christian mission of The Salvation Army

 

Registered Charity No. 214779, and in Scotland SC009359

 

 

 

 

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Street Pastors in Preston; Message from Chris Drury

Street Pastors is an inter-denominational Church response to urban problems, engaging with people on the streets to care, listen and dialogue. It was pioneered in London in January 2003 by Rev Les Isaac, Director of the Ascension Trust, and has seen some remarkable results, including drops in crime in areas where teams have been working.

 

As a result of the developing relationships between Preston Police, Preston City Council and Preston churches through Hope 08, we now have the opportunity to see this national church initiative happening in Preston by the end of the year. As we as churches seek to serve our city and take the good news of Hope onto our streets, we are being actively encouraged and invited by these civic authorities to engage at grassroots, long term in our city in ways that many people, for many years, have been praying for.

 

We have been asked by the Police, in partnership with them and Preston City Council,  to develop a Street Pastors Project for the St Georges and St Matthews areas of Preston This area includes Fletcher Road, which is the red light district for Preston and we have been asked to specifically input into working with the sex workers in this area. It also includes Meadow Street, Ribbleton Lane and New Hall Lane and is just off of Church Street, all areas of the city with particular night time social problems (alcohol, drugs and anti-social behaviour). There will of course be specific training for volunteers in all these areas that will be delivered in partnership with the Ascension Trust, Police, Neighbourhood Management Teams and other agencies working in these areas.

I do hope that you and your church might feel that this invitation from our city is a bit of a Macedonian call and something which your church might feel able to support, or encourage folk from within your church to become involved in. Anyone over the age of 18 can be involved - age is no barrier; in one project elsewhere in the country, an 81 year old man and his wife are actively serving as Street Pastors!

We realise that it is very hard to answer all of your questions within a letter such as this, and so we would like to invite you and or your congregation to find out more on a Street Pastors Open evening on

Thursday 25^th September, 7.30pm

Fulwood Free Methodist Church

Please could we encourage you to advertise this amazing opportunity within your churches? To assist with this, I attach posters for you to copy and display.

Should you wish to discuss anything in the meantime, please feel free to get in touch with us through phone or e-mail on the above contact details.

I do hope and pray that this invitation to make a difference in the lives of people from within our city is something that your church would feel able to support.

God Bless

 

Chris Drury chrisd@fulwoodfmc.net

 

 

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'EQUALLY DIFFERENT?' the new resource and campaign from the Methodist Church

This materail could be useful for your church 

 

www.methodistchurch.org.uk/equallydifferent

 

Click on the link and find lots of ideas to resource your local Church as it begins to seek to celebrate diversity.

 

This campaign and resource is for the 'inclusion enthuiasts' and those who are less sure of the inclusion agenda.

This campaign and resource can enable your Church to open up conversations in new ways, but in situations which feel safe and familiar to people.

 

what is online now:

daily devotions

homegroups sessions

'what is all this about?' sessions

devotions

 

coming soon:

worship materials

materials for use with young people

materials for use with children

ways to share your ideas

 

keep logging on to see what is new

 

Shalom

 

Alison

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Alison Parker
Methodist Church Equalities & Diversity Project Officer
(01524) 382800
equalities.diversity@googlemail.com
e&d@methodistchurch.org.uk

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A Date for your diary: FYT training for Christian Youth Workers in Preston 28th/ 29th November

Dave Wiles who is CEO of Frontier Youth Trust http://www.fyt.org.uk/ has agreed to come to Preston to help run a training seminar style training event on the broad theme of Christian Youth Outreach to street / unchurched / urban kids.

In the evening of Friday November 28th Dave is offering a session aimed at Christian and other paid and unpaid youth workers on

The Future of youth work: feed back and coffee shop style exploration of this theme based on a consultancy that we have carried out around the UK - see http://www.fyt.org.uk/showdetails,pdf,93.htm for the report

The venue and timings to be confirmed

On Saturday November 29^th we have a tentative booking for The Salvation Army between 10 and 3pm .

The Programme Will take the form of a training day aimed at the people in training for the proposed Street Pastors team but open to anyone with an interest in Christian youth work or serving and reaching those on the margins of society.

Topics to be covered will probably include;

Understanding and Responding to challenging behaviour, including: social and personal context, understanding deeper issues, practical responses, policy needs - a lot of this will be based on Jo and Nigel Pimlott's Grove booklet on this subject.

Young people and Spirituality - looking at models to understand, ways of responding, communication skills, resources that might help...

The events are being organised by Preston Christian Action network working in partnership with other relevant agencies such as Street Pastors and Preston Youth for Christ. For further information email pcan@maister-smith.fsnet.co.uk

PCAN (Chair) Greg Smith
34 Broadgate.
Preston PR1 8DU
Phone no. 01772 827987 / 555425

The Seeds of Exclusion : Newly published report from The Salvation Army

 

 

The effects of social exclusion are often all too easy to see: family breakdown, poverty, poor health, addictive behaviour and homelessness.

The purpose of The Seeds of Exclusion, the fourth in a series of reports published by The Salvation Army, is to identify how patterns of early-life experience contain the seeds of later problems, and how The Salvation Army and others might tackle them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

This new report is well worth a read.. You can download the full report or a summary from:

 

http://www2.salvationarmy.org.uk/seeds

 

 

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Resources for new parents Church army linked

 

This web site may be of interest for anyone involved in ministry to families with babies... have a look.

 

http://www.as2become3.org/

 

 

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FAIR TRADE CONFERENCE SATURDAY JUNE 7TH

OPEN TO CHURCHES OF ALL DENOMINATIONS and none

Livability's residential with Dave Andrews- 5-7 Nov

 

 

Special discount: £30 off if you book by 15 June!

 

Community Transformation: dream or reality?

A residential event facilitated by Dave Andrews

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Date: 5-7 November 2008

Approximate times: Start 4pm Wed 5th Nov- end 3:30pm Fri 7th Nov

Venue: Hothorpe Hall, Theddingworth, Leicestershire, LE17 6QX

Single room:   £175/person including all meals and en-suite room

   Discount: £145/person if paid by 15 June

Shared room:  £125/person including all meals and en-suite room

                            Discount: £95/person if paid by 15 June

Booking essential: Contact Jill Clark -see below

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Taking its inspiration and content both from Dave Andrews' most recent book Compassionate Community Work and the work of Livability (formerly the Shaftesbury Society) and Tearfund with churches in the UK, this event will include a mix of teaching, reflective activities, sharing, personal time, optional workshops and fun. Choose your level of participation according to your need at the time.

          What you can expect:

·         Characteristics of Christ-like community work

·         The chance to share and learn from your stories and hear from others

·         Practical, down-to-earth theology (including the trinity as a model of community development)

·         Skills-based workshops led by practitioners

·         Reflective activities and personal time to think and pray

·         Fun evening activities

 

A brief bio.

Dave Andrews is a Christian community worker, currently based in Australia and with many experience in India's slum communities. He has authored many books on community development, notably 'Not Religion but Love', 'Christi-anarachy' and recently 'Compassionate Community Work'.  He started several community ministries that work with disadvantaged people both in Australia and India. If you want to learn about community development from someone that both knows the theory but more importantly has a life modeled on it then Dave is that person.

 

What others have said about Dave:

"Dave is an extraordinary individual. He is arguably the most outstanding community development worker, both theoretically and technically, to have graduated from this department."

-Tony Kelly, Senior Lecturer in Community Work at the Department of Social Work and Social Policy

 

"There is one thing you need to know about Dave Andrews.  He is dangerous. For example, after Indira Gandhi was shot, two or three thousand people were killed in twenty-four hours in the riots that followed.  Mobs rampaged through streets looking for Sikhs to murder.  Dave convinced Tony, a friend, that it was their job to go out and save these Sikhs.  Finding a besieged house, they put themselves between an armed mob and a Sikh family and saved them from certain death. That's why Dave Andrews is dangerous.  He is ordinary, yet believes ordinary people should take extraordinary risks to confront the cruelty in our world."

-David Engwicht, Author of Eco-City

 

What people said about our 2007 residential event:

"I loved the realism, honesty, practicality and meditation of the sessions."

 

"The little touches are what make all the difference: the welcome at reception by the team, the chocolate bars (always a winner with me)- within minutes of arriving I felt nurtured."

 

Why is the cost higher than our past residential events?

We hope this is because they're getting better each year! But realistically, over the last year Hothorpe Hall has been renovated and all rooms are now en-suite and we will have sole use of the building.  The cost is £125 for a shared en-suite room and £175 for a single en-suite room but if you pay by the 15 June then we are giving a special discount of £30. This includes a £50 non-refundable deposit so if you have to cancel before the 1 September we will refund your fee minus the £50 deposit.  If you cancel after the 1 September we will need to charge you the full fee.

 

Want to get his book?

If you would like to read Compassionate Community Work, you can buy it from Amazon for £15 or directly from the publisher Piquant Editions for £12

 

Please note: this event will be very popular and spaces are limited due to offering single rooms so please book ahead in order not to be disappointed

 

To book:

Contact Jill Clark on 0207 452 2018 or email jclark@livability.org.uk

 

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Setting Up a Fresh Expression event June 26th 2008 Sheffield

Setting Up a Fresh Expression

June 26th 2008         9.30am- 4pm

Wilson Carlile College of Evangelism, Sheffield

 

 

A day that is particularly useful for those in a "traditional" church setting, but thinking about establishing something fresh in their local context. Hear about the experiences of two Church Army evangelists and take part in an interactive exercise to explore in greater depth some of the issues raised.

 

The cost is £15, including refreshments and lunch.

 

To book, or for more information, contact Wendy Evans

Tel 0114-278-7020

w.evans@churcharmy.org.uk

 

Jenny

 

Jenny Richardson

Church Army Lifelong Learning Co-ordinator

   for Evangelism and Fresh Expressions

Wilson Carlile College of Evangelism

Wilson Carlile Campus

Cavendish Street

Sheffield S3 7RZ

0114-252-7272

 

 

 

 

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Community Mission training: Living Amongst- 3 June Bradford

 

 

Living Amongst

.Exploring what Incarnational Living actually means. Is it for us?

 

 

 

Incarnational living is a buzz phrase right now, whether it is in the literature of the emerging church or in the call of inner-city church planters to move into areas of deprivation.   But what does it mean? Is it living locally rather than commuting to church? Is it participating in local community? Or is it concentrating on relationships rather than programmes?

 

This day will consider these ideas and translate them into action to change what we do and the way we live.

 

Tuesday 3rd June

9:45am-3:30pm (we begin promptly at 10am)

St Margaret's Church, Shipley Fields Road, Frizinghall, Bradford, BD18 2DH

£10/person, pay on the day (Includes good lunch and drinks)

 

 

Andrew Grinnell will lead us in a day where we will discuss the following questions:

What do we mean by Incarnational Living?

Is it a helpful term or just buzz words?

Does it inspire us to follow Christ in the 21^st Century context?

How can Incarnational Living be sustainable?  

 

A bit about Andrew:

Andrew Grinnell works for the Salvation Army's ALOVE department and oversees the development of its NEO (New Expressions Of.) church plants across the UK.  He teaches on many training courses, including Crucible and Resource, lives in Leeds and has a passion to see Christians working alongside communities and not just providing things for them to do.

 

To Book: 

Contact David Arscott on 0113 350 8070 (office) 07789 397273 (mb) or darscott@livability.org.uk

 

Travel details:

Frizinghall train station - 4 min walk

Shipley train station - 15 min walk

Local on-road parking

Buses from Bradford Interchange - 662 to Keighley every 10mins - alight at Shipley fields road - 3min walk

 

 

Livability

50 Scrutton Street

London

EC2A 4XQ

 

Tel: 020 7452 2018

Mb: 07747 036 777

Web: www.livability.org.uk/communitymission

 

Livability is the new face of John Grooms and the Shaftesbury Society

 

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Poverty and Justice Bible and other useful web resources

 

Poverty and Justice Bible A new edition which uses the Contemporary English Version (CEV) text, it highlights more than 2,000 verses that spell out God's attitude to poverty and justice. Also includes in-depth studies and practical suggestions on what we can do to tackle poverty and injustice in our world today.

 http://www.povertyandjusticebible.org/Home.php

Ekklesia The award winning think-tank "promoting transformative theological ideas in public life." Sign up for a daily and or weekly email bulletin.

epolitix An informative and comprehensive website for parliamentary business and the policy agenda. Daily or weekly e-bulletins

thirdsector e-bulletin Lots of voluntary sector info with a focus on funding and news in the sector.

 

 

Greg Smith
Community Co-ordinator
The Salvation Army Preston
Harrington Street
Preston PR1 7BN
Tel No (01772) 555425

 

www.sapreston.co.uk
Note this is from my work email address Greg.Smith@salvationarmy.org.uk

 

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Computer suite open day at The Salvation Army Tuesday April 22nd : For circulation to your networks please

 

Please encourage your group members, ordinary local residents and potential IT learners to attend this event. The Mayor of Preston will be in attendance and a buffet lunch will be available.

 

The sessions we will be running open for all are  also  described below..   Places on the taster sessions are likely to be in demand so please reserve a place for these in good time.   

 

We can also offer help  with  a short course aimed at designing and setting up a simple web site for your community group. Please enquire.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Greg Smith
Community Co-ordinator
The Salvation Army Preston
Harrington Street
Preston PR1 7BN
Tel No (01772) 555425

 

www.sapreston.co.uk
Note this is from my work email address Greg.Smith@salvationarmy.org.uk

 

 

New Free computer course for beginners aged over 55 . Please pass on this information to your networks

Greg Smith
Community Co-ordinator
The Salvation Army Preston
Harrington Street
Preston PR1 7BN
Tel No (01772) 555425

http://www.sapreston.co.uk/
Note this is from my work email address Greg.Smith@salvationarmy.org.uk

Fishergate Baptist Church

Visit the new website of Fishergate Baptist Church Preston, which now has its own domain name:

www.fishergatebaptist.org.uk

Read about recent youth projects at the church, conclusions from recent consultations, a developing new vision for the future and our attempt to recruit a team of 12 disciples to renew and strengthen our mission in the city centre.

Is God calling you to join an exciting new city centre ministry team in the centre of the newest city in England, the third city of the North West?

Fishergate Baptist Church in Preston, is looking for a dozen committed Christians willing to join our small congregation, and become part of our team developing new patterns of Christian service and outreach at the heart of the city. We believe our church has a distinctive calling to work among homeless and needy people, and with the young and mobile populations who frequent the city centre. We sense that through this ministry we will find renewal of church life.

We can’t afford to support you financially, but

If you can offer a minimum of 8 hours of your time each week
If you already live locally or are able to move to Preston,
If you are willing to explore new expressions of Christian life and mission
If you can work as a member of a diverse team
If you sense this is a challenge or calling from God
If you are aged between 18 & 95

We’d like to hear from you.

If you want to find out more look at our website www.fishergatebaptist.btik.com and/or contact:

Rev Neil Jones on 01772 862470 or by email on neilandruth@hotmail.com

Fishergate Baptist Church has a new website

Visit the new website of Fishergate Baptist Church Preston, which now has its own domain name:

 

www.fishergatebaptist.org.uk

 

 

 

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