COVID Cash Recovery is a free course for churches, charities and community workers that are supporting people who have been financially affected by Covid-19.
The two-hour online course is led by Transforming Communities Together and Just Finance Foundation.
It will cover rights and entitlements, budgeting, help with bills and much more. Book your FREE place at http://bit.ly/covid-cash-wm.
Black Country Churches Engaged and Churches Linked across Staffordshire and the Potteries have shared their Epiphany 2018 newsletter. In this issue you will read about Homeless Sunday, a training event for people working with children, and the Big Church Day Out. You will also find links to liturgical resources and information about conferences and events…
Maryvale Community Project has launched Get Crafty – a crowdfunding campaign to help them tackle isolation through creativity. With your support, Maryvale wants to launch a weekly craft cafe for older people and adults with learning disabilities. The cafe will combine meeting, eating and creating. The cafe will encourage people to learn new hobbies, or rekindle…
Located in central Birmingham, our partnership project Fatima House offers a sanctuary to vulnerable women who would otherwise be destitute and homeless. Mauricio Silva, one of the Columban Lay Missionaries who manages Fatima House on a day-to-day basis, writes: 2020 will be remembered as a very strange year. Everyone’s life has been affected and, with…
We are pleased to launch ‘Welcome the Stranger’ – a new resource to help people support refugees, asylum seekers and migrants in their neighbourhoods. Most people move to other countries both by choice, but for some it is a necessity. They often need support to settle into a new place and feel at home in…
Abi Martin of St Chad’s Sanctuary writes: At the end of July we had the most wonderful celebration with our ESOL students and tutors. We hired the space at the beautiful Martineau Gardens just off the Pershore Road, which is an oasis of calm in a busy city. We welcomed the guests with tea, coffee,…
On 18 March 2021, Tabor Cottage, the new move-on project from Tabor House, was blessed by Monsignor Tim Menezes, Dean of St Chads Cathedral. The Cottage is a new move on house for guests from Tabor House which is run by Father Hudson’s Care and provides accommodation and support to rough sleepers in Birmingham. The…