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Below are links to websites covering related topics organised under the headings below. Inclusion of an organisation in this section does not indicate that their views are necessarily those of UMTP. This page is in the early stages of development - the aim is to add more links to create a useful resource. Please contact us to add details of your site.
Building Church / Church Development
Anglican
Church Planting Initiatives (ACPI)
ACPI
is a small charity with limited resources, run on a tight budget but with a
committed central team and a large national network.
Building
Bridges of Hope
Building
Bridges of Hope (BBH) is a learning and sharing process for churches who are
seeking new, creative ways of engaging with their communities for the sake of
the Gospel and the common good.
Church
Care
www.churchcare.co.uk
is a 'one-stop shop' for anyone involved in the running of a church. Church Care
is brought to you by the Archbishops' Council, serving the parishes of the
Church of England.
Churches'
Commission on Mission
The
Churches' Commission on Mission is the official meeting point for the
departments and agencies of the British and Irish churches concerned with world
mission and evangelisation. It has 34 member bodies and affiliates. CCOM
operates through Forums on world regions and mission issues. Its main function
is co-ordination rather than programmatic work. It is not a grant-making body.
New Way of Being Church
New Way is a network of people
who seek to co-operate with Jesus Christ in the formation of God's new order of
justice, love and peace. They encourage
people engaged in transforming the places where they live and work into
communities of hope. They provide workshops, publications, a resource
library and a website.
Amazon.co.uk:
Resources for an Urban Future, Cities, Globalization & more - List by Andrew Davey
List of books on urban issues compiled by Andrew Davey, Board for Social Responsibility, Archbishops' Council, Church of England.
Amazon.co.uk:
Resources for an Urban Theology - List by Andrew Davey
List of books on urban theology issues compiled by Andrew Davey, Board for Social Responsibility, Archbishops' Council, Church of England.
Bishop
Laurie Green - Bishop
of Bradwell in the Diocese of Chelmsford
This site aims to share some of the
exciting challenges being addressed by the Church in South Essex. Many of
Bishop Laurie's interests are also represented here, including Globalisation,
Mission, Urban Ministry, Contextual Theology, the Church in Essex and
world-wide, Ministerial Training, and much more.
Church
Army - Encounters on the Edge
George Lings’ series of quarterly investigations looking at emerging forms of
Anglican Churches, crossing the widening gap to the non churched.
Churches'
Regional Commission in the North East
Enables the churches to engage with the economic, social and cultural life of
the region.
City
Voices
City
Voices is a nonprofit organization incorporated within the State of Illinois,
USA for the purpose of inspiring, educating and serving pastors and ministry
leaders throughout the United States through the printed media. The website
includes information for wider interest.
Jesus
in the City - Glasgow 2004
An event which brings
together urban Christians from throughout the UK, people who live and work in
the inner City. It provides the opportunity to meet with other people who also
are seeking to work out the call of the gospel in very challenging circumstances. The
event is a congress, not a conference; a coming together in a particular context
to hear stories of churches and projects and people, to worship together, to
talk together, to reflect on ways forward in their own situation.
Industrial
Mission Association, IMAgenda Online
The IMA is ecumenical and exists to support
and co-ordinate the Churches' ministry to those engaged in producing the wealth
and providing the services upon which we all depend, nationally and
globally. IMAgenda Online is the web-based version of the IMA's publication.
G
Smith, Centre for Institutional Studies, University of East London
Greg Smith is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Institutional Studies. The site includes details of current projects and
publications.
Unlock
Unlock, formerly EUTP, is an organisation with the following aims: Unlocking
real life stories of urban people; Revealing Good News of the Down to Earth
Christ; Releasing life changing skills & confidence.
William
Temple Foundation
Founded over 50 years ago as a college in memory of Archbishop William Temple,
the Foundation has consistently sought to be at the cutting edge of theological
reflection and training in response to evolving social trends. For the last 4
years it has been part of the partnership for theological education based at
Luther King House in South Manchester.
Communities / Voluntary Sector - general
British
Association of Settlements and Social Action Centres (bassac)
bassac
is a membership
network of multi-purpose community organisations. It represents its diverse
members at a national level and offers them strategic support.
Churches Community Work Alliance
Community
Development Foundation
The
Community Development Foundation (CDF) is a non-departmental public body
supported by the Active
Community Unit of the Home Office. Its role is to pioneer, study and promote
new forms of community development, in order to inform public policy,
professional practice and community initiatives.
Community
Foundation
The Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland helps to
build stronger communities by encouraging local giving. It offers a
cost-effective way for donors to make a long-term difference to the causes close
to their heart. Through its understanding of local issues, the Community
Foundation can make perceptive and well-targeted grants that secure the future
for generations to come.
Community Links
National organisation that provides day-to-day activities for children,
young people and adults, working in deprived areas. Also produces a range of
publications on working in communities.
Community
Matters
Community
Matters is the nationwide federation for community associations and similar
organisations, with over 1,000 member organisations across the UK. Originally
established as the National Federation of Community Associations in 1945,
Community Matters has played a key role in promoting and supporting action by
ordinary people in response to social, educational and recreational needs in
their neighbourhoods and communities.
Home Office Active Community Unit
The Active Community Unit (ACU) contributes to the delivery of Home Office
Aim 7: "To support strong and active communities in which people of all
races and backgrounds are valued and participate on equal terms by developing
social policy to build a fair, prosperous and cohesive society in which everyone
has a stake … and to ensure that active citizenship contributes to the
enhancement of democracy and the development of civil society." It is also
responsible for the achievement of the Government’s target of increasing
voluntary & community sector activity, including increasing community
participation, by 5% by 2006.
Joseph Rowntree Foundation
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation is one of the
largest independent social policy research and development charities in the UK.
It supports a wide programme of research and development projects in housing,
social care and social policy.
Urban Forum
Urban Forum is an umbrella body for community and
voluntary groups with interests in urban and regional policy, especially
regeneration. It was set up in 1994 as the national voluntary organisation
through which local and central government could relate to
the community and and voluntary sectors on such issues.
VolResource
VolResource
aims to make it quick and easy to get to useful information on anything to do
with running a voluntary organisation (whether a community group, charity or
other non-profit body).
VONNE
The
Voluntary Organisations' Network
North East (VONNE) is the voluntary and community sector regional network
organisation for the North East of England.
Community & Voluntary Sector Organisations
Communities Online
Communities
Online is a not-for-profit registered
company which exists to harness the potential of information and communications
technology for the benefit of all. It aims to
address issues of sustainability, regeneration, social inclusion and healthier
economies by focusing on the use of new communications technologies in
communities and neighbourhoods.
Healthworks East
Healthworks East is a community led approach to improving the health of
people living in the East End of Newcastle. The organisation supports community
groups and voluntary sector organisations to run activities that address
inequalities in health. There is a steering group made up of local people and
local workers, supported by development, finance and administrative staff.
Neighbourhood
Initiatives Foundation
The
Foundation is a
national charity based in Telford, Shropshire, specialising in community
participation, training and development. Working with local authorities, housing
associations, voluntary agencies and community groups, it offers an independent,
quality service to improve the well-being of communities.
Total
Learning Challenge (TLC)
The
vision of the TLC is a world where every disaffected youth can access effective
and informed inter-agency programmes. The TLC aims to develop structures for
funding and systems of delivering group interventions in schools across Britain,
thereby co-ordinating partner organisations in the early identification and
effective treatment of disaffection symptoms.
Newcastle
Gateshead Initiative
This site has been produced by Newcastle Gateshead Initiative - the destination
marketing agency for the area, created from a powerful partnership between
Newcastle City and Gateshead councils and the private sector. Includes
information on the NewcastleGateshead City
of Culture 2008 bid.
Northern
Arts
Northern Arts is the Regional Arts Development Agency for the North of
England. It exists "to Promote the Arts in the North". The site
includes details on its activities, grants and sources of further information.
Newcastle upon Tyne / North East
byker.info
Byker in Newcastle upon Tyne, England,
is a pioneering housing development of European significance and influence. This
website, set up by the North East Civic Trust, includes information on
buildings, landscape, community, history and the conservation plan together with
a map and images.
Community
Foundation
The Community Foundation serving Tyne & Wear and Northumberland helps to
build stronger communities by encouraging local giving. It offers a
cost-effective way for donors to make a long-term difference to the causes close
to their heart. Through its understanding of local issues, the Community
Foundation can make perceptive and well-targeted grants that secure the future
for generations to come.
CREUE
CREUE focuses on cities, institutions and urban policy, with specific emphasis
on urban regeneration, planning and development, processes, governance issues,
transport and planning policy, the everyday life experience of health, housing
and discrimination, community development, social exclusion and EU spatial
policy.
Diocese
of Newcastle upon Tyne
These pages contain a variety
of material -- a general introduction to the diocese, administrative
details, diocesan structures, personnel and contact details as well as news
items, a prayer page and links to other sites which may be of interest.
Gateshead Council
Website for the Local Authority includes links to a wealth of local information.
Government
Office for the North East
Government Office for the North East works with regional partners and
local people to maximise competitiveness and prosperity in the region, and to
support integrated policies for social inclusion.
Newcastle City Council
Website for the Local Authority includes links to a wealth of local information.
Newcastle
Gateshead Initiative
This site has been produced by Newcastle Gateshead Initiative - the destination
marketing agency for the area, created from a powerful partnership between
Newcastle City and Gateshead councils and the private sector. Includes
information on the NewcastleGateshead City
of Culture 2008 bid.
Northern
Arts
Northern Arts is the Regional Arts Development Agency for the North of
England. It exists "to Promote the Arts in the North". The site
includes details on its activities, grants and sources of further information.
One
NorthEast
One NorthEast is the Regional Development Agency
for the North East of England. It was established by Government to develop a
strategy for the economic development of the Region, by encouraging new
investment and entrepreneurial growth, the expansion and development of
educational opportunities, and the redevelopment of the Region's industrial,
logistics,
and urban and rural infrastructures.
TyneWear
Partnership
The TyneWear Partnership provides a focus for the economic
development and regeneration of Tyne and Wear. It has developed a Tyne and Wear Economic
Strategy which outlines the priorities for the area.
City:
analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action
Journal edited by Bob Catterall, Centre for Research in Knowledge Science and
Society, University of Newcastle, UK; published by Carfax Publishing.
CREUE
CREUE focuses on cities, institutions and urban policy, with specific emphasis
on urban regeneration, planning and development, processes, governance issues,
transport and planning policy, the everyday life experience of health, housing
and discrimination, community development, social exclusion and EU spatial
policy.
Engaging Faith Communities in Urban Regeneration
This is a Joseph Rowntree Foundation funded project led by a team of researchers
based at various universities. The research addresses a neglected field in regeneration policy research, that is engaging of faith communities in regeneration and neighbourhood renewal.
New
Start
New Start is the first choice weekly news magazine in the UK
for all involved in community regeneration. It exists to provide news,
comment and analysis for all concerned with regeneration, physical, economic and
social, and to stimulate debate and discussion of policy. New
Start is totally independent, both editorially and commercially.
Regeneration
& Renewal
Website for weekly magazine on regeneration issues which includes news,
features and archive material on physical and community regeneration
issues together with advertisements for services, appointments and
tenders.
Urban Forum
Urban Forum is an umbrella body for community and
voluntary groups with interests in urban and regional policy, especially
regeneration. It was set up in 1994 as the national voluntary organisation
through which local and central government could relate to
the community and and voluntary sectors on such issues.
Urban and Regional Regeneration Bulletin
Theological Education & Training
Industrial Mission Association
This organisation co-ordinates the work of Industrial Chaplains and Lay-people
interested in relating Christian Faith to the moral and spiritual issues arising
out of the Economy and the Workplace. Some IMA students have an annual study day with
UMTP.
Bishop Laurie Green
- Bishop of
Bradwell in the Diocese of Chelmsford
This site aims to share some of the
exciting challenges being addressed by the Church in South Essex. Many of
Bishop Laurie's interests are also represented here, including Globalisation,
Mission, Urban Ministry, Contextual Theology, the Church in Essex and
world-wide, Ministerial Training, and much more.
NEICE (North of
England Institute for Christian Education)
NEICE is an independent ecumenical research institute engaged in: theoretical
and empirical research in Christian learning and Christian education; resourcing
practical teaching in Christian education; reflection and research in practical
theology.
University of Durham - St John's / Cranmer Hall
Site includes details of courses for ordinands, clergy and lay people who
are looking to be equipped for Christian ministry in contemporary society.
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Dept of Religious Studies
The University offers an MA in Applied Theology which includes a module on 'Regeneration: Theology & Practice'
taught by UMTP's Peter Robinson.
Community
Development Foundation
The
Community Development Foundation (CDF) is a non-departmental public body
supported by the Active
Community Unit of the Home Office. Its role is to pioneer, study and promote
new forms of community development, in order to inform public policy,
professional practice and community initiatives.
Home Office Active Community Unit
The Active Community Unit (ACU) contributes to the delivery of Home Office
Aim 7: "To support strong and active communities in which people of all
races and backgrounds are valued and participate on equal terms by developing
social policy to build a fair, prosperous and cohesive society in which everyone
has a stake … and to ensure that active citizenship contributes to the
enhancement of democracy and the development of civil society." It is also
responsible for the achievement of the Government’s target of increasing
voluntary & community sector activity, including increasing community
participation, by 5% by 2006.
National
Statistics Online
This
is the UK's home of official statistics, reflecting Britain's economy,
population and society at national and local level. Summary stories and detailed
data releases are published here free of charge.
Voluntary
and Community Sector Grants
Welcome
to Voluntary and Community Sector Grants web site, a pilot Government web-site
which provides information for voluntary and community organisations on the
grants available from 4 Government Departments - Home Office, Department for
Education and Skills, Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions
and the Department of Health.
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