UMTP is involved with the following organisations and groups: East End Community and Voluntary Sector Forum, the East End Community Chest panel, school governing bodies, East End Partnership, European Funding Panel for Newcastle, HealthWorks, the Walker Riverside Community Network, the Diocesan Church Schools Committee, the Continuing Ministerial Education Committee, the Education and Training Select Committee, East End Community Health Project, Regen School, Newcastle Regeneration Forum, Newcastle Community Empowerment Fund, and the TyneWear Partnership’s Pentagon Partnership.
UMTP's Community Engagement role was led from January 2000 to January 2005 by the Rev'd Jeremy Clark-King. At the beginning of March Jeremy become the Rector of St Martin's, North Vancouver in the Anglican Church of Canada. All the friends of UMTP wish Jeremy and Ellen well in their new life and responsibilities across the Atlantic.
The community engagement role will be advertised in due course. In the meantime, if anyone would like to make any enquiry about the task of community engagement or indeed about this vacancy then please contact the Rev'd Peter Robinson.
Community Engagement Aims
- To create a setting where local people, Church and non-Church, can share what they have learnt about discovering God in the East End of Newcastle with each other and with people who come to learn.
- That those who come in and those who are already there learn from each other.
- That together we can seek justice in the regeneration of our City, Church and country.
Community Engagement Key Principles
- Start where we are - not where anyone else would want us to start from.
- Get away from the 'goldfish bowl'.
- Hold the tension between the parish and the project.
- Hold the tension between the local and the global.
Community Engagement Objectives
- To coordinate the church's involvement in regeneration initiatives across the Byker/Walker basin in Newcastle upon Tyne.
- To establish partnerships with local agencies and projects.
- To establish partnerships with community groups.
- To increase the capacity of local residents for participation in the development of the local area.
- To draw local people into the project's processes of action and reflection.
- To reflect theologically on community engagement.
- To share the project's methodology and outcomes with the wider community and church.
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