Links to partner and other organisations

A selection of organisations, networks and individuals involved in urban and community work.

Agencies are listed under the following categories:

Funding

Regional Networks & Organisations

National Networks & Organisations

Children & Youth agencies

Specialist Networks and Organisations

International Networks & Organisations

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Funding 

• Acts 435 - matches individuals in need (who are verified by a local church) with those willing to meet that need through the website.
  www.acts435.co.uk
• Government Funding - access to government grants for the voluntary and community sector
  www.governmentfunding.org.uk/Page.aspx?SP=327
• Company giving - information on some of the major companies who give
  www.companygiving.org.uk
• Grants for individuals in need
  www.grantsforindividuals.org.uk

• Trust funds - access to the major trusts
  www.trustfunding.org.uk
• Turn2us - helps individuals and those advising them access money available to them – through welfare benefits, grants and other help.
  www.turn2us.org.uk

Regional Networks & Organisations

• Gweini - the council of the Christian Voluntary Sector in Wales
  www.gweini.org.uk/aboutus/index.htm
• Pecan -Transforming the lives of people in disadvantaged communities.
  www.pecan.org.uk
• The Message/Eden Project - working in inner city Manchester and Greater Manchester Schools, plus incarnational living projects in Bradford, London, Newcastle and Sheffield.
  www.message.org.uk  and www.eden-network.org
  
• Transform Leeds - equipping God's people in transforming Bradford and Leeds.
  www.transformcity.org.uk
• UrbanPresence - a Christian organisation seeking to resource Christians and organisations living and working in working in inner-city Manchester .
  www.urbanpresence.org.uk

National Networks & Organisations

• Besom - provides a bridge between those who want to give time, money, things or skills and those who are in need.
  www.besom.com
• Care for the Family - helping local churches engage with their community, primarily though not exclusively, through issues related to family.
  www.engagetoday.org.uk
• Church Action Against Poverty - mobilising churches to work alongside others to overcome poverty in the UK.
  www.church-poverty.org.uk
• CPAS (Church Pastoral Aid Society) - church leadership development and growth, including missional leadership
  www.cpas.org.uk
• Christians Against Poverty - a national debt counselling charity with a network of over 100 centres based in local churches.
  www.capuk.org
• Christian Nightlife Initiatives - Supporting, resourcing and promoting local night-time projects around the country.
  www.cninetwork.org.uk
  
• Church Urban Fund - supporting social action through local organisations in the most deprived areas of England.
  www.cuf.org.uk

• End Child Poverty - campainging to ensure the Government keep their promise to the millions of children experiencing poverty in the UK today.
  www.endchildpoverty.org.uk
• FaithAction -  a magazine for churches seeking to address social needs in their local communities.
  www.faithaction.org 
• Faithworks - exists to empower and inspire individual Christians and every local church to develop their role at the hub of their community.
  www.faithworks.info
• HOPE Together (began as Hope 08)- supports the local church to speak and live its mission, in unity, to see spiritual change in individuals and see communities transformed.
  www.hopetogether.org.uk
• Joseph Rowntree Foundation - researching poverty & inequality and contributing to the building and development of strong, sustainable and inclusive communities
  www.jrf.org.uk
• LICC - helps Christians engage biblically and relevantly with the issues they face, and demonstrate that Christ is indeed relevant to the deepest needs.
  www.licc.org.uk
• The Poverty Site - a joint project between the New Policy Institute and JRF monitoring poverty and social exclusion in the UK.
  www.poverty.org.uk

• Micah Challenge UK - a coalition of Christian organisations and churches in Britain, united in their concern to fight global poverty.
  www.micahchallenge.org.uk
• Square Mile - An Evangelical Alliance project to encourage the building of 4D churches committed to Mercy, Influence, Life discipleship and Evangelism.
  www.eauk.org/squaremile/index.cfm
• UNLOCK - helping urban churches respond to the challenges in their areas. Especially concerned with communication in a non-book, or text-shy culture.
  www.unlock-urban.org.uk
• Urban Expression - an urban mission agency pioneering creative and relevant expressions of  the Christian church in under-churched areas of the inner city.
  www.urbanexpression.org.uk
• URC Church Related Community Work - seeing community development work as the most empowering and enabling way for the church to express its beliefs in action, in ministry and in mission
  www.urc.org.uk/what_we_do/crcw/community_work_in_the_church
  

Children & Youth agencies

• ALove/NEO - Salvation Army work amongst young people including church planting.
  www2.salvationarmy.org.uk/alove
  
• Barnardos - runs many projects nationwide focusing on vulnerable children, plus research and campaigning.
  www.barnardos.org.uk
• Children's Society - defending, safeguarding and protecting  the childhood of all children through projects, research and campaigning.
  www.childrenssociety.org.uk
• CURBS - provides Christian resources for children from the inner city and urban estates plus support, training and encouragement for children's workers in such areas.
  www.curbsproject.org.uk 
• Frontier Youth Trust - a Christian network dedicated to mission with young people at risk and directly involved in youth work through a wide range of projects, agencies, churches and individuals. Also involved with youth work training.
  www.fyt.org.uk
  
• KidzKlubs - resources and ideas on reaching kids in your community. 
  www.kidzKlub.biz
• Messy Church - ideas and resources for churches to reach families with young children on the fringe of the church through a monthly time of creativity, worship and eating together.
  www.messychurch.org.uk

Specialist Networks & Organisations

• ARocha - Christian community-focused nature conservation in the UK and overseas.
  www.arocha.org

• Credit Action -  money education and literacy
  www.creditaction.org.uk
• Beyond the Streets (formerly the National Christian Alliance on Prostitution)  - committed to facilitating a network to assist groups in providing opportunities for freedom and change to people involved in prostitution.
  www.beyondthestreets.org.uk
• Breathe/Conspiracy of Freedom - A Christian network for simpler living connecting people who want to live a less consumerist, more generous, more sustainable life and helping them to begin the conversation with others.
  http://breathenetwork.org and http://conspiracyoffreedom.org

• EQUIP (formerly ECSR) - assisting and equipping Christians to express God's love in practical and informed ways to asylum seekers and refugees in the UK 
  www.equipnetwork.org.uk
• Hope UK – enables children and young people to make drug-free choices by training volunteers to become Drug Educators in their own communities.
  www.hopeuk.org
  
• Housing Justice - gives voice to Christian concern and encourages action on homelessness and housing.
  
• Restored - an international Christian alliance working to transform relationships and end violence against women.
  www.restoredrelationships.org

International Networks & Organisations

• Dave Andrews - a Christian community worker and writer, Dave is interested in radical spirituality, incarnational community and the dynamics of personal and social transformation.     
  www.daveandrews.com.au
• Plan B - be the change you want to see.  A global web-based campaign to encourage people to practice the Be-Attitudes - allowing them to change us and then the world.
  www.wecan.be
• Christian Comunity Development Association (CCDA) -  inspiring, training, and connecting Christians in the US involved in reclaiming and restoring under-resourced communities. 
  www.ccda.org
• InnerCHANGE - a Christian order among the poor living in poor, marginalised neighbourhoods around the world
  www.crmleaders.org/ministries/innerchange
• Mustard Seed Associates - a community of new conspirators founded by Tom and Christine Sine creating the future one mustard seed at a time
  www.msainfo.org

• Sojourners -  the biblical call to social justice, inspiring hope and building a movement to transform individuals, communities, the church, & the world.
  www.Sojo.net