Our local group in Sheffield have sent us this report on a meeting which was held at Sheffield Victoria Hall on Saturday 29 November.
Poverty in Sheffield : a way forward
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Category Archives: Listen Up!
“I’m not certain that most people in church really care.”
Today, a new resource is being launched for churches who want to be more inclusive of congregation members who are in poverty. It contains notes and ideas from Church Action on Poverty – and a testimony from Revd Ali Dorey, based on her experiences of our own ‘Listen Up’ project. In this video clip and extract, Ali explains how she was herself changed simply by listening to people’s stories.
Building on local strengths
In this third guest blog about our ‘Listen Up!’ work with partner churches, Nick Waterfield reflects on how the approach has tied in with the work of the community project where he is employed.
Resourcefulness against the odds
In Sheffield, the Listen Up! programme is helping local churches to hear the stories of people in poor communities, and work together for change. It’s an example of Church Action on Poverty’s ‘partner church’ work. In this guest blog, Revd Ali Dorey shares some of the stories that have emerged.
A good listening to
‘What I need is a good listening to’. That was the headline, a few years ago, of a powerful ad campaign run by the Children’s Society. Not the ‘good talking to’ from a cross adult, more familiar to many children. But adults need ‘a good listening to’, too.
In this guest blog, Revd Al Barratt writes about how an idea developed through our work with partner churches is helping his parish in Birmingham.
Listening to the people who are living the ‘Perfect Storm’
The challenges posed by current benefit changes, public sector cuts and wider economic recession have been described as a ‘perfect storm’. But do we, let alone politicians, really understand what that looks like to those living with the day-to-day reality?
