Creating strong partnerships to make your work happen
Rugby Refresh found a one hour consultation on Skype around pastoral consultation useful - web site
The Effective Christian Presence Enterprise Project" is an interesting read - www.crc-online.org.uk and www.faithworks.info/ecpe
The National Policing improvement Agency carried out a Volunteers Patrol Briefing
The Association of Town Centre Management may be able to offer links, help and partnership in your locality - www.atcm.org
Faithworks has produced an excellent Faithworks Charter and lots of really good resources. Street Angels - Christian Nightlife Initiatives are affiliated to the Faithworks Movement.
City Links are an organisation promoting partnership between church and police. Church and Community has ideas for helping churches engage better with the wider community. Many of the national denominations have workers who specialise in helping churches within reaching out.
The Charity Commission will help you set up as a charity and also has resources such as Memorandum, Articles of Association, Objectives, etc (a Word copy of ours is on the Network page). The Street Angels - Christian Nightlife Initiatives objectives can be found on the Network page - you can amend these to suit your own project!
A CNI project may well meet some of your Local Area Agreement - this is a partnership document looking at what and how services can be delivered in your Borough. The Safer and Stronger Communities department may be able to help or contact a councillor. The Compact is also in place as an agreement between local Government and the voluntary / community sector to improve the relationship for mutual advantage and community gain and may well help you in your talks with the Council, Police, NHS, etc.
Volunteering England and National Association of Voluntary and Community Action can offer resources around working with volunteers. Your local volunteer bureau may well be able to offer assistance with this as well.
The Effective Christian Presence Enterprise Project" is an interesting read - www.crc-online.org.uk and www.faithworks.info/ecpe
The National Policing improvement Agency carried out a Volunteers Patrol Briefing
The Association of Town Centre Management may be able to offer links, help and partnership in your locality - www.atcm.org
Faithworks has produced an excellent Faithworks Charter and lots of really good resources. Street Angels - Christian Nightlife Initiatives are affiliated to the Faithworks Movement.
City Links are an organisation promoting partnership between church and police. Church and Community has ideas for helping churches engage better with the wider community. Many of the national denominations have workers who specialise in helping churches within reaching out.
The Charity Commission will help you set up as a charity and also has resources such as Memorandum, Articles of Association, Objectives, etc (a Word copy of ours is on the Network page). The Street Angels - Christian Nightlife Initiatives objectives can be found on the Network page - you can amend these to suit your own project!
A CNI project may well meet some of your Local Area Agreement - this is a partnership document looking at what and how services can be delivered in your Borough. The Safer and Stronger Communities department may be able to help or contact a councillor. The Compact is also in place as an agreement between local Government and the voluntary / community sector to improve the relationship for mutual advantage and community gain and may well help you in your talks with the Council, Police, NHS, etc.
Volunteering England and National Association of Voluntary and Community Action can offer resources around working with volunteers. Your local volunteer bureau may well be able to offer assistance with this as well.
