Street Angels - CNI Network

More about the CNI network...

CNI Network is an organisation here to help you, whether you are a Street Angels project, a night café to the homeless, even Chaplaincy to a lap dancing club – any project working within the night time economy (5.00pm – 6.00am as defined by Association of Town Centre Management) . 

Our aim is to support the exciting work done by fantastic volunteers week by week which goes on up and down the country to forward the mission to God to those often missed from our church radar. 

CNI Network was launched in July 2008 and has: 

  • seen massive and sustained reductions in violent crime and sexual assaults in many towns and cities; 
  • offered help and assistance to thousands of people, some of whom are the most vulnerable in society; 
  • invested thousands of volunteer hours to our towns and cities at a time when help is most needed;
  • become a nationally recognised voice for faith communities working within the night-time economy;
  • actively promoting government agendas such as The Big Society and Localism;
  • publishes a monthly newsletter distributed to around 2000 people by email and social networking;
  • raised the profile of projects with national church networks, Government departments, MP's, Policing, etc;
  • offering up to date information on a wide range of relevant issues via our Blog page 

CNI is an umbrella organisation for projects which are all locally driven and helps provide the bigger and more strategic picture for local projects to link into.

CNI is here to help you! We can… 

  • offer practical support with starting up and the ongoing work of your project (see resources / setting up); 
  • offer free and fast email, phone and Facebook chat support from Paul or the Regional Coordinators;
  • organise for one of the regional coordinators to visit you and your project (expenses to be met by you); 
  • available for speaking engagements at conferences, services, events, etc - nothing is too small (expenses met by you)
  • opportunities to visit other projects across the UK;
  • offer guidance around training and how you can link with local training providers;
  • use of the Street Angels - CNI charity number and Gift Aid;
  • help with your media presence to push the good news stories; 
  • offer general promotions online through our website - cninetwork.org.uk, Twitter, Facebook and newsletter;
  • promote, organise and support large conferences with high profile speakers;
  • promote prayer across the network;
  • support you in the early stages of your new project (expenses to be met by you);
  • offer a range of material to churches to highlight the wider needs within our communities especially at night;
  • the opportunity to help develop new ideas and initiatives (such as LoveYourStreets!)

CNI has also helped develop loveyourstreets.org.uk and wehelpedu.org.uk which are helping initiatives across the country engage with their communities more strategically and has a TV series makingthedifference.tv which is showcasing the amazing things happening at a local level.

Why not join us? We are now looking to expand the network to new and established projects. Membership to CNI is free, but we do ask for donations to cover our work - become part of CNI below.... You will then be taken to the CAF Giving Online page to make a donation...


The vision and aims of CNI are:

  • To help individual projects be part of the bigger picture of what God is doing within the night-time economy

  • To help facilitate a network to share ideas, prayer, news, concerns and to help build support for one another across the wide range of projects.

  • To offer help and assistance to towns and cities wanting to start Street Angels, or similar, project – there are resources freely available on-line with Paul (based in Halifax) and Adam (based in Bedford) acting as contacts for new towns and cities.
  • To promote the range and impact of Christian based initiatives – this is done through web sites, Facebook, and monthly newsletters and more formally through discussion and involvement with agencies such as Home Office, National Police, church structures, etc.
 
  • To help establish local, regional and national links with one another, as we believe where there is unity God commands his blessing!
 
It is exciting to see what God has done over the last few years in terms of mobilising his people to serve others within the night-time economy of over sixty towns and cities across the UK. Whilst it is right each project remains independent it is good to be linked to a Network of similar projects and we hope to see every Street Angel, Town Pastor, NightLight, Street Chaplains, Street Ministers, etc become part of CNI and show a strong unity to one another…

Street Angels - Christian Nightlife Initiatives is affiliated to the Faithworks movement - see here.

See here for some quotes about the work of CNI.

The Legal Bit:

Street Angels - Christian Nightlife Initiatives is a Registered Charity (number 1136416) and a Company Limited by Guarantee (number 07173090). A copy of the Memorandum / Articles of Association can be downloaded here. The Charitable Objectives of Street Angels - Christian Nightlife Initiatives are:

a) To promote the physical, mental and spiritual wellbeing of the inhabitants of the borough of Calderdale, West Yorkshire and elsewhere in the UK, by, in particular but not exclusively by the provision of pastoral care and the formation of Street Angels Programme for the benefit of the local community of the borough of Calderdale and elsewhere in the UK, without distinction of race, sex, political, religious or other opinion of the members of such community.

b) To support, care and treat persons in need who are homeless and suffering from the effects of poverty, sickness, disability, old age, alcoholism, drug addiction, offending behaviour, or any other mental or physical infirmity, as an expression of Christian faith.