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Previous Events:

Manipulation or Motivation : How to make the most of the time, skills and experience of your volunteers.

Tuesday 17th March 2009, 9.45am -3.30pm Methodist Mission Huddersfield, 3-13 Lord Street, HD1 1QA.

Back by popular demand after Livability ran this event in April 2008, this event was being hosted by CRC, West Yorkshire Ecumenical Council and Livability.

With limited budgets, and staff, churches and community projects rely heavily on volunteers. But are we really looking after and listening to them? Do we make the most of their potential? The day will cover: understanding motivations: why do people volunteer for Christian projects? Top tips on how to motivate others. The art of communication and how to deal with tricky issues.

The facilitators: David Arscott and Jon Kurht of the Community Mission Team at Livability.

Church Friendly Funding

This was held on Wednesday 15 October 2008 9.30 a.m.- 4.00 p.m., St Andrew's Church, Skipton. Sponsored by CRC, WYEC, the Diocese of Bradford and St Andrew's Church, Skipton. Following the very successful Funding Day held in April in York. Featuring case studies, workshops, resources

Effective Christian Presence and Enterprise - launch of research
This was held on Thursday 12th June 2008, in Leeds

About the findings of CRC's three year research and active-learning programme on Effective Christian Presence and Enterprise. Have we got the right leaders in the churches? How do we sustain our work? How can we be more effective? Speakers included Fran Beckett, Chief Exec of the Church Urban Fund, Malcolm Duncan of Faithworks and Liz Carnelley. To download the report

Funding Day
Tuesday 15th April 9.30 a.m.- 4.00 p.m., St Columba's URC, York

A practical programme of case studies, inspirational speakers and workshops to help churches find funding for their work and write successful bids.

Speakers included:

Ian Owers: freelance consultant, until recently CEO of Active Faith Communities
Anne Dannerolle: has set up a number of community action projects at Hull Community Church and was key to the building of a £2 million church and centre
Alex Jowett and Max Dudley: are elders at St Andrew’s Church, and the project has redesigned and developed the church grounds, with grant funding.
Tammy Jo Whittaker: is a Development Officer, English Heritage, Yorkshire Region

Workshops:

Churches in partnership – strengths and pitfalls: Kathryn Fitzsimons
Policies and procedures you need to have in place to apply for public funding: Liz Carnelley
How to adapt church buildings for mission and how to attract funds – good examples and best practice: Roy Thompson
Raising 2 million for a new build church: Anne Dannerolle
How grant-making bodies assess applications and how to hit targets: Ian Drummond
Making successful grant applications: Jill Jones (AFC)
Being focussed on Outcomes, and Evaluation: Mark Woodhead (AFC)

MIGRATION ENQUIRY
Tuesday 6 May 2008 at 10.00 for 10.30 a.m.-3.00 p.m. at Leeds Church Institute, 20 New Market Street, Leeds, LS1 6DG

Churches Together in England and Churches Together in Britain and Ireland say that the challenges to the churches posed by the current levels of migration cannot be denied or ignored. The consultation in Leeds, co-operation with the Churches Commission for Yorkshire and the Humber, is an opportunity both to hear from others and to share what you can.

Fair Finance? Second regional seminar on financial inclusion

June 30^th 2006, 9.30 – 12.45, St Anne’s Cathedral Hall, Leeds

There is growing concern about the problems of access to affordable credit faced by poorer people trapping them in poverty and the need for new strategies to overcome this. The Churches Regional Commission for Yorkshire and the Humber invite you to attend a second regional seminar which includes national speakers from the banking sectors, to revisit issues, assess progress and examine potential solutions for our region. This follow up seminar aimed to consider ways of enabling more people to share in the region’s prosperity by making financial services as inclusive as possible.

It was particularly targeted towards decision makers in regional organisations, the financial sector and the voluntary sector and people in the churches and faith-based organisations.

The programme included:

Current issues Karen Wood, Rural Communities Team and Citizens Advice Bureau
The Role of the Financial Sector Seymour Fortescue, Chief Executive of the Banking Standards Code Board and Karen Swainston, Regional Liaison Manager of Barclays Bank
New Approaches Eric Thompson, Chief Executive of Financial Inclusion Services Yorkshire
Faith Perspectives on Finance John Packer, Bishop of Ripon and Leeds and Mufti Yusuf Akudi, Muslim scholar
The Way Forward – Panel

A Briefing Paper published by CRC to introduce the issues, report on progress towards solutions and facilitate action within local communities is currently being updated following developments and the seminar event. The Paper will be free, and available to download from this website in the Autumn of 2006 or by request from CRC. You can also get in touch with the Social Inclusion Task Group leading this area of work via CRC with your comments and queries.

Seminars

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