Christian Resources
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Love Southampton CLEAR Impact Evaluation
This impact evaluation demonstrates the crucial and continued role of faith-based organisations, particularly local churches, in supporting refugees, asylum seekers and migrants arriving in local communities.
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Love Southampton Food Poverty and Distribution – A Model for the Wider Church
The headline results are simple staggering. Over 1.4 million meals were distributed in a year, equivalent to £5.8millions worth of food, delivered by 18,720 hours of work by volunteers. Moreover, this support has moved from emergency…
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Love Southampton Report: 2022-2023
I am delighted to report that Love Southampton has become a voice for the churches in the city and have developed strong and positive relations with Southampton City Council, the NHS and other significant local organisations.…
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Safeguarding Adults Guidance for Christian Faith Organisations
Safeguarding means protecting an individual’s right to live in safety, free from abuse and neglect; it is about organisations working together to prevent and stop both the risks and experience of abuse, exploitation or neglect. Safeguarding…
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Guidance for Christian faith organisations in the support and value of older people
This guidance has developed out of a lifelong passion and interest for Karen Grimshaw and I. We first met at university in London some 40 years ago and we became lifelong friends. We both developed a…
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Leading Successful Teams in Churches and Christian Faith-Based Organisations
The purpose of this text is t help Christians understand what constitutes a successful team, and how to develop and maintain one in practice. Within this text we explore why some teams excel and others do not,…
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Loneliness in Older People: Guidance on How Christian Faith Organisations Can Support Older People Facing Loneliness
It is well known that we have an ageing population, and that our churches too having ageing memberships; with the numbers of those living above 80 years of age having the fastest and greatest increases. These…
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Stress and Burnout in Church and Christian Faith-Based Organisations
Burnout is a “syndrome of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and reduced personal accomplishment that can occur among individuals who work with people in some capacity (Maslach 1996:193). This definition, whilst helpful, fails to convey the potentially life-shattering…