Projects

Workcare - Researching ways Churches can Support Young Adults seeking Work

This six-month project, undertaken by Coventry and Warwickshire's workplace chaplaincy organsiation and funded by St Peter's Saltley Trust, aims to research and share successful examples of local projects (including church-initiated projects) to provide support, education, training, job-searchingor work experience opportunities to young adults in the current period of high unemployment. A conference sharing project findings is planned for 18 October 2011. For more information contact: paul.franklin@virgin.net .
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EARTH - Environment and Religions Transformation Hub - Feasibility Study

This feasibility study, funded by St Peter's Saltley Trust, aims to test out the concept of a 'human library' of volunteer advisers helping places of worship respond positively to the challenges of environmental change an sustainability.
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Intergenerational Prayer Project

This project, undertaken by Revd Peter Babington, aims to explore the value of shared experience of learning methods of contemplative prayer as a medium for intergenerational learning.
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North Warwickshire and Hinckley College - faithtutorials.co.uk

This three-year project, undertaken by NWHC's chaplaincy team and funded by St Peter's Saltely Trust and Youth for Christ, aims to develop a free-to-download bank of flexible tutorial resources on a range of faith and ethical topics. Visit the resource bank at: (http://www.faithtutorials.co.uk).
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BREATHE Further Education Development Project

This two-year project, co-funded by Dare2Engage, the West Midlands Churches' Further Education Council, Central England Quakers and St Peter's Saltely Trust, aims to support colleges in enhancing their provision for the Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural development of students, focusing on Breathe, an interactive multimedia resource enabling students to explore questions of personal identity, beliefs and values. To book Breathe or discuss your college's SMSC development, contact project officer Andy Haynes at: andy@breatheresource.org.uk .
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Coventry Church School Leadership Programme

This two-year project, co-funded by the Jerusalem Trust, Coventry Diocesan Board of Education and St Peter’s Saltley Trust, aims to develop, pilot and evaluate a year-long programme for those who are, or are intending to, take up headships of Church of England schools.  This pioneering project – believed to be the first of its size and scope within the Church of England - is intended to complement the existing National Professional Qualification for Headship (NPQH) by focusing on the personal, spiritual and ethical dimensions of headship of a church school, around the themes of ‘self, context and task’.  For more information contact programme leader Alison Farnell.
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What Difference does A-Level Religious Studies Make?

This two-year project, co-funded by St Peter's Saltley Trust and the St Gabriel's Trust, aims to explore the impact of studying Religious Studies at A-Level on students' beliefs, values and worldviews. Does RS confirm or challenge students' existing faith or belief systems? Does it make students more or less likely to wish to understand others with different views? The project involves a major questionnaire survey of Religious Studies students and a smaller piece of interview based-research. [Click to download project flyer] 
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The Arthur Rank Centre - Rural Life and Faith Project

This three-year project aims to develop learning and training opportunities and resources for rural churches to equip and strengthen them in their life and ministry, building on the expertise of the Arthur Rank Centre in Stoneleigh, Warwickshire, the churches’ rural affairs centre.  Saltley Trust funding has contributed to year one of the project, which has mapped current learning and training needs and resources used.  For more information contact project officer Simon Martin.
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Diocese of Worcester Further Education Development Project

A Trust-funded two-year project which ran between 2008 and 2010, to audit the place of faith and spirituality in the ten further education colleges within the area covered by the diocese, explore creative partnerships between colleges, churches and faith communities, and work with colleges to develop activities and resources which foster spiritual development within a college context.
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Spirited Poetry and RE Through Music

Developed by the National Association of Teachers of Religious Education (NATRE, formerly the PCfRE) in collaboration with the Saltley Trust, this national poetry competition encourages children to explore God, faith and life through the arts (http://www.natre.org.uk/spiritedarts). An online bank of resources and ideas for connecting RE and music can be found at: http://www.natre.org.uk/music.
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NIACE Faith Community Development Project

In 2009, St Peter’s Saltley Trust was contracted to recruit participants to the pilot of a new course in generic skills in faith community development, created by NIACE from a commission from the Department for Communities and Local Government.  A dozen Christian, Muslim and Sikh chaplains were recruited to the pilot course from across the West Midlands, and a brief evaluation of participants’ experiences was conducted. [Click to download project flyer] 
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Extending Discipleship; Exploring Vocation (EDEV)

A new initiative of the Methodist Church, EDEV enables people to explore Christian discipleship and personal calling in a way that is locally-rooted, connected to the wider church and open-ended (there is no set 'course' but rather a series of guided small group encounteres, experiences and study oppotunities).  Trust funding supported the evaluation of two EDEV pilot studies in the West Midlands region.  For more on EDEV in the West Midlands go to: http://www.sysiphus.org.uk/
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Transformative Theological Education for Ministerial Formation – The Faslane Project

An evaluation of an experiment in prophetic social action as part of ordination training, researched collaboratively by the Queens Foundation for Ecumenical Theological Education, Birmingham, and Saltley Trust.
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Faith Guides Training Project

An initiative of the Birmingham-based Faith Encounter Programme to devise and offer a Faith Guiding Course for places of worship in the city. Faith Guides offer quality guided tours of places of worship through which the city's faith communities are introduced and interpreted for school groups, faith literacy training courses, heritage trails and others. The course was developed in collaboration with University College Birmingham and the Institute of Tourist Guiding. Trust support involved co-funding and evaluating the course. http://www.faithencounter.org.uk
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Faith to Faith – Website Development

Faith to Faith is a Christian consultancy which aims to encourage engagement between Christians and those of other faiths. The forum is currently developing a new website with study materials. http://www.globalconnections.co.uk/faithtofaithresources
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‘Effective Partnership Working with the Faith Communities: Learning the Lessons’

Published in 2007, this handbook offers tools for faith communities and FE colleges to engage in collaborative work, and includes stories and experiences from those with experience in the field. Co-published by St. Peter's Saltley Trust, Regional Action West Midlands and the National Ecumenical Agency in Further Education (NEAFE). See our publications page.
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The West Midlands Churches’ Further Education Council

Promotes learning about, and partnership between, the Christian churches and the world of Further Education. The Council, a fully ecumenical body, was originally an initiative of the Saltley Trust’s first director, Maggie Keane. The Council has been involved in many pieces of development work connecting Christian faith and further education since 1987.
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‘Journeying with Christ into the Heart of God’

Programme and resources for spiritual reflection structured around the seasons of the Christian calendar, arising from the question: ‘what does it mean to be a disciple in times like these?’ and developed in partnership with an ecumenical team of experienced church leaders and educators. See our publications page.
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Development of a Black and Asian Theology programme at the Queens Foundation for Ecumenical Theological Education, Birmingham

Includes the funding of a research report into the ‘Theological Education and Training Needs of Black Majority Churches in the West Midlands’.
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Hereford Diocesan Anti-Slavery Exhibition

To mark the 200th Anniversary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act in Britain, this exhibition, part-funded by Saltley Trust, toured numerous locations in Herefordshire and South Shropshire forming the centrepiece for a series of local activities and exhibitions, many organised by local churches. http://www.hereford.anglican.org/pages/wod_antislavery_ties.html.
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Training materials on Faith and Work in Further Education

A consultative role in 'Welcome to Chaplaincy' - new training materials for chaplains and other people working in the FE sector, jointly published by fbfe and the LSC. Tools for theological reflection also available at: http://www.fbfe.org.uk.
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Exploring Spirituality through Rural Life and Experience

Resources for theological reflection and meditation drawn from consultations with local people in the Anglican Diocese of Hereford. Part-funded by and developed in partnership with the Saltley Trust. Findings from the project were published as ‘The Marches Chronicles’ (see our publications page).
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National Association of Standing Advisory Councils on Religious Education (SACREs)

The Trust has had a long relationship with the National Association of SACREs, which the Trust helped to establish. The Trust has worked with a number of SACREs over the years on the development and resourcing of collective worship and RE teaching programmes.  Most recently Trust funding assisted in the organisation of a joint conference between NASACRE and the Interfaith Network for the UK to explore good practice in working together.  See: http://www.nasacre.org.uk
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CREAM Project – (now ‘Living out Faith’)

A CD Resource for the Education, Affirmation and Mentoring of Black Children. Based on the work of Dr. Anthony Reddie, and co-funded by St. Peter’s Saltley Trust. See: http://www.livingoutfaith.org.uk.
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