‘Rural Life and Faith’ was a major project of the Arthur Rank Centre to develop training and resources to support discipleship, ministry and mission in rural churches. Trust funding enabled initial research into barriers to learning and training. Case Study…
This three-year project part-funded by the Trust employed a youth development worker to grow gifts, skills and confidence in youth work amongst volunteers from local churches in Birmingham’s Warley deanery. Warley Church of England Deanery covers 11 parishes on the border…
In 2009, St Peter’s Saltley Trust helped recruit participants to the pilot of a Certificate in Faith Community Development. A dozen Christian, Muslim and Sikh chaplains were recruited to the pilot course, devised by NIACE on behalf of DCLG. In…
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.
The Methodist Church’s EDEV programme aimed to enable exploration of Christian discipleship and personal calling in ways that were locally-rooted, connected to the wider church but also open-ended. Trust funding supported evaluation of EDEV pilot programmes in the West Midlands….
In 2008 the Trust undertook research into the learning and training needs of inner urban churches for Birmingham Churches Together Training, involving interviews with local church leaders and denominational representatives. In 2008 St Peter’s Saltley Trust was commissioned by Birmingham…
Faith Guides are volunteer/staff tour guides in places of worship across the West Midlands, training on a programme devised jointly by the Faith Encounter Programme and the Institute of Tourist Guiding. The Trust supported the evaluation of the inaugural course….