How might chaplaincy contribute to the lives of students and staff in a Further Education college? How could you be involved? Five short films commissioned by West Midlands Churches’ FE Council, and filmed in three local colleges, give you a…
Phil Metcalf is the West Midlands region’s Further Education Chaplaincy ambassador, a new collaboratively-funded three year role. Since Phil began the role in January 2018, there have been significant developments in promoting new FE chaplaincies. Phil is currently working with…
Ever felt a bit like Jonah? Perhaps you have felt called to do a challenging job – are you getting stuck in? Or running away? Do you sometimes feel swallowed up by the size of the task? Or maybe things…
We’re pleased to welcome Phil Metcalf as the new further education chaplaincy ambassador for the West Midlands region. This new role provides strategic support and development for the churches’ work with colleges of further education within the West Midlands region,…
West Midlands Churches’ Further Education Council supports colleges in their provision for students’ faith and spiritual/moral development, and supports the churches’ engagement with the FE sector. Started with Saltley Trust help in 1987, it undertakes a variety of project work….
Spiritual, moral, social and cultural development doesn’t stop when you leave school. This partnership project between WM Churches’ FE Council and Dare2Engage seeks to develop interactive learning resources for 16-19s, using themes and dispositions from the 2007 Birmingham Agreed Syllabus….
This three-year project, undertaken by NWHC’s chaplaincy team, funded by St Peter’s Saltley Trust and Youth for Christ, developed a free-to-download bank of flexible tutorial resources on a range of faith and ethical topic Each tutorial is structured in three…
This 2010-3 project aimed to support colleges to strengthen their provision for spiritual, moral, social and cultural development, using the interactive ‘Breathe’ resource and other approaches. The project was developed by Dare2Engage and WM Churches’ FE Council. This project, which…
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…