Faithful Cities: A call for celebration, vision and justice is published jointly by Methodist Publishing House and Church House Publishing, price £9.99, and is available from bookshops or from Church House Bookshop, 31 Great Smith Street, London SW1P 3BN, tel. 020-7898 1300, e mail bookshop@c-of-e.org.uk, or on the web at: www.chbookshop.co.uk (mail order available) or from Methodist Bookshop, Methodist Church House, 25 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5JR, tel. 020-7467 5106, e mail heathp@methodistchurch.org.uk or on the web at www.mph.org.uk
To download a copy of the Report or its Summary please use the following links.
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Resources for Using the Report
Alongside the above report, a range of resources have been produced to help you look at the report and consider its impact where you live.
The following powerpoint presentations are designed to be used or can be adapted for use with the resource mentioned above
Toolkit
The Churches Community Value Toolkit has been developed by the Church Urban Fund, the Commission on Urban Life and Faith, and the Churches Regional Commission for Yorkshire and the Humber. The Toolkit is a way for churches to show what they contribute to their community in terms of outputs and outcomes. In particular, there are calculations that can demonstrate the financial contribution of a church and ways to identify a church's distinctiveness. The Toolkit is there to be used as people see fit perhaps in support of a grant application or in negotiations with others such as the Local Authority, the Local Strategic Partnership, or the Primary Care Trust. The Toolkit can also be used over a period of time to identify changes and developments. Different versions have been developed to reflect the different financial arrangements of different denominations. Currently the Church of England, Baptist and Methodist versions are available, with a Roman Catholic version to follow.
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Coming soon the Roman Catholic version of the Churches Community Value Toolkit
Download the Toolkit