Support and advice for issues of social responsibility and social justice.

God's story is Good News for all of us. Jesus comes because we need to be sustained and nurtured by the power of this story.

Social justice in Wakefield Diocese is about connecting with God's story. At the heart of this Good News story we discover justice, acceptance, love and truth breaking out into our communities and lives.

Here are some of the things we can do, working together with you in God's world and with that story. Downloadable resource and advice sheets are available from here.

The Social Responsibility team offers:

• Worship resources for many of the special Sundays throughout the Church's year
• Harvest Festival material
• Racial Justice material
• Ministering to the older person
• Help for the homeless in Wakefield
• Parenting Courses
• Examples of good social responsibility practice from across the country
• Access through our partnerships with all our local authorities into a wide spectrum of disciplines
• Fifteen years of spectacular funding success and acquired expertise
• Small funding packages to get your larger projects started
• Help in providing job descriptions and management services advice
• Advice on the right legal status for projects
• Short courses for those wishing to explore an issue at a deeper level
• Material for Study Groups
• Audit material to help you run a Disability check-up on your buildings and practices
• An emergency plan for the churches faced with a major disaster
• Training for laity and clergy on a whole range of issues
• Justice and Peace advice and resources
• Environmental advice and resources
• Order and Law material
• A help directory of contacts of organisations
• Access to regional and national church networks
• International Affairs advice and resources
• Access to Church Urban Fund resources
• Drugs education and advice
• Access to all Voluntary Actions in the Diocese
• Access to the training programmes of Voluntary Actions
• Help to former coalfield areas
• Support for those who live and work on outer estates
• ...and much much more besides.

Remember, if it's not on the list then just ask!

Contact:
Church House
1 South Parade
Wakefield
WF1 1LP
01924 371802

Contact

Contact is a regular newsletter from the diocesan Social Responsibility office, with ideas, resources and information.
Summer 2006 issue (large download - pdf 1.93mb)
Winter 2006 issue (pdf 343kb)
Summer 2005 issue (pdf 2150kb)
Spring 2004 issue (pdf 2004k)
Winter 2004 issue (pdf 2075k)
Winter 2003 issue (pdf 179k)

Downloadable resource sheets:

Alcohol - advice (pdf 12kb)
A place of refuge - a positive approach to asylum seekers and refugees in the UK (external link pdf 223kb)
Asylum seekers - advice (pdf 12kb)
Asylum applications - a briefing paper for ministers called to give evidence in support of asylum applications, produced by the Methodist Church (external link)
Asylum Seekers and Travellers: welcoming transient communities - a briefing paper produced by the Churches Regional Commission for Yorkshire and Humber (external link)
Bereavement - advice (pdf 10kb)
Drugs - advice (pdf 15kb)
Families and parenting - advice (pdf 19kb)
Family and Social Welfare Council (pdf 104kb)
Gambling - advice (pdf 9kb)
Gay and lesbian - advice (pdf 11kb)
HIV and AIDS - advice (pdf 14kb)
Housing and homelessness - advice (pdf 14kb)
Marriage and divorce - advice (pdf 12kb)
Mental health - advice (pdf 11kb)
Missing persons - advice (pdf 12kb)
Promoting a Safe Church - Policy for safeguarding adults in the Church of England 2006 (external link pdf 312kb)
Protecting All God's Children: House of Bishops Report 2004 (external link pdf 175kb)
Responding to Domestic Abuse: Guidelines for those with pastoral responsibility 2006 (external link pdf 459kb)
Sexual abuse - advice (pdf 14kb)
Strangers into friends - a resource to help churches in Wakefield offer support to asylum seekers and refugees (pdf 689kb)