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Churches In Action   Believing in Local Action   Day in the Life   Projects in Crisis: A Learning Experience   Effectiveness & Impact   Faith Representatives   Public Attitudes to Poverty survey   Mustard Seed Effect   Faith, Hope & Participation   Building on faith   Challenging Communities   Deanery Audits   Diocese of Southwark IMD Scores

Churches in Action draws out nine cross-cutting themes from six case studies of projects supported by Church Urban Fund.

Based on research carried out for CUF by Coventry University's Applied Research Centre in Sustainable Regeneration (SURGE), the report shows how the Christian faith imperative to live out the Gospel has inspired projects to reach out to the hardest to reach in communities across England, bringing lasting change.

In his introduction to the report, Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, writes: "this is not a piece of research about the complexity of modern life.  It is research which reveals how simple it can be to offer people a fresh start, to open the way to healing and renewal, new friendships and new possibilities.  No magic wands here, but a testimony to human worth - how it gets lost, but also how it can be rediscovered and regenerated."

Download the full report (PDF document, 42 pages, 5.6 MB)