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Thank you for your interest in the Creative English Innovation Fund.  You still have just over two weeks to apply for the fund, but in order to help you with your application we have put together a list of the frequently asked questions: I am […]

Mental health is in the headlines this week – sadly for all the wrong reasons. However, the fact that people are talking about issues such as depression is, in itself, a good thing. Mental health issues are extremely common, and thought to affect one in […]

Baroness Warsi’s resignation today has shocked a number of people around the country… however, I am not surprised. I currently follow Baroness Warsi on Twitter (@SayeedaWarsi) and she has been open and outspoken about the need for policy and action in Gaza.  She has never […]

Pete English is CEO of the youth charity This Way Up, which supports young people affected by family breakdown, bereavement and any kind of loss, as well as training churches to use its Lost & Found small group course material. Further information can be found […]

This morning, on Radio 4, a report was broadcast on the schemes that have been set up for the elderly by local residents (often by those who are over 60 themselves) to help reduce the social isolation. Garforth Neighbourhood Elders Team in Leeds was one […]

Taking Creative liberties! I thought I’d share some tweaks I’ve made with a couple of Session Plans for Creative English. The beauty of this programme is that it contains 38 pre-prepared, highly relevant Session Plans for all our Hubs to make use of.  We have […]

Do you ever find yourself shouting at the TV? I find that ‘Question Time’ makes me do this, or would do if I wasn’t watching in bed and trying not to disturb the rest of the house. Maybe we don’t do it so much now […]

A Question of Balance, Bed Bugs and Bengali (For those who are of the ‘Baby Boomer’ era, you may remember a rock group called The Moody Blues?  Hence the reference to one of their most successful albums during the early ‘70s!  For those who haven’t […]

This week, I found myself using a phrase that Daniel Singleton often uses… and it has never hit me so hard about what it means. Daniel Singleton often says that faith communities are there to help the widow and the orphan – those that are […]

“Rape is a perpetual evil of war but it is used as a weapon of war to demoralise an enemy…” The quote above is from an Evening Standard article this week. As you might be aware, a Global Summit on the prevention of sexual violence […]