Community

At a service of the Eucharist (Mass) on Sunday 5th September at 4pm Bishop Christopher, Assistant Bishop of Leicester, will rename St. Alban’s Church, ‘The Church of The Resurrection’ so that Parish and Parish Church share the same dedication. At the service, Bishop Christopher will also Baptise new Christians and Confirm those further along their faith journey. This is a big and joyful day in the life of the people of The Parish of The Resurrection who seek to develop their work of Christian service throughout the parish, amongst all peoples without distinction, and for whom their parish church is the ‘power house’ from which, in the growing company of Christians with whom they pray and worship, they move into and amongst the communities that make up the parish witnessing to the love of God by active care and compassion. For our developing Christian community this is a day and a celebration of ‘New Life’: a confirmation of our confident looking forward in faith!
 
This change will not affect our Community Centre which will remain ‘St. Alban’s Community Centre’.
 
All friends of the Parish and the Parish Church are welcome to join us for the celebration!

Event Date: Thursday 9th September

St Andrew’s Church, Old Church Street, Aylestone.
Please be seated at 7.15pm to record at 7.30pm.
Entrance free. Refreshments £2. Raffle

Further details 0116 2837050

Applications are now invited for grants from the W T Fry Bequest towards the education of children of the clergy, in the Leicester Diocese, at a British University/College for the academic year 2010/2011.

Applications must be returned by 13th September 2010.

Forms avilable from: Jill Benn at 1 Hill Top, Coventry CV1 5AB. Tel No. 024 76 521331.

E-mail: Jill.Benn@CovLec.org

A large number of historic church buildings  are under threat because they will soon lose the right to a special refund.

The refund, which allows historic churches and other places of worship to claim back the VAT on the cost of repairs and maintenance, is due to end in March 2011.

Unless pressure is brought to bear on the government to continue the VAT refund, we might see some of our most important community buildings close

for more  visit www.savetherefund.info

Please sign this online petition to continue the listed places of Worship grant scheme

http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/listed-places-of-worship.html

From Saturday 18^th September the church will be open every Saturday 2-4pm

Further details: Sue Hooper 0116 239 4606

The Hairy Bikers, Si King and Dave Myers are once again undertaking a nationwide search for Britain’s most cherished and treasured recipes for the second series of their programme ‘Mums Know Best’. Surely some of our Churches have wonderful cooks within their congregations, so let the BBC know.
You can get an application form by emailing the production team at mumsknowbest@bbc.co.uk or download one by visiting www.bbc.co.uk/mumsknowbest

Community Foundation Fund – open for applications. The Fund is provided and administered by the Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland (LLR) Community Foundation in partnership with East Midlands Development Agency (EMDA).
Funding is intended for larger projects that can improve and sustain the economic climate of an area and its way of life in Leicestershire, Rutland and Leicester.
Financial assistance up to £20,000 is available to voluntary and community organisations for projects that improve the local economy and way of life.

TNR Communications Charity Giveaway
You will have to be quick off the mark with this one as the deadline date is 16th April.
TNR Communications are giving away a combined PR photography package and videocall services worth £2,525 to a registered UK charity seeking media coverage for an event.

Further Details and other items of interest are available in the RCC Newsletter RCC Newsletter April 12

An information leaflet from the Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust

Bats and churches document

A non-commercial Christian based community radio station celebrating the true meaning of Easter for Hinckley and the Villages

Organised by volunteers and funded primarily by Hinckley churches, Vine FM aims to explain the true meaning of Easter with a mix of Christian and contemporary music, a variety of shows featuring local people and recordings of community events. Tune in for the ever popular ‘More tea, Vicar’ , ‘Breakfast with Bamberger’ and ‘Drivetime’ with Ben Williams. New this year is ‘Dessert Island discs’ with John Moore and a variety of people from the local community. Inspired by the BBC classic created by Roy Plomley, but renamed because it is ‘after lunch’!!!

http://www.vinefm.org.uk/

listen at vine fm on  87.7fm

• Year six of People’s Millions has now been launched, an exciting partnership between the Big Lottery Fund and ITV in which the public vote for which community project they want to receive funding of up to £50,000.
• Action for Communities in Rural England (ACRE) and the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) have worked collaboratively to produce a new guide for local parish and town councils entitled: Adapting to climate change: a guide for local councils.
• National Family Week aims to highlight the important role families play in society and encourage healthy active lifestyles and quality family time. Now in its second year, National Family Week is the largest coalition on family issues and is backed by all major political parties and a huge range of national charities, community groups and sporting associations.
• The Grassroots Grants programme offers small voluntary and community groups in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland the opportunity to apply and receive funding from £250 to £5000. Deadlines for the next round of
  applications are:
  Leicester City: 7th May 2010
  Leicestershire: 21st May 2010
• Organisers of this year’s Moira Canal Festival are looking for volunteers to help out at the weekend long event on 22nd and 23rd May.

More information about all of these is available in the RCC Newsletter for March22

‘The Community Star Awards’is an event that FOCUS’ Youth Action Team are organising to reward young people for the great volunteering work they do within and around Leicester city. It is being held at The National Space Centre and there are 6 award categories, including the prestigious ‘Leicester City Volunteer of the Year award’. 
 
To nominate your Volunteers for an award please fill in the attached form and tell us why your volunteer is one of the biggest stars in Leicester. Once you have submitted your nominations, our young people’s panel will deliberate on overall winners for each award , 2 runners up and 2 special considerations. If the nominee is successful in receiving one of these awards you and the nominee will be invited to attend the award ceremony on the 22nd April 2010 at the National Space Centre

Deadline for nominations is 2nd April – Community Star Nomination Form

FOCUS is a young people’s organisation and our vision is of ‘a society in which individuals feel inspired and empowered to have a positive impact in their communities’. We achieve this through providing personal development programmes for diverse groups of disadvantaged young people between 16 and 25 years old. We aim to build their confidence, self-esteem, interpersonal skills and sense of community belonging, so that they can believe in themselves and their abilities and make the most of their lives. FOCUS runs the Leicester City youth volunteering team, “Leicester vinvolved team.” Within this is the Youth Action Team (YAT), of which I am a member, and it is this team of young people that are organising this event. It is an event to praise and reward young people, organised by other young volunteers. It is this that we believe makes our award ceremony truly unique and your organisation could be a massive part of this amazing opportunity for young people to show that they can make a change to society and are proactive in doing so.

I look forward to reading your nomination forms, please do not hesitate to contact me or the Youth Volunteer Development Manager, Emily Godwin if you have any further questions.
 
Many thanks 
Rebecca Foster
On behalf of the FOCUS Youth Action Team
0116 2510369