St Bede's Community Project

The Church working with the community, seeking a better quality of life for all.

As a major part of our discipleship and desire to follow God faithfully, St Bede's is seeking to serve the community more faithfully. The chief way we are doing this is through our Community Project, which is a separate charity.

Process
During 2004 and 2005 we have begun engaging in a very exciting process. With help from JDN Consulting and Training, Snowgoose Training and Birmingham Citizens, we have carried out relation building conversations and interviews with most of the agencies who work in our parish and with a significant number of local residents.

Goals
From this we have established a number of goals which we are seeking to meet in partnership with other groups and people of good will.

These include
- bereavement services for children and young people
- facilities for children, young people and families
- improving access to information
- improving the neighbourhood
- housing quality

Partnership
Our working with Beyond the Horizon means that there is now a professional Bereavement Counselling service in Brandwood, based at St Bede's (email jeanette@beyondthehorizon.org.uk to use this service).

During the past few months we have been working in close partnership with children and staff from Woodthorpe Primary School. As a result of this work we will soon be seeing more litter bins and more spring bulbs in the area. The security fencing at the school is being improved and we are agitating for more detached youth workers in Brandwood.

As part of our Community Project's work, St Bede's is a member of Birmingham Citizens, a broad based community organization of churches, mosques, unions and schools, taking effective action together to create positive change in our local communities.

Please contact us for more information about St Bede's Community Project