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Look up child

Self-Reliant Groups facilitator Laura Walton focuses on the importance of mindfulness in the last few weeks of lockdown Mindfulness is all about appreciating the moment and doing what it takes to stay in the moment. We learn to hold back

The Final Push

Self-Reliant Group facilitator, Laura Walton, prepares for the final stretch of lockdown As the runners round that final bend, there is always an expectation that one or more of the lean mean machines flashing lycra and sticky plasters strapping their

Sheffield Church Action on Poverty Update, March 2021

The newsletter of our local group in Sheffield Find out more about Church Action on Poverty Sheffield here. Download resource Annual reviews Annual review 2019–20 Download our annual review and accounts Download annual review Annual reviews Annual review 2019–20 Read

International Women’s Day – Sheroes

Self-Reliant Group Facilitator, Laura Walton, gives thanks for all the women who inspire and support us We were blessed this week in Brews on Thursday as people shared who were the women in their lives who had inspired them. Women

Right-wing and Left-wing Christian Approaches to Poverty

Nick Jowett, a member of Church on Action on Poverty in Sheffield, writes on differing Christian approaches to tackling poverty. It would be right to assume that all Christians are equally concerned about issues of poverty and inequality in society.

Speaking of poverty, differently

The UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, Olivier De Schutter’s video outlines his new mandate on ways of tackling poverty. The UN Special Rapporteur’s mandate argues that poverty has often been pictured as attributable to the individual,