Working in deprived communities is no easy task. Whether you are a volunteer or it is part of your job the work is demanding and can be stressful. Many people feel isolated and not fully supported.
You are not alone - Church Urban Fund is here to help.
We work together with Christians and churches tackling poverty in England. Below are list of resources, case studies, events and funding to support you in your work
Resources
- CUF On-line Training (free 5 day trial)
- Keeping the Faith - Retaining Christian Distinctiveness in Your Project
- Just Employment
- Ready-to-Go projects
- Faithfully Volunteering
- Greening your Project
- Monitoring and Evaluation tools
- List of all resources
Case studies
- Mentoring Young Men and Fathers
- Getting prisoners/ex-offenders on the right track
- Church responses to homelessness
- Community Centre 'Come Dine with Me'
- Urban Mission - a church plant four years on
- Research
- List of all case studies

Funding
Tackling Poverty newsletter
- Sign up for Tackling Poverty - get monthly resource and funding updates (previously known as Xchange)
- See past editions
Themes
Church Urban Fund's film about Christian community hero in Liverpool wins Jerusalem Award: watch the winning film
- Ready-to-go projects
- About
- Act
- Resources for churches
- CUF funding
- CUF Academy
- Blogs
- Events
- Working together
- Index of themes
- Faithfully Volunteering
- Just Employment
- Funding opportunities
- Ready-to-Go Projects
- Useful websites
- Case Study - Working with the Isolated Elderly
- Greening Your Community Project
- Project Development workshop
- Project Reflection workshop
- Community Value toolkit
- Job Clubs in Churches
- Church Urban Fund logos
- Southwark IMD scores
- Sign up for resources
- Tackling Poverty conference 2012
- eNews
- Pray
- Give
- Together Network


