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Finding the Treasure: Exploring Asset Based Community Development

A day for those who are new to the concept of ABCD as well as for more experienced practitioners. Hosted by Hodge Hill Church, Birmingham.

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Finding the Treasure: Exploring Asset Based Community Development

Hodge Hill Church, Birmingham, 15 May 2026, 10am-4pm

Hear from nationally renowned experts and practitioners of ABCD. Make new connections, be inspired, discover useful resources and explore some of the harder questions related to doing ABCD as part of the church’s mission.

Asset Based Community Development is an approach to sustainable community-driven development. At a time when local churches are feeling the pressures of being part of a world that feels increasingly polarised, fragmented and fearful, what might it mean to shift from a mindset of scarcity to one of abundance? ABCD is a call to that mindset shift; finding the treasure in our local neighbourhoods in ways that can nurture flourishing communities, and transform the local church’s engagement in the mission of God.

The day will be hosted by Revd Al Barrett and Hodge Hill Church with Church Urban Fund.

Programme

More details of the programme and contributors coming soon.

  • 10am: Arrivals and 'Place of Welcome' (refreshments & conversations).
  • Morning session: Exploring ABCD with Revd Al Barrett and others
  • Lunch
  • Afternoon session: Workshops
  • Plenary
  • 4pm: Finish

Workshop examples

Please indicate your workshop choices on the booking form.

  • Start with connecting: ABCD in practice
  • Community-building with (and by) young people
  • ‘But I need data!’: Evaluating ABCD projects
  • Making meetings matter: how to host life-giving (not life-sapping!) conversations
  • An (eco-)spirituality for community-building in a world falling apart

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