Impact Report 2018

The Church Urban Fund sits at the fulcrum between Christian intent and social need. We are called to act with and for the most vulnerable in ways that respect their agency and ensures that we can have a voice in the public sphere that is relevant and positive.

We were founded in the aftermath of the controversial report, Faith in the City, commissioned under the auspices of the then Archbishop of Canterbury in the context of social and economic unrest of the 1980’s. Though much has changed for the better in the thirty or more years since then, what we are dealing with today feels all too familiar: division, uncertainty and instability - politically, economically and socially - which all invariably conspire to hurt the most disadvantaged most harshly.

CUF’s role feels as important now as it did then – perhaps more so – and the year we report on shows how CUF is rising to these contemporary challenges.