CURBS Spring Newsletter

CURBS Newsletter

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Welcome to our new look CURBS Newsletter! This newsletter goes hand in hand with the launch of our shiny new website. Please feel free to take a look here: www.curbsproject.org.uk.

New CURBS Administrator

We're really pleased to welcome a brand new administrator to the CURBS team. Rowena Wilding joins us two days a week to help us sprinkle some fairy dust all over what we do here and make it fly.

Rowena has been working with our good friends at Urban Expression for the past 4 years, and also moonlights as Communications Manager for YMCA in the Black Country.

Rowena is married to Andrew and has two small children. She loves trips to the theatre, chocolate cake and David Dimbleby.

Through Their Eyes

At the end of last year we ran our first training module in partnership with Crucible Course.

Come and experience an informal, conversational learning opportunity. As a participant you can expect to explore together what re-imagining children and families might look like where you are.

An exploration of what it means to be a child made in God’s image and how that shapes us growing together, understanding each other and living life in community.

Including the following topics:

Made in God’s image
Starting in their world
Spirituality
Celebrating urban diversity
Cementing in the building blocks.

Suitable for anyone interested in exploring fresh ways of engaging in children and families work.

Date: 12th – 13th November 2016
Venue: IMC, Weoley Park Road, Birmingham, B29 6QX
Cost: £93
Booking: www.cruciblecourse.org.uk

CURBS Crucible Course Webinar

Following on from our first ever Crucible Course module "Through Their Eyes", Sara is going to be delivering a webinar in conjunction with Crucible Course.

There is no charge for these webinars, and you do not need to sign up in advance. To access these webinars, go to http://www.brethren.org/webcasts/ There will be a link box to click on, posted at the bottom of the webinar description, that will direct you to the webinar room. If you join live, you can contribute to the webinar and converse with Sara, or you can watch back afterwards.

‘What have the children ever done for us?’ - Thursday 20 April, 7.30pm

So often we look at children as those we need to teach. What if we saw that building relationship was mutually beneficial? How would that affect church, life, and community? Can we grow intergenerational communities that enable all to flourish? Jesus said ‘the kingdom belongs to such as these.’ In what ways can we hold space for children in and out of the church to build friendship, community and relationship with God?

This webinar is part of a series being run by Crucible Course. You can catch up on previous episodes below:

‘Post-Everything?’ Stuart Murray-Williams:
http://brethren.adobeconnect.com/p80yedpa6yq/

‘Augmented Margins’ Juliet Kilpin:
http://brethren.adobeconnect.com/p3kdpdag1wl/

CURBS Resources

At the heart of our organisation, we still believe that the most important thing we can do is support excellent children's work in urban contexts. We do this by providing training, by facilitating hubs where children's workers can come together and share, and by offering tried and tested resources for children's workers to use and adapt in their own settings.

We're really excited to announce that we'll be releasing a brand new resource for children's workers very soon, which can be used as a transition material for children moving from primary to secondary school. Watch this space for news!

CURBS Hubs

A CURBS Hub Community is the gathering together of children’s workers both paid and unpaid, from full time to once a month Sunday school worker. It is an opportunity to share our best practices, our frustrations, our joys and our training needs.

What we hope at CURBS is that we will hear not only your training needs but also what resources are needed and what areas of connection are there in our frustrations.

We currently have a Hub in Solent and a Hub in Bristol. We are looking to help facilitate a Hub in the Midlands and a Hub in the North West over the coming months. If you are children's worker of any description in these areas (or any other), and you think you would benefit from the support of a group like this, please do get in touch - we'd love to hear from you.

Sara is always happy to facilitate conversations between children's workers, and we can offer resources to people who would like to start a Hub in their area. You can contact us at info@curbsproject.org.uk.

That's all for now!

The CURBS Team