Employment Vacancies
King's Lynn Debt Centre: Centre Manager
King's Lynn Foodbank: Administrator
News
Foodbank's harvest list
Discovery Centre: Food for Thought
Energy Help
Volunteering Vacancies
King's Lynn Night Shelter
Events
Ecumenical service to commemorate Queen Elizabeth II at the Minster: 16th September
Churches Together AGM: 21st September
VIY King's Lynn: 13th - 30th September King's Lynn
Women's World Day of Prayer AGM: 1st October
Resources
CAP: Responding to UK poverty
CUF: Growing Good
Training
Making Volunteering Accessible to All: 27th September Dementia Friends Information Session: 21st September
Gambling Awareness: 12th October
Substance Awareness: 13th October
Funding
Norfolk Community Foundation Newsletter
Reports
Trussell Trust: Tackling the true cost of living
APPG: Keeping the Faith 2
Faith Action: Faith Covenant
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Centre Manager for King's Lynn Debt Centre
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King’s Lynn Debt Centre in association with CAP Christians Against Poverty
Debt Centre Manager
The new Manager will operate the well-established and successful Debt Centre which serves people who live in the town and surrounding area. The Debt Centre manager works by coming alongside those who find themselves in unmanageable debt. With expert support from staff at CAP, the Debt Centre offers solutions to clients for them to become financially secure.
The post is part time, initially for 16 hours per week. The salary £20,500 - £23,500 pro rata. Final appointment to the post would depend on selection by local interview and by the CAP national team.
Christians Against Poverty are on a mission to set people in our nation free from a life of debt, poverty, and their causes. All their services, including Debt Centres, Job Clubs, and Life Skills, are run through local churches. This means they can offer clients not only expert practical support, but companionship, hope and a chance to hear the Gospel.
King’s Lynn Debt Centre was established and is overseen by partner churches – King’s Lynn Evangelical Church, King’s Centre Church, The Church in the Woottons, and King’s Lynn Cornerstone Baptist Church.
Applicants will need to demonstrate:
- Clear and committed Christian faith and membership of a church
- Evidence of concern and commitment to the poor
- Willingness to support and promote the values of Christians Against Poverty.
Closing date 30th September 2022
For an application pack, and to register your interest in the post, please email James Nash james@churchinthewoottons.net
Registered Charity no. 1167702
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HARVEST FESTIVAL season is upon us!
Since King’s Lynn Foodbank opened its doors in 2011, we have been overwhelmed by your support and the community’s kindness and generosity. As you can imagine with the increased cost of living, we are seeing increased demand for our services – we’ve fed 35% more people during summer 2022 than last year.
With Harvest approaching we are asking you to consider, partnering with us by collecting non-perishable food or by taking up a monetary offering to help families with their increased energy costs. Our most needed items are:
• Tinned meat
• Tinned fish
• Dried noodles/pot noodles
• Small bottles of squash
• Tinned rice pudding
• Tinned fruit
• Shampoo & Conditioner
• Toilet Roll
• Small boxes of washing powder
Our energy voucher scheme has become increasingly crucial in recent months as the cost of living crisis affect more people. We’ve had 120% more requests for energy help between June-August 2022 than in the same months last year. People referred for this help can get either a £28 or a £49 voucher (depending on whether they have children in their household) which can then be paid directly onto their prepayment meter.
If you would like to donate money to our energy scheme, our bank account details are:
Account Name: KL Foodbank
Sort Code: 40-26-11
Account: 91808443
Reference: Fuel Harvest
Once again thank you for standing with us and supporting us over the last eleven years and especially through these uncertain times, without you we could not have provided for so many people.
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Free food sessions return
from 16th September
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Our Food for Thought sessions restart next week at the Discovery Centre in King’s Lynn. They take place every Friday (9.30 – 11.30) and are FREE to attend. They are designed to help people cook tasty and nutritious food on a budget. Each week is themed. People do not have to commit to attending every session. They are run in partnership with the College of West Anglia and Freebridge and funded by the East Coast Community Fund.
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Created before the most recent government announcement of the Energy Price Guarantee on 9th September.
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The County Council runs the Norfolk Assistance Scheme (NAS) to help those struggling with costs, and are particularly keen to help people over aged 65 and people who are disabled or carers. For more information about this scheme (who can apply, financial help with food and energy costs, help with white goods and furniture), go to:
For more information and money saving tips, updated daily, have a look on the Money Saving Expert website
https://www.moneysavingexpert.com
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On Thursday 6th October the King’s Lynn Night Shelter will open again to provide emergency accommodation to some of the most vulnerable people in our community. We are now recruiting for volunteers to help with this vital work.
Information and training evenings for new volunteers will be held at 7pm at St John’s Church in the Walks, next door to the Night Shelter, on Thursdays 15th and 22nd September, and on Tuesday 11thOctober. We ask all new volunteers and potential volunteers to come to one of these evenings: refreshments will be served and there will be a chance to chat with some of last year’s volunteer team and ask questions as well as covering the essentials of the role.
Volunteers offer as much or as little time as they are able, typically a morning, evening or night once a week or once a fortnight. Their roles include making a hot evening meal for our homeless guests, chatting with them, making breakfast, making beds: the Night Shelter staff work with our volunteers at all times to take responsibility for everyone’s safety and wellbeing.
Lucy McKitterick, Night Shelter Co-ordinator, said: “Many of our volunteers return year on year and tell us that their time at the Night Shelter is immensely rewarding. It is our volunteers who make the Night Shelter a “family home” for our guests, and the gift of their time and kindness makes a huge difference to our work. There are no special skills required but we do especially need night owls … so if you’re up for making a cup of tea and being a listening ear at midnight for someone in need, we’d definitely love to meet you!”
The Night Shelter opens this season from 6th October 2022 until 30th June 2023, and plans to open year-round as soon as funding makes this possible.
For more information see our new website www.klnightshelter.org.uk
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Ecumenical Service at Minster to commemorate the life of HM Queen Elizabeth II
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Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ
Warmest greetings. You, and your congregations, are warmly invited to an Ecumenical Service, with representation from our interfaith communities, at Kings Lynn Minster on Friday September 16th at 6pm to remember and commemorate the life of HM Queen Elizabeth II.
With peace and blessings
Karlene Kerr
Moderator, Churches Together in Kings Lynn
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Women's World Day of Prayer AGM
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I am the Branch Organiser of the King’s Lynn Branch of the Women's World Day of Prayer organisation and I and the Secretary/Treasurer, Margaret Shelton, have each been involved constantly for well over 30 years.
We have decided that it is time to step down after the service next year on 3rd March 2023. But, nevertheless, we are concerned for its future so we are trying to instigate an element of succession planning to ensure its' continuation. The national organisation celebrates 40 years of its existence in the UK next year, and it would be a great shame if the Town Centre Churches branch was to fold after such a lengthy and successful span.
I am urging each representative to canvas the priest/minister and the congregation in your individual churches to consider the situation and see if anyone can come up with ideas and suggestions as to how we can best take this forward, to ensure the continuance of the King’s Lynn Branch beyond 2023.
Our AGM will be held on:
Saturday, 1st October at 10.00am in The Minster, Saturday Market Place, King's Lynn. Refreshments will be provided on arrival, and the meeting will last about 2 hours.
Everyone is welcome to attend, or please feel free to pass on your thoughts, comments and ideas to be considered at the meeting, via my email - christine.a.james@btopenworld.com
or by phone on 01553 775535,
and mobile: 0786 407 9145.
Thank you for your attention and consideration. I look forward to receiving your input in due course.
With best wishes,
Christine James
Branch Organiser.
King's Lynn Branch 3101
WDP.
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Free resources have been launched to help churches respond to UK poverty. The resources focus on the cost of living crisis, encouraging churches to lament but also to listen to how God is calling us to respond and build a more hopeful future.
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We have produced a free resource pack to help churches give thanks and celebrate all the gifts in their communities this harvest time.
Including prayers, activity ideas for all ages and sermon notes, the resources reflect the Growing Good theme of participation – inviting everyone to be part of what’s going on.
All the resources are now available to download.
We hope you find the resources helpful as your church celebrates the gifts that are present in your congregation and community this harvest. As many individuals and families face a challenging and worrying time, now more than ever, we need communities of hope and support.
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Although some deadlines have past there is plenty of helpful funding news here.
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Food bank need has accelerated during the cost of living crisis. Evidence from our network of food banks shows how the cost of living crisis has impacted households on the lowest incomes.
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Going without: Deepening poverty in the UK
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The research, led by Professor Chris Baker of Goldsmiths, University of London, builds on 2020’s Keeping the Faith, looking at the extent to which COVID-19 has changed the nature of partnership working between faith groups and local authorities, and what this means for post-pandemic Britain.
Keeping the Faith 2.0 was launched in Westminster on Wednesday 7th September
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Faith Covenant - What, why, how?
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On Monday, we were excited to release The Faith Covenant: What, Why, How? a document developed by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Faith and Society, to help local authorities and faith groups looking to adopt a Faith Covenant in their area.
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