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Young boy
The most important question to ask a young person
Jim Davis, Good Childhood Adviser, explains why it's important that children should have their views and opinions heard.
25 July 2011
Jim Davis, Good Childhood Adviser
Church team
young girl smiling
Where does true wealth lie?
Jesus chose to be poor so that we might be rich. In our context, where we are so encouraged to aspire to financial wealth this can be deeply challenging.
21 December 2012
Jim Davis, Good Childhood Adviser
Church team
Four young people holding Christingle candles
Sowing seeds
Christingle is one way that we can give generously and sow seeds, but there are many other ways of giving.
22 December 2012
Jim Davis, Good Childhood Adviser
Church team
Nigel Varndell standing at the peak of a mountain in Scotland
'Yes, I’ll climb Mount Kilimanjaro on my honeymoon'
Nigel Varndell, our Director of Church Partnerships, will spend his honeymoon climbing Kilimanjaro and raising funds for our work - please support his efforts
25 September 2012
Nigel Varndell, Director of Church Partnerships
Church team
young girl looking through window
Righteousness and equity
The characterisation of people living in poverty as lazy is deeply unbiblical.
19 December 2012
Nigel Varndell, Director of Church Partnerships
Church team
young girl looking through school gates
Change is hard
How willing are we to make changes that affect the core of our lives?
18 December 2012
Nigel Varndell, Director of Church Partnerships
Church team
Three lit candles against a black background
Crying out for justice
The third week of Advent focuses on John the Baptist, whose message of repentance may be as hard for us to hear today as it was for his first listeners.
16 December 2012
Nigel Varndell, Director of Church Partnerships
Church team
boy leaning against a fence
The challenge of forgiveness
In the end, a legalistic response to young people who do us harm will always be inadequate.
20 December 2012
Nigel Varndell, Director of Church Partnerships
Church team
Sophie Brightwell smiles at the camera
Mud, hail and flooding . . . a great weekend at the Greenbelt festival!
Following this year's Greenbelt, Sophie Brightwell writes about abundant mud, a home away from home and young people's illustrations of paradise.
31 August 2012
Sophie Brightwell, Church Partnerships Coordinator
Church team
Preparing for my 10k time-trial torture
He's good on a bike but for Henry Rowling running is a different matter, as he explains the aches he's enduring to support our work.
18 May 2012
Henry Rowling, Senior Direct Marketing Manager
Fundraising and events team

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What issues affect children and young people today? On our blog, our volunteers, staff, leaders and the young people we work with share their experiences and tackle the issues. Let us know what you think – leave a comment or send us a message about what you find on our blog.

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According to this our family (married, 4 children, dad has full time job, mum cares for children full time) has always hovered above or below the poverty line. RUBBISH! We are not poor. We have never gone cold or hungry.
Real poverty is being hungry and cold and having no essential medicine. UK poverty is not affording the latest electronic game, latest fashion and a new sofa.
By this calculator, "poverty" currently means a bigger income than what we are VERY comfortable on.

BBC news says that "POOR" children turn up to school hungry? Well, I have fed my 4 children very well around the "poverty line" - plenty of good healthy home cooked food, no convenience meals or junk. (the latter costs more than home made healthy food anyway)
"Cold chips in lunch box" means poverty? NO! Takeaway chips cost MORE than a pasta salad or brown bread and cheese sandwich. Hungry children in UK are not suffering poverty, they're suffering poor parenting. Training a generation to be prudent and wise is what's needed, not more breakfast clubs to further absolve parents of their responsibilities.

Use our new calculator to track the shifting poverty line

Great idea to map your run with the icons of London. Well done for finding the mental strength to run the VLM AGAIN, especially now you are an old man!

Mapping my route as I prepare for the London Marathon

Well done Joe, all in a good cause and will be thinking about you on the day.

Mapping my route as I prepare for the London Marathon