Projects

Christmas can be a desperate time for homeless people. All the usual support facilities and opportunities go into shut-down mode. It's the one day in the year when even the supermarkets close. The Charnwood Christmas Shelter meets a very necessary need over the period, and we are glad to support it financially.

Rothley Parish Church is part of the Anglican Diocese of Leicester. The diocese shares a common purse, and our financial contribution helps to ensure that in every part of Leicestershire there is a Church parish presence with clergy, other staff and volunteers who care for the spiritual health of each place.

By a link arrangement, the Diocese of Leicester supports, encourages and benefits from sharing with the Diocese of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, as well as similar links in South India.

Some of our annual £9,000 tithe goes to Kilimanjaro.

Without Seafarers the shelves in our supermarkets would be almost empty. 90% of the world’s trade goes by sea. The men who man these ships are often far from home when they reach port, often having to face sadness and hardship without effective support. The Mission puts over 100 full- time staff into port centres around the world, and over 200 honorary chaplains in 200 others. As well as financial support, we round up bags of much sought after jumpers and balaclavas each year and go visit a port centre with them.

We send funds each year to the Y Advice and Support Centre, a direct access day centre in Leicester for the homeless, roughsleepers, hostel dwellers and the vulnerably housed. We also beaver away at collecting food and clothing for this very important charity operation run by the Young Mens' Christian Association.

With over a million members in 70 countries around the world, the Mothers' Union is much more than a local meeting of concerned women. Its agenda is shaped by a real and intelligent concern for the health of families, both at the level of lobbying Parliament for improved conditions of family life, and of particular projects that really make a difference. In September 2002 a local party travelled to our partner diocese in Tanzania to bring funds and practical encouragement to their fellow members working to raise standards in that country. We are glad to include the Mothers' Union in our project funding. The monthly meetings here in Rothley are open to interested women, and engage in topics of local & wider significance.

Contact Hazel Banks 0116 237 6832

The Church Pastoral Aid Society is a splendid national resource that undergirds the work of the Christian Church in Britain. CPAS researches and publishes the teaching materials we use in our local work with children, and runs adventurous summer camps for older children and teenagers, as well as much else.

Crosslinks provides an avenue for Christians to work in other cultural settings. Our financial contributions help Rob & Tricia MacCurrach to be based in Novi Sad, Serbia, where they are helping to sustain and develop a Christian Theological College. This is nation-building stuff too, after the desperate times this part of the world has endured in recent years.

A regular proportion of the income of Rothley Parish Church is set aside each year to support projects both at home and overseas. Here are examples of the projects to which over£9,000 was put to work in 2007