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The United Reformed Church has produced a series of free guides with advice for churches and church organisations to help them stay in contact with and support their local community during and after lockdown.
The guides include advice for post-lockdown recovery plans and help with setting up and running social media accounts and using technology to communicate with the outside world.
You can download all the guides as PDFs here or scroll down the page to get the information online in a more accessible format.
A free guide from the United Reformed Church to help you take great photos in church.
Visual storytelling is incredibly important on social media, as people process images 60,000 times faster than words. Therefore it’s crucial that you take the best photos you can and make the most out of what you have.
This guide outlines a few things to think about when taking photos in a church or a building of worship.
A free guide to help you write for the web and maximise the reach of your online content by improving your Search Engine Optimisation (SEO).
A free guide to help you livestream your church service.
Live streaming is the broadcasting of real-time video and audio to an audience over the internet, this can be done on a variety of platforms from a number of devices.
A free guide to Covid-19 and safeguarding for churches and church organisations.
During the pandemic, the pressures placed upon local churches have risen significantly and this has led to an increase in the need to protect people from different forms of harm and abuse.
Here is a quick guide to what you can do to offer support whilst continuing to serve the needs of your communities.
A free guide to help churches and church organisations follow the URC's visual identity.
Why are style guides important? They ensure brand consistency throughout any materials you produce – no matter who created it.
How much time does it take to explain to a designer how much space you need around your logo at all times? And how they’re not supposed to change any of the colours? What about finding every font you use and having to relay that to them as well? Not to mention explaining the type of imagery that is acceptable. This guide helps answer some of those questions.
This visual identity guide contains the necessary information to create whatever your church needs. Whether it be a poster, church newsletter, website, or other materials.
