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A church-based community service set up to distribute surplus food during the pandemic has just served up its 5,000th parcel.
Since the first lockdown began last March, Waste Not Want Not, based at Buxton United Reformed Church (URC), has given away thousands of pounds worth of food to the local community, some of which would have ended up in landfill.
The project is led by church member Cath Sterndale and her son Dan who first came up with the idea four years ago.
The deadline to enter the United Reformed Church (URC’s) 2021 Community Project Awards is fast approaching.
Run by the URC in collaboration with Congregational, one of the UK's leading church insurance providers, the awards recognise innovative community projects that have a positive effect on local communities.
To provide a way to learn, contribute, as well as equip young people and adults involved with the United Reformed Church (URC) in as many ways as possible, URC Youth is launching Youth re-ASSEMBLED.
Each month throughout the year, URC Youth will focus on a different theme or topic.
The United Reformed Church (URC) Equalities Committee issues this statement in advance of when the Covid-19 lockdown restrictions begin to ease:
The Equalities Committee is mindful that the Covid-19 pandemic has changed the way the URC, its committees and churches work. It celebrates the way in which virtual meetings have facilitated participation by people who are unable to travel.
However, the Committee recognises that new ways of working, while they provide new ways of participation for some, mean that others are excluded.
Church leaders from across denominations, including the Revd Claire Downing, Moderator of the United Reformed Church General Assembly, have written an open-letter to the Home Secretary about housing for people seeking asylum.
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