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18 April 2024
Act on Poverty webinar: Meeting MPs and candidates
Thursday, April 18 · 7 - 8:30pm.
This online briefing and training session will help you plan and prepare to meet with Members of Parliament and Parliamentary candidates to discuss how to make UK and global poverty a priority ahead of the coming General Election.
Attend to gain practical tips and ideas for holding successful meetings in advance of the General Election that can make a real difference. Come together to create positive change in our communities and our world.
Act on Poverty is an initiative by Christian Aid, Baptists Together, URC, Church Action on Poverty, Methodist Church, Trussell Trust and SVP.
Please register for this Act on Poverty webinar via Eventbrite.
8 April 2024
The Nation Needs You!
A campaign to encourage election candidates to back the Climate & Nature Bill has been launched by Zero Hour.
The Climate & Nature Bill is a poposal for a new UK law that addresses the full extent of the climate and nature crisis in line with the most up-to-date science. For details on the bill, see the Zero Hour website.
Zero Hour is supported by the Climate Coalition (which includes CAFOD, Christian Aid, Church of England Environment Programme and the Salvation Army), A Rocha UK, Green Christian, Operation Noah and Faith for Climate.
To contact your own election candidates to back the Climate & Nature Bill see action.zerohour.uk.
8 April 2024
A Year of Encounter
CAFOD and St Vincent de Paul Society (SVP) have started a campaign to help the Catholic voice be heard in the next General Election, and to make sure politicians make tackling poverty a priority.
The two organisations are inviting parishes to reach out to their local candidates ahead of the next election, with the intention of "strengthening community participation as a local faith group, and practicing the culture of encounter that Pope Francis talks about".
For more details on A Year of Encounter, see the SVP website.
12 March 2024
Become a Voter Registration Champion
Citizens UK has launched a campaign to get 1 million ‘at risk’ voters ready to participate in this year’s general election. Six Church denominations, plus Churches Together in England (CTE), have become official Ambassadors to encourage churches to become Voter Registration Champions to get people to register to vote, educate about the need for Voter ID and encourage people to turn out to vote on the day.
Churches accredited as Ambassadors are the Baptist Union of Great Britain, Church of England, Church of Scotland, Methodist Church, Quakers in Britain and the United Reformed Church (URC).
Find out more and download an information pack from the Voter Registration Champions website .
12 March 2024
Joint Public Issues Team creates Constituency Action Network
A Constituency Action Network is being created by the Joint Public Issues Team (JPIT), with the goal of helping at least one local church congregation in every parliamentary constituency in England, Scotland and Wales to develop a meaningful relationship with their MP.
JPIT is currently running a pilot programme for a limited number of churches, and aims to launch the wider network during 2024
Please see the JPIT website for more details.
