Dear Friends,
Dear Friends,
Last week George Osborne presented his Autumn Statement to the House of Commons. Yet again he promised further cuts to local government, health and welfare, and to solve the housing crisis by inflating the property market.
The effect of the Chancellor’s plans after five years of cruel austerity, is to create a country where too many are struggling to put food on the table and live in a decent home.
Ekklesia is a think tank committed to promoting ideas that create a better society – one which has room for everybody. In the year ahead, we plan to do this by:
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Publishing our research on the work capability assessment
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Producing a book on Christian responses to the UK housing need.
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Promoting the rights of refugees and migrants
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Continuing to work for peace through promotion of alternatives to Remembrance and developing peace chaplaincies
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Running events on housing, welfare and sexuality
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Challenging the churches to make the oikoumene, “the whole inhabited earth” the focus of their mission.
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To run the Ekklesia office costs us £85,000/ year, less than half of which comes from grant funding. Your donation can make a real difference to us and this year we urgently need your help to keep going. We have set ourselves an ambitious fundraising target of £5,000 this Christmas so that we can carry out this work.
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- A £10 donation pays for a week’s phone bills, or a month’s worth of stationery.
- £20 covers a week’s web maintenance
- £50 will help fund the refreshments for an event.
- £100 pays for speaker’s costs
- £250 will contribute to the printing of a report
- £500 will pay for half a year’s website maintenance, or quarter of a researcher’s fees.
- We are very appreciative of your support, which is absolutely vital to keep the work of Ekklesia going.
You can help the work of Ekklesia in by sending a donation, marked “annual appeal” to Ekklesia, Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, 235 Shaftesbury Avenue, or by donating via our PayPal account .
Many thanks
Jonathan Bartley (co-director), Simon Barrow (co-director), Henrietta Cullinan (administrator), Virginia Moffatt (chief operating officer)
Your Ekklesia Team