Connecting: Mercy
Who can help my church serve the poorest and most vulnerable people in my community?
Click on the logos below to discover more about organisations and networks which exist to help you and your church demonstrate God's mercy and compassion to those who are on the margins of society.


Bethany Christian Trust
Works to give homeless people in Scotland a hope and a future, by providing care through street work, emergency accommodation, specialist units, supported housing, home furniture provision, community education and community integration.
For more information visit: Bethany Christian Trust


Caring for Ex offenders
Aims to break the cycle of crime and integrate ex-offenders successfully back into society through the local church. Works by providing ex-offenders with a person to meet them at the prison gate upon release, basic provisions, accommodation, work and pastoral support through integration into the life of the church.
For more information visit: Caring for Ex offenders


Christians Against Poverty
Offers hope and a solution to people in debt. CAP aims to show God’s love in action by providing sustainable poverty relief through debt counselling, advice and practical help.
For more information visit: Christians Against Poverty


Community Mission
Helping ordinary people transform their local communities by overcoming poverty, isolation, despair and bringing hope. Community Mission believes in faith in action and that a commitment to integral mission is at the heart of the gospel.
For more information visit: Community Mission


Enabling Christians Serving Refugees
Assists and equips Christians to express God's love in practical and informed ways to asylum seekers and refugees in the UK.
For more information visit: Enabling Christians Serving Refugees


Evangelical Coalition For Urban Mission
Resources to support working to further God's kingdom of loving justice, mercy and peace by seeking local and city-wide solutions to the social, economic and spiritual poverty found in urban areas, especially town/city centres, multi-cultural inner city areas and outer estates.
For more information visit: Evangelical Coalition For Urban Mission


Livability
Working with disabled people to achieve choice, independence and opportunity. Livability offers a wide range of innovative services to support and empower disabled people throughout their lives, as well as providing community organisations with the resources, advice and confidence to impact their neighbourhoods.
For more information visit: Livability


Parish Nursing Ministries
Maximising the wellbeing of society in community through the application of professional nursing skills, as well as mobilising the ordinary members of church communities.
For more information visit: Parish Nursing Ministries


Salvation Army
Demonstrates Christian principles through provision of social welfare, including homeless centres, drug rehabilitation centres, schools, hospitals and medical centres.
For more information visit: Salvation Army


Street Pastors
Responding to urban problems by engaging with people on the streets to care, listen and dialogue, often with remarkable results, including a drop in crime in areas where teams have been working.
For more information visit: Street Pastors


Tearfund
Empowering local churches around the world to work for justice, transform lives and overcome global poverty.
For more information visit: Tearfund
The Besom
The Besom helps people make a difference by providing a bridge between those who want to give time, money, things or skills and those who are in need.
For more information visit: The Besom


The Trussel Trust (Foodbanks)
Working to feed people in crisis across the UK through foodbanks, which provide boxes of nutritionally balanced food and support to people experiencing emotional or financial crisis.
For more information visit: The Trussel Trust (Foodbanks)


World Vision
Works to make a serious and sustainable impact on poverty and its causes, especially as they affect children.
For more information visit: World Vision
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