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Selected Autumn events diary

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• Welsh Churches Homelessness Conference, Newport, Wednesday 15th September
• Home, Homelessness and Community, Turvey Abbey, Friday 24^th September
• New Mentoring and Befriending Forum 21st September
• Churches, Housing, Rural Communities Wednesday 13^th October
• Housing Justice AGM Thursday 18^th November
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Welsh Churches Homelessness Conference Newport 15th September

This conference in Newport aims to bring together people from churches and other organisations involved in action and advocacy on behalf of people who are homeless and in housing need.
Workshops and plenary sessions will help us to look at current issues, share learning and insights, and examine the role of faith in practical social action.

Who is the conference for?
All with a concern about housing and homelessness in Wales, especially

• Church representatives, at all levels
• People working in housing or homelessness, from housing associations, local authorities, hostels, day centres or outreach providers

Invited Speakers

• Jocelyn Davies, Deputy Minister for Housing and Regeneration
• Aled Edwards OBE, Chief Executive of Cytun
• John Puzey, Shelter Cymru
• Alastair Murray, Housing Justice (Chair)

Practical Details
Church address 40 Stow Hill, Newport NP20 1JG
Date Wednesday 15th September 2010
Time 10:30 – 4:00 (Registration opens at 10:00)

Download flier and booking form from the HJ website here>>

Home, Homelessness and Community
Turvey Abbey 

Friday 24^th September

This workshop is part of an ongoing inquiry into the meaning of 'home and community' through in-depth consideration of the experience and the meaning of homelessness and ‘unhoused’ states of mind. 

We begin by considering the difficulties of working with hard-to-reach homeless persons whose membership of society is defined by their placing of themselves in liminal spaces that are neither in nor out. This will be followed by discussion and exploration of the meaning, and our experience, of ‘community’ and its potential contribution to personal, social and spiritual health as well as a consideration of the pain caused when communities become corrupted, divided, damaged or fail.

The day will be chaired by Dr Jo-anne Carlyle, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Psychotherapist and Organisational Consultant and will comprise a combination of talks, small discussion groups, an experiential exercise and a large group plenary. 

Presentations will be:-

• John Adlam, Principal Adult Psychotherapist, Springfield Hospital will speak on ‘Disturbances of Groupishness: the unhoused mind and the unhomely society
• Br. John Mayhead, Benedictine Monk, Turvey Abbey will speak on ‘The stable life: living in a monastic community
• Christopher Scanlon, Consultant Psychotherapist and Organisational Consultant will speak on ‘Accommodating un-housed minds: re-membering the dismembered?

Dr Jo-anne Carlyle, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Psychotherapist and Organisational Consultant will chair the day and convene the Large Group

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New Housing Justice Mentoring and Befriending Forum 21st September

• Do you volunteer in an existing mentoring or befriending scheme?  Would you like to share your experience with others who want to do something similar?
• Would you like to extend mentoring or befriending to your winter shelter, soup run, drop-in centre, or other project offers to homeless or newly housed people?
• Are you interested in networking with others and hearing about the way they work?
• Would a London homelessness befriending network be useful? 

If so, Housing Justice invites you to a free evening forum on “Mentoring & Befriending”

There will be short presentations from Caroline Ewart of Spear and Shona Macpherson of Housing Justice followed by discussion.

Date Tuesday 21st September

Time  6.30pm – 8.30pm

Venue Housing Justice. 1st Floor, Royal London House. 22-25 Finsbury Square. London. EC2A 1DX

Nearest Tube Moorgate

Please rsvp to info@housingjustice.org.uk

Churches, Housing, Rural Communities Conference 13^th October

Exploring the use of faith buildings and land for affordable housing and sustainable communities 
Penrith Methodist Church

Organised by 
Housing Justice, Churches Trust for Cumbria, Cumbria Rural Housing Trust, Quaker Housing Trust

Aims of the event
To celebrate and share existing good practice of creating affordable housing and community uses in churches and, on church-owned land in Cumbria and further afield.

To explore the challenges faced in increasing these developments in faith buildings within the current context of the Government’s agenda for ‘Big Society’  and localism, policy changes and budget cuts.

Who should attend?
Anyone looking to create and maintain vibrant rural communities and particularly those working in:

• Church Communities:  vicars, ministers, church wardens, trustees, PCC members.
• Rural Communities: parish councillors, local government workers, private developers.
• Rural Housing:  housing association managers, local government housing teams, planners, rural housing enablers.

Cost per delegate
£30 for funded individuals attending on behalf of their organisations
The conference is free to all unfunded individuals (church members and community activists)
Lunch and beverages provided.

Download flier and booking form from the HJ website here>>

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