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CUF Xchange Voice aims to provide a platform for you share insights related to your involvement in faith-based social action projects. This includes:

  • Podcasts - Explore the issues in detail via stories, case studies and interviews with practitioners
  • Write and Upload - Write about the effective, distinctive work you do or the  obstacles you confront




Write your own article. 
Publish your article on the Xchange and get it connected to others interested in what you're doing.

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Use the Writers Guide to find Your style , get started or to find some handy hints and tips.
Research
About CUF Xchange Research
We collect the most useful and relevant social policy research available, to help inform and strengthen your project work and community involvement.

All the downloads are free.
  • We've clumped the research into the themes you're interested e.g. volunteering
  • Click on the relevant 'more' to access the detail and download waht you need
  • We've more on other pages - click on the page numbers at the base of the page
  • You can also find research via the right hand tag cloud - click on the area you're interested in
Church Urban Fund Project Survey  
  • Church Urban Fund Project Survey - Conducted across December 2006 and January 2007 by the University of Coventry
Buildings  
  • A study exploring how faith groups use buildings to serve the local community
  • The social value of public spaces - Joseph Rowntree Foundation. This research is relevant to any organisation managing a community building or space.
Community life  
  • Managing Death in the Muslim Community in Tower Hamlets - Improving after life services - Social Action for Health. Addressing concerns of local Muslim people in relation to the way death is being managed in Tower Hamlets.
  • Accessible banking services - The Banking Code
  • ‘Smarter Funding for Schools’ report - The London Councils say that children from L
CUF Xchange Voice Findings  
  • Findings from the Xchange '07 events in London (20th March), Manchester (27th March) and Birmingham (28th March)
Funding and Sustainability  
  • Funding faith-based activity - the challenges for projects and funders
HOMELESSNESS  
  • 29/04/07 - The Economic and Social Research Council have given a grant for new research to be undertaken on homelessness.
Housing Estates  
  • Twenty-five years on Twenty Estates - Rebecca Tunstall and Alice Coulter - Joseph Rowntree Foundation - Research from London School of Economics
Local Economics  
  • 'Plugging the leaks - Making the most of every pound that enters your local economy'. The handbook is for you if you are worried about your local economy. 'The chances are, it's not thriving and you are beginning to wonder if the usual approaches to economic development are really working.'

Migrant Communities  
  • The Reception and Integration of New Migrant Communities report by the Institute for Public Policy Research.
Participation  

  • Do policies to promote community participation in governance build social capital? Research by DEMOS and Joseph Rowntree Foundation
  • Engaging Faith Communities - A study of faithful capital in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire
  • Faithful Representation - Faith Representatives on Local Public Partnerships - Summary, key findings and recommendations - Church Urban Fund
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Click on the relevant words below to find useful research web-links. The bigger the size of word, the greater the number of web- links.
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