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About Xchange Groups

Xchange Groups meet between 3 and 4 times annually. Each Xchange Group consists of between 6 and 12 practitioners (volunteers and paid professionals) involved in developing grassroots faith-based responses to issues associated with poverty in the top 10% poorest areas in England.

Xchange Groups have been established in the following areas:

• Birmingham working with Birmingham Anglican Church Diocese
• Newcastle working with Partners in Community Action (PICA)
• Cornwall Voice (Truro) working with Cormwall Anglican Church Diocese
• East London working with Tower Hamlets Anglican Deanary

Xchanged Groups covering specific themes have been established around:

• Employment projects working with Worth Unlimited
  
• Youthwork working with Frontier Youth Trust
• Black and Minority Ethnic projects with Churches' Commission for Racial Justice
  
• Housing estate-based projects working with the National Estates Churches Network
  

The Xchange is working to establish more thematic groups which connect with isolated faith-based projects and practitioners.

Xchange Groups work  to:

• Identify and explain effective and distinctive work undertaken by Faith-based Social Action Projects.
• Highlight obstacles being confronted and explore how these could be resolved.
• Function as a sounding board responding to questions emanating from within policy forums and government – including the Cabinet Office.
• Provoke further discussion, debate, research and change

Xchange Groups:

• Work to clarify and record the experience of faith-based projects - the effective practice and the obstacles to development.
• Explore questions agreed prior to each meeting, relevant to their practice. this may include their experience of the public sector, managing staff and volunteers or issues related governance.
• Are flexible responding to issues emerging from within the group or from external policy forums and government

Xchange Groups are:

• Reactive – Responsive to immediate / parochial issues pressing in on projects
• Strategic – With perspectives on how the parochial connects to the ‘Bigger Picture’

Xchange Groups have developed out of the work of CUF Xchange.

• CUF Xchange will only work with existing projects, organisations and networks to develop Xchange Groups.
  
• From this working partnership Xchange Groups are established to provide a platform for projects to share insights, and for these to be fed into local, regional and national government and policy forums.

Want to know more about Xchange Groups or interested in setting up an Xchange Group where you are? Contact us for more details

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