Inspiring Change

Be inspired

Worried about increasing food and fuel prices? Struggling to get your church interested?  Wary of politicians who won’t get to grips with the growing gap between rich and poor?  Feeling like you don’t have a voice and no one is listening?

This year’s CAP conference provides an opportunity to be challenged, inspired and energised:  

• Hear real stories from round the country of where local CAP groups and programmes have enabled people to speak up, get organised and become Changemakers in their own communities.
• Learn more about the Get Fair campaign and Poverty and Homelessness Action Week, and how you can get involved.
• Share your own stories of what inspires you to want to make a difference, what works – and what doesn’t.
• Pick up ideas from others about how to engage your church and how to put your own MP on the spot.
• Go away with practical tools and ideas to use in your own church or group.

Changemakers

There will be talks and presentations at the conference from a wide range of groups and individuals who have effectively brought change in their communities:

• Local CAP groups from the North East, Sheffield and Leeds
  
• Changemakers, CAP’s exciting new citizens’ organisation in Manchester
• Thrive and Women of Thornaby, projects which grew out of CAP’s work on Sustainable Livelihoods in Teesside
• CAP’s Participatory Budgeting Unit, which does pioneering work helping people to have a say in how public money is spent in their area
• Representatives of other groups including Progressio, Shelter and many more
• Voices from the Edge, a sneak preview of the drama specially commissioned for Action Week 2009

Keynote speaker

David Lammy is MP for Tottenham and has served as a minister in the Departments of Health, Constitutional Affairs and Media, Culture & Sport. He is the author of Making Poverty History at Home, a pamphlet published by the Christian Socialist Movement and the Von Hügel Institute in 2006.

“It is time for all Christians to follow in the great tradition of the church and help create the social movement that we need, as we strive to make poverty history at home.”

 How to book

• Download the conference flyer here, with full programme and booking form to print and return.
• Or contact the CAP office: 0161 236 9321 or info@church-poverty.org.uk.