SR Resources
This is a selection of the vast array of SR resources that are available. For a more complete catalogue and to discuss where best to spend your time, contact your local member of SRN.
SRN guidance for new SROs
Guidelines for Social Responsibility Staff
This document provides guidance for new SROs and for those responsible for appointing SROs.
Please note that these guidelines are in the process of being revised. The most important update to note is that the principle national SR officers are now part of Mission and Public Affairs Division, for more information about MPA Division go to www.churchofengland.org/our-faith/mission/the-team.aspx.
Download the Guidelines
SRN member publications
Faith in Action: A Derbyshire Churches Guide to Community Mission (2008)
A practical and ecumenical manual that equips local churches with the why and how of Community Focussed Mission. Contributions have come from a range of local specialists including SR staff, advisers from CVSs and buildings specialists from a number of denominations. Its 5 chapters take you from the Ôwhy botherÕ theology, though the intricacies of planning, to the nitty gritty of raising funds and gaining permissions. Each part is reproducible for group use.
Faith in Action is available for download, on CD or as hard copy in a loose leaf folder. Contact the Faith in Action team.
Some national resources and SR organisations
Mission and Public Affairs Division
The Church of England is called, as are all Churches, to carry forward the work that Jesus Christ began in all aspects of the life of people in society. The Mission and Public Affairs division (MPA) oversees how that calling is carried out at the national level of the Church of England in evangelism, development of parish congregations, internationally through the work of the world mission agencies - and in rural and urban
www.churchofengland.org/our-faith/mission/the-team.aspx
Shrinking the Footprint
The Church of England's national environmental campaign aimed at resourcing the Church's 44 dioceses (including the Diocese in Europe) and 16,000 churches to reduce their footprint.
ecocongregation
Eco-Congregation is an ecumenical programme helping churches make the link between environmental issues and Christian faith, and respond in practical action in the church, in the lives of individuals, and in the local and global community.
Church Urban Fund
We are Christians tackling poverty together in England.
We do this by giving time and money, action and prayer.
Church Action on Poverty
Church Action on Poverty enables people in poverty to develop more sustainable livelihoods. Helping give a voice to people experiencing poverty. Mobilising churches to work with others to overcome poverty.
We are a national ecumenical Christian social justice charity, committed to tackling poverty in the UK. We work in partnership with churches and with people in poverty themselves to find solutions to poverty, locally, nationally and globally.