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Framework Action Week

Poverty & Homelessness Action Week (28th Jan – 5th Feb 2012) and Homelessness Sunday (29th Jan 2012) are annual national events focusing on the problems of poverty and homelessness across the country.

The aim is to encourage churches to act as advocates for local vulnerable people through fundraising events, links with local projects, guest speakers, sermons, services and themed prayers of intercession.  Organised and sponsored by 14 Christian charities and church groups, the theme for 2012 is “Breaking Barriers” – challenging prejudice, removing stigma and enabling excluded people to live a more full and fair life.

To coincide with this important nationwide event, this year we are launching Framework Action Week and we hope you will support us by making poverty and homelessness a focus of your church’s activity and worship.  

How your church chooses to get involved will depend on what might engage your congregation, examples have included collections, refreshment sales, social suppers, guest speakers, event launches, starting to plan a local Sleep Out and even an old mobile phone amnesty.

You can download resources from here to help you to do this and to provide a local focus to your worship:

Prayers

Real Life Stories

Posters (click to download)

For more information about Framework Action Week, please feel free to contact us at fundraising@frameworkha.org, or for more information on Poverty Action Week & Homelessness Sunday, visit www.actionweek.org.uk.

Alternatively, you can follow Framework Action Week on our Facebook and Twitter pages and tell us what you're doing for Homelessness Sunday.

If you would like to support Framework, please send a donation in via your Gift Aid envelope or visit our donations page.