Even more capacity building case studies

St Martin-in-the-Fields received a grant from the Archbishops Council's 'Strategic Development Funding' to support the development of HeartEdge. The award is enabling HeartEdge to develop and resource its growing network of member churches. The funding is for resources being developed for each of the 4 Cs (compassion, culture, commerce and congregation). These will be used by member churches to develop their mission. A team of experienced practitioners will also be appointed to work with churches to develop and build dynamic, relevant activity related to the 4 Cs.

We are adding case studies from this research undertaken by Naomi Jacobs to the Resources section of this website.

The latest case studies to be added are:

• Commerce: Greyfriars Kirk and the Grassmarket Community Project
• Commerce: St Martin's Methodist Church, Allenton
• Commerce: The Grand Junction development at St Mary Magdalene Paddington
• Culture: All Saints Northampton
• Culture: Chapel in the Fields
• Culture: Victoria  Methodist Church, Bristol
• Congregation: St Bride's Liverpool
• Congregation: St Isidore, Texas
• Congregation: Cotham Parish Church and St Paul’s Clifton
• Compassion: Ness Bank Church and Inverness Foodstuff
• Compassion: St Stephen's Norwich
• Compassion: Westray and Papay Kirks, Orkney

The case studies added initially were:

• Commerce: All Saints Kings Heath
• Culture: Westbourne Grove Church
• Culture: Longniddry Parish and Elcho Artspace
• Culture: BEYOND
• Culture: St John the Evangelist, Kingston
• Culture: Llangollen Parish
• Congregation: Church from Scratch
• Congregation: The Open Table Network
• Congregation: Belle Vue Baptist Church
• Congregation: Shoeburyness and Thorpe Bay Baptist Church 
• Compassion: Anna Chaplaincy
• Compassion: St Peter's Harrogate
• Compassion: Wythenshawe Parishes

More case studies will be added as the research progresses. 

To find the case studies join HeartEdge at https://www.heartedge.org/main/sign-up, then sign in to the website and click on 'Resources' and 'Case Studies'.