External Links

The Active Faiths Community has moved to Kirkstall in Leeds to share office facilities with the West Yorkshire Community Chaplaincy Project.

The Mothers' Union is a worldwide organisation with 3.5 million members in 75 countries.
We have over 60 branches throughout Bradford Diocese plus a growing Diocesan Membership Scheme for people in parishes without a branch. The Bradford MU website is now in the process of rebirth.

The Bradford area committee for the Royal School of Church Music has a website which will be valuable to clergy, church musicians and others.

The Yorkshire Association covers some five different Dioceses, but details of Bradford towers are to be found here.

Our Trust was formed in 1988 and is non-denominational, covering all Christian faiths. Registered as an environmental body with ENTRUST we operate under the provisions of the Landfill Communities Fund and administer grants to churches falling within their rules.

The Church of England Official Website. This is a major site with a variety of links to many other resources

The national Christian Stewardship website. This is a central resource for all dioceses, full of ideas and resources from around the country and the world.

Church Army is linked to the Anglican Church but works outside church buildings to enable people to come to a living faith in Jesus Christ. In partnership with local church and community people they share the Christian message in relevant and sensitive ways.

The Church House Bookshop is now "live" on-line. You can now purchase all your church resources and Christian books from here

Their official catalogue and website

With children, for children, with you.
Working with children living on the margins of society, we listen to them, include them, involve them and campaign for changes to laws that affect them.

Maintaining a church involves a myriad of different tasks from Health and Safety issues to repairing roofs, from insuring the church to fundraising. This site is a 'one-stop shop' for anyone involved in the running of a church.

An organisation for those engaged in enhancing the experience of visitors (as tourists) to church buildings in the United Kingdom. A new website was launched in April 2007

Subscription based web service for Church schools, featuring legal and management information, resources and articles as well as discussion groups.

The online shop of the Church Mission Society specialises in supplying books, multimedia and other resources to churches, schools and individuals.

Christian Publishing and Outreach is the new name for the amalgamated companies Christian Publicity Organisation and Christian Media Centre.  It publishes the free Inspire magazine and Britain’s only monthly Christian women’s magazine, Woman Alive.

All the information in the 1200-page directory.
Basic information is accessible to all users but only subscribers can view full clergy biographies and contact details.
A subscription costs £25 (inc. VAT) for 12 months.

Ecclesiastical Insurance are the largest insurer of Anglican church property. They offer a range of products and services, ranging from Church Insurance, to Home Insurance to ISAs and Investment Funds.

A theological think-tank which works to promote theological ideas on the public square. They work to help churches and other groups work through issues from a theological perspective.

Fresh Expressions is an initiative of the Archbishops of Canterbury and York established in 2004 to encourage, enable and resource mission through fresh expressions of church in every diocese by 2010.

The Good Bookstall site is to help local churches encourage reading in their congregations and includes many reviews on books and help in how to go about setting up a bookstall and promote Christian reading.

Web site of the National Society for Promoting Religious Education.  Includes free collective worship (assemblies) resources for schools

The Parish Resources website has been revamped with over 200 new pages of resources added to it, including a good practice guide on Parish Reserves, an extended range of Funding Guides and a revamped rural toolkit.

The Prayer Book Society seeks to defend and uphold the doctrine and to promote the worship enshrined in the Book of Common Prayer.

USPG is an Anglican mission agency, working alongside churches and communities around the world, providing the resources - people, money and ideas - that they define as necessary to meet local needs. Our work involves pastoral care, social action and supporting training programmes.

The Arthur Rank Centre is the Churches National Rural Resource Unit.

Christian Ecology Link offers insights into ecology and the environment to Christian people and churches and gives Christian insights to the Green movement.

Christians on the Internet (COIN) is an ecumenical group, working to help develop sensible use of Internet technology by Christians. COIN hosts several discussion lists

Web site dedicated to this popular worship and service planning software

The main aim of WACRAL is to promote and spread, throughout the world, Christian Friendship and Fellowship through the medium of amateur radio and short wave listening.

ReSource is the new-look ARM, which seeks in the UK to bring "renewal for mission in the
power of the Holy Spirit". The aim in the long term is to let all clergy know how ReSource can help them with their own and their church's journey of faith - whatever their size and tradition.

Rejesus has a single focus - it goes to the vary heart of Christian life and faith - the person of Jesus Christ himself. Its aim is to reach people who have little previous knowledge of Jesus or the Christian faith and to encourage a step or two of faith. Now with a daily prayer section

There are many online bibles available. Three worthwhile resources are:

• The Bible Gateway
• Bible.com
• The Oremus Bible Browser

ROOTS publishes essential resources for worship preparation, in the form of two ecumenical, lectionary-based, bi-monthly magazines, Adult & All Age and Children & Young People. ROOTS is a joint Churches' initiative, supported by Churches Together in Britain and Ireland, along with
representatives from the churches and church publishers throughout the UK and Ireland. I'm happy to send you copies of the magazines if you are interested.