BENEFICE CHARITIES

The Upper Itchen Benefice, individual Parishes, and of course individual people all support a wealth of different charities throughout the year - giving their time, support and money. As a Benefice we have nominated 5 particular charities for extra focus - enabling us to promote their work more directly, develop volunteer teams from across the Benefice, and run larger fundraising and awareness raising events. The charities we have chosen at present include those focusing on local and global concerns, and span age groups and categories of support.

For each of the 5 Benefice Charities, we aim to:
1. promote their work & issues;
2. promote volunteering opportunities;
3. run fund/profile-raising events and collection schemes;
4. donate via our benefice churches' annual giving.

THE 5 NOMINATED BENEFICE CHARITIES

WINCHESTER CHURCHES NIGHTSHELTER	THE CHILDREN'S SOCIETY	CHRISTIAN AID
Offering Hope and Help for the Homeless. A Nightshelter for the homeless, providing food, accommodation, IT and other life-skills development, and expert support to help guests move into permanent accommodation, employment, and escaping the homeless cycle for good. The Nightshelter also works with Trinity on Street Outreach to rough sleepers in Winchester. Located behind the Discovery Centre in Winchester. Relies on volunteers to operate alongside one paid member of staff per night. How can you get involved? One-off Events: Homelessness Sunday 31st January 2010 Ongoing involvement: Join the Benefice Cooking Team Volunteer at the Nightshelter Donate goods or money Find out more about the charity: www.wcns.org.uk	The Children's Society is a leading children's charity committed to making childhood better for all children in the UK. We take action to prevent, rescue and support children facing life trapped in a vicious circle of fear and harm. A national network of projects, pioneering research, influential campaigning, the UK’s first independent national inquiry into childhood...and more Ongoing involvement: Have a loose change Children's Society Collecting Box in your home Become the Upper Itchen area co-ordinator Find out more about the charity: www.childrenssociety.org.uk	Christian Aid has been severely hit by the recession and will have to cut back its work unless donations increase. Christian Aid and its partners are working to bring an end to poverty around the world - tackling its root causes as well as its effects. Christian Aid works with the world's poorest people in nearly 50 countries, regardless of faith or race, tackling the causes and consequences of poverty and injustice. By supporting Christian Aid's emergency appeals you'll be helping people whose lives have been affected by crisis, conflict and disaster. We believe in life before death. Ongoing involvement: Volunteer to collect during Christian Aid Week Give to the Blue Bucket Benefice DEC Appeals (Christian Aid part of DEC) Find out more about the charity: www.christianaid.org.uk
LANGO UGANDA LINK	CHURCH MISSION SOCIETY (CMS)
The Church of Uganda was set up in 1897, becoming in 1961 the Province of the Church of Uganda and Rwanda-Burundi, which also included part of Zaïre (now the Democratic Republic of Congo). John Taylor had served as a missionary in Uganda before becoming Bishop of Winchester and in 1977 he launched a formal partnership with the Ugandan Church. Deaneries in the Diocese of Winchester have Mission Committees made up of members from different parishes and some very close and rewarding links have been established, with visits made in both directions. Alresford Deanery is linked with Lango in Uganda. Parishes are encouraged to give financial contributions towards the partnership link. Ongoing involvement: Support Lent lunches or other events which raise funds for Lango, or donate directly via the benefice account. Find out more: www.winchester.anglican.org	CMS supports over 700 people in mission, works in over 50 countries and has offices in Cape Coast, Nairobi, Oxford and Seoul. CMS works closely with new mission movements, especially in Africa and Asia, and has formed 240 international and local strategic alliances for collaborative work. The Upper Itchen Benefice supports two CMS mission partners - Jason and Tracey Day. Ongoing involvement: Support Jason & Tracey Day, our Benefice CMS mission partners, by donating via the benefice account. Find out more about the charity: www.cms-uk.org

WINCHESTER CHURCHES NIGHTSHELTER

THE CHILDREN'S SOCIETY

CHRISTIAN AID

Offering Hope and Help for the Homeless. A Nightshelter for the homeless, providing food, accommodation, IT and other life-skills development, and expert support to help guests move into permanent accommodation, employment, and escaping the homeless cycle for good. The Nightshelter also works with Trinity on Street Outreach to rough sleepers in Winchester.
Located behind the Discovery Centre in Winchester. Relies on volunteers to operate alongside one paid member of staff per night.

How can you get involved?

One-off Events:
Homelessness Sunday
31st January 2010

Ongoing involvement:
Join the Benefice Cooking Team

Volunteer at the Nightshelter

Donate goods or money

Find out more about the charity:
www.wcns.org.uk

The Children's Society is a leading children's charity committed to making childhood better for all children in the UK. We take action to prevent, rescue and support children facing life trapped in a vicious circle of fear and harm. A national network of projects, pioneering research, influential campaigning, the UK’s first independent national inquiry into childhood...and more

Ongoing involvement:
Have a loose change Children's Society Collecting Box in your home

Become the Upper Itchen area co-ordinator

Find out more about the charity:
www.childrenssociety.org.uk

Christian Aid has been severely hit by the recession and will have to cut back its work unless donations increase.

Christian Aid and its partners are working to bring an end to poverty around the world - tackling its root causes as well as its effects. Christian Aid works with the world's poorest people in nearly 50 countries, regardless of faith or race, tackling the causes and consequences of poverty and injustice.
By supporting Christian Aid's emergency appeals you'll be helping people whose lives have been affected by crisis, conflict and disaster.
We believe in life before death.

Ongoing involvement:
Volunteer to collect during Christian Aid Week

Give to the Blue Bucket Benefice DEC Appeals (Christian Aid part of DEC)

Find out more about the charity:
www.christianaid.org.uk

LANGO UGANDA LINK

CHURCH MISSION SOCIETY
(CMS)

The Church of Uganda was set up in 1897, becoming in 1961 the Province of the Church of Uganda and Rwanda-Burundi, which also included part of Zaïre (now the Democratic Republic of Congo). John Taylor had served as a missionary in Uganda before becoming Bishop of Winchester and in 1977 he launched a formal partnership with the Ugandan Church.

Deaneries in the Diocese of Winchester have Mission Committees made up of members from different parishes and some very close and rewarding links have been established, with visits made in both directions. Alresford Deanery is linked with Lango in Uganda. Parishes are encouraged to give financial contributions towards the partnership link.

Ongoing involvement:
Support Lent lunches or other events which raise funds for Lango, or donate directly via the benefice account.

Find out more:
www.winchester.anglican.org

CMS supports over 700 people in mission, works in over 50 countries and has offices in Cape Coast, Nairobi, Oxford and Seoul. CMS works closely with new mission movements, especially in Africa and Asia, and has formed 240 international and local strategic alliances for collaborative work.

The Upper Itchen Benefice supports two CMS mission partners - Jason and Tracey Day.

Ongoing involvement:
Support Jason & Tracey Day, our Benefice CMS mission partners, by donating via the benefice account.

Find out more about the charity:
www.cms-uk.org