Corin Pilling reflects on what he has learnt recently leading services in a care home. He shares the discovery that simple activities offered with time, patience and the opportunity to participate have the power to build deep connections among a group as well as with God.

Does your church want to grow community connections and tackle loneliness and isolation? Do you want to create a place of welcome in your neighbourhood?

Get this new resource called ‘Make a meal of it’. It gives you inspiration and practical tips for how to plan and host a meal in your community for older people.

​​​​​​​The resource comes from a new faith based coalition called ‘Christians Together Against Loneliness’ to tackle isolation amongst older people. The partner organisations backing the resource include: Livability, The Salvation Army, Linking Lives UK, Pilgrims Friend, Torches Trust, Parish Nursing Ministries UK, Care Home Friends and The Gift of Years.

Livability team members Anna Ruddick and Ruth Young both have lots of experience in advising Christian organisations on articulating their Christian ethos. This is the story of how they recently helped London-based youth organisation Hebe work out who they are in relation to their faith. We also find out why it matters for everyone to be clear, consistent and confident and how any organisation can begin the process for themselves.

A helpful and practical resource from Theos and the Centre for Public Theology designed to help Christian organisations think through the issues around sharing your faith. Including some practical questions and different models to help you work out what is appropriate in your context, it finishes with some top tips from Livability about the importance of being confident in what you do and why you do it.