#Do1NiceThing Lent Challenge
Love Your Streets are joining forces with Big Bible, Neighbourhood Prayer Network, HOPE. StreetBank, CARE, Redeeming Our Communities, Parish Pump and Street Angels - CNI Network to encourage people across the UK to #Do1NiceThing each day during Lent. The challenge aims to equip people with a different #Do1NiceThing activity every day between Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday which will make our communities nicer places to be. Paul Blakey MBE, founder of Street Angels - CNI Network, comments, "#Do1NiceThing is a great way of showing others and our communities the love of Christ in action. From ideas such as being a nicer driver to organising an Easter street party, #Do1NiceThing is simple but effective." Bex Lewis of the Big Bible comments, "Our lives have become more busy, hectic and harried. Lent offers us an opportunity to slow down, to reflect on some prayerful poetry along with others via #BIGRead14, and then put something simple into practice as we each seek to #Do1NiceThing” Rebekah Brettle, founder of Neighbourhood Prayer Network, says, "Neighbourhood Prayer Network will be encouraging as many people as possible to take part in #Do1NiceThing over lent. In our technology driven lives, this is a simple way to impact our neighbourhoods for the better, with the potential to reach so many with the love of God." The #Do1NiceThing Lent Challenge is available at www.do1nicething.org.uk and people are encouraged to tweet and update Facebook with the challenges and Barefoot Prayer thoughts each day during Lent. Street Chaplains - CNI Network will have an exhibition at the Redeeming Our Communities Community Showcase Events at Glasgow's Royal Concert Hall on 5th February at 7.30pm. Sally Magnusson will host an inspiring evening about community transformation with special guests Sir Stephen House, Midge Ure and Debra Green OBE. The evening will also include performances from Britain's Got Talent's Jai McDowall, The High School of Glasgow Choir and Police Scotland Pipe Band. The event is free and tickets are available here. Street Angels First Aid is a project of Halifax Street Angels which aims to provide low cost but high quality first aid training to businesses, charities and organisations locally and nationally. Week in, week out we see the importance of basic first aid through the work we do, and we believe everyone should have some knowledge of how to care for someone in an emergency situation.
Visit the web site at www.streetangelsfirstaid.co.uk Costs: An emergency First Aid at Work (FAW) course is charged at £40 per person, this is a 6 hour course and the price includes certification, an information book, first aid card and a light lunch. A First Aid at Work (FAW) course is charged at £120pp, this course is a three day course (18 hours in total) and this price includes certification, an information book, first aid card and a light lunches. We also provide first aid for events, this is charged at £20 per hour, and we will have a team of fully qualified and experienced first aiders. Paediatric first aid courses are also provided, please contact us for more information on these as we are flexible on prices. *Please Note* We are flexible on prices with larger groups, charities, churches and other organisations so if you would like to book a first aid course we recommend you contact us to discuss exactly what we offer and any discount we may be able to give. You can call us on: 07747 847 745 Please find attached Street Angels - CNI Network's response and thoughts about Manchester Angels following Wednesday's meetings.
Do email any specific questions... Many thanks Paul, Trevor and Steve Founder, chair and vice-chair Street Angels - CNI Network PDF Attachement Over the winter of 2012/13 SURVIVA supplied Hooded Body Warmers to a large number of Street Pastor groups. We received useful feedback from them which has resulted in us adapting our original product to meet the varying needs that were identified. We now have a number of products for you to choose from and are delighted to have been able to reduce our prices slightly over the last month due to increased efficiency in our production process: ![]() Standard body warmer: Our body warmer now has two tabs, one under each armpit, so that it can be adjusted by you or the wearer to make it fit more comfortably. The tabs enable the body warmer to be pulled in securely to make it figure hugging, therefore more durable. The new tabs, which we have developed with 3M adhesive technology, have taken a little while to perfect but now make the garments much more efficient. The body warmers are available at £0.85 ex. VAT for 25-199 and £0.80 ex VAT for orders of 200+ ![]() Front opening body warmer: We have opened up the front of the original body warmer and have added four more tabs down the front split opening. This works much better for people who are less mobile and can be fitted without having to pull it over the head. Many have found this more acceptable in trials, especially when help is being provided to inebriated individuals The front opening body warmer is available at £1.00 ex. VAT for orders of 25-199 and £0.90 ex.VAT for orders of 200+ ![]() Small Blanket: We can now offer a small foil blanket too, measuring 1.5m x 0.85m, which is long enough to cover the body and can be held around an individual to help keep them warm. Our small blanket is available at £0.53 ex. VAT for orders of 25-199 and £0.50 ex. VAT for orders of 200+ ![]() Poncho: Throughout the year there were also several requests for a “poncho” type product. We believe that our new poncho fulfils this need. This also has tabs making it more efficient than a blanket although for maximum heat retention we would always advise using a body warmer. The poncho is available at £0.72 ex. VAT for 25-199 and £0.68 ex VAT for orders of 200+ SURVIVA update. Over the summer we have also been hard at work in association with ShelterBox, the UK’s largest Disaster Relief Charity, to improve the quality of the heat reflective liners they supply in their tents. We have also expanded the workforce in our factory, which is located in Swansea and can now respond quickly to your needs. All the materials we use are made in the UK and our workforce is based in Swansea. In this way we are able to respond quickly to your needs with a high quality product at sensible prices, which also goes on to help the UK economic recovery. We have enjoyed getting to know you over the last year and hope you can see that we’ve taken on board comments which have enabled us to give you a wider range of improved products. We hope these continue to be of use to you in the months ahead. We regard the work you do as most beneficial for the people you help and the communities in which you work. We wish you the very best with everything that you do. Should you wish to order please email [email protected]. Provide us with the quantities of the products you require and a contact address for delivery. We will invoice you with the products, which we would like you to settle within the following seven days. A BACS payment is preferred. If you need any more information or advice, please phone Peter Lewis on 01626 773819. You can leave a voicemail message if we are busy or unavailable at the time and we will get back to you or you can telephone the factory direct on 01792 414039. We are always happy to listen to your ideas so that we can improve the service we provide for you. Many thanks Peter Lewis - 01626 773819
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A RALLYING call has gone out in a bid to boost a group of volunteers who help keep the streets safe. South Tyneside Street Angels is on the lookout for more people to join its army of saviours who look out for revellers in need of support. The scheme, which runs in South Shields town centre at weekends, was launched in June 2012, and has been hailed a success by police and pub managers. As well as giving first aid to those who have been hurt, they make sure those who are worse for wear are taken safely to a taxi, or rehydrated with a bottle of water. The team also carry flip-flops to help out women in agony after a night of dancing in heeled shoes. Co-ordinator Pauline Bittlestone said: “The Street Angels scheme has been really successful, but we could do with some more volunteers, so we can have more teams working more nights, helping more people. “We currently have 10 Street Angels and we would love to be able to double those numbers.” As well as helping keep people safe, those who volunteer can also boost their CV. Mrs Bittlestone added: “It’s really good for those who are looking for employment, as it shows a willingness to take things on. It is really good, and the camaraderie among the angels, and those we meet out on the town, is brilliant.” All new recruits, who operate in teams of three, will receive training to help them stay safe. Would-be Street Angels must be over the age of 18. Shifts are on Friday and/or Saturday nights between 10pm and 3am. For more information, and to register an interest in becoming a street angel, e-mail [email protected] Source
REVELLERS flocked to the town centre to celebrate the start of the New Year. Thousands of people came to Bolton late into the evening and into the early hours of New Year’s Day. But the town was believed to be relatively quiet for what is one of the busiest evenings for the emergency services. Fifteen of Bolton Mountain Rescue Team’s volunteers supported the North West Ambulance Service by using the charity’s four Land Rover ambulances and its minibus ambulances to respond to call-outs. They attended 14 incidents in Bolton and Manchester from 9.30pm until around 4am. Garry Rhodes, chairman of BMRT, said: “From midnight until 4am we dealt with 11 separate incidents. The incidents were in Manchester, Bolton town centre, Little Hulton and Wigan. “Some of the injuries were through intoxication. Most of the 14 calls we received were relatively minor things. “Two calls we received we got there and nobody was there. This is the 16th year we have supported the NWAS.” He said members came across a two-car crash near Dunscar on Tuesday evening but none of the people in the cars wanted to be taken to hospital. A woman in Heaton was taken to Royal Bolton Hospital in the early hours of New Year’s Day with suspected spinal injuries after she is believed to have fallen down some stairs. A man helped by BMRT in Manchester city centre suffered a broken leg after falling. Bolton’s Street Angels volunteers gave up their time to assist people in need in the town centre. Adrienne Tonge, from Bolton Street Angels, said: “The evening was strange, it was very quiet until midnight. If it was a Saturday night we would have thought it was quiet. “There was a few young people chancing it with the bars and clubs but quite a few groups were refused entry. “We heard the pubs and clubs talking to each other over the radio to keep people out who weren’t behaving well. There were a couple of fracas that we saw but generally speaking it was surprisingly quiet.” Volunteers helped a teenage boy who was found drunk in a back street. They cared for him in their Bradshawgate base before his family collected him. They also gave first aid to a man who had fallen and hurt his hand. Girls who had become separated from their friends were also helped. Bolton’s Street Angels will be relocating to its new base in Churchgate at The Safe Space Cafe on Saturday. They help revellers each Saturday of the year. Happy New Year 2014 Blwyddyn Newydd Dda (to our Welsh projects) / Feliz Año Nuevo (to our Spanish projects) Your people will rebuild the cities that were destroyed long ago. And you will build again on the old foundations. You will be called the one who repairs broken walls. You will be called the one who makes city streets like new again. Isaiah 58:12 - The Bible Thanks to all those who volunteer, support, lead and pray within our one hundred and twenty five local projects. 2013 was a tremendous year of serving and making the difference in the lives of individuals and communities. As an international network we have grown in influence and are now approached almost weekly to share about the work we do with media, MP's, organisations, etc. You can read a few of the things achieved in 2013 on our Christmas Card - here's to more in 2014 and that as local projects and an international network we will be called the ones who make city streets like new again... Moving forward we would like to highlight several events to you: Songs of Praise - BBC 1's popular religious programme Songs of Praise is to feature the work of Street Angels on Sunday 19th January. The programme features a sequence where Diane Louise Jordan joins the Bedford Street Angels on a busy Saturday night and finds out first hand how the Street Angels play a vital role in keeping people safe – and in a moving interview with Frederick and Fran Gill she learns how the tragic murder of their son Robert acted as a catalyst to the formation of Bedford Street Angels. Watch listings nearer the date for the time of the broadcast. #Do1NiceThing Lent Challenge - Love Your Streets is one of the five strands of our work and during Lent we encourage people to #Do1NiceThing every day until Easter. More information is here. Northern Conference - a one day conference in York with keynote speaker Jarrod Cooper, singer Phillipa Hanna and several afternoon workshops that will resource and equip those who volunteer. Saturday 12th April - see here for details and to book. Afternoon Tea at Lambeth Palace - Monday 20th October - more details to be announced soon... 2015:10 - In 2015 we are celebrating significant anniversaries across three nations! In Northern Ireland, Belfast Nightlight was launched in 1995 (following a trial in 1989 - 1991) and so is celebrating 20 years; Scotland Dundee's Street Chaplains launched in 2000 and celebrates 15 years; and in England Halifax Street Angels launched in 2005 and so is celebrating 10 years. We are planning a year of 2015:10 celebrations in 2015. It is hoped to hold a National Conference and several celebration events to celebrate all that is achieved through our amazing connected projects. More details over 2014 - to be involved contact Paul. BIG response BIG issues - following discussions on the CNI Network Facebook Group we are looking at promoting ways local communities can offer a coordinated BIG response to BIG issues that effect local areas. We recognise that individually projects are limited as to the extent of what they can do but working together we can begin to tackle the reason behind the issues and problems not just offer a 'sticking plaster'. More will be developed over the coming weeks. From the Blog: Calls for street angels to keep city centre revellers safe after Adam Pickup tragedy - our thoughts and prayers with the family and friends of Adam at this time Police officer who initiated Ipswich Town Pastors awarded MBE - congratulations Neil from CNI Network! Boro Angels in Evening Gazette Angels Are Watching Over Festive Aylesbury Party-Goers Bishop of Manchester highlights Street Angels in Christmas Message Meet the team that keeps Sleaford safe at night Burton Street Angels receive £16,000 boost Premier radio interview Paul Blakey following Prime Minister's Christmas message Housing Hartlepool Funds Street Angels Bolton was well behaved on Mad Friday / Bolton Street Angels find a new home Proposed Stockton Town Pastors mobile unit Lichfield Late Night Nativity South Tyneside Street Angels will fly to aid of festive revellers Mad Friday safety tips Blackpool Street Angels trained by Papyrus Sleaford Target tweet a night with StreetSource Guildford Street Angels Newsletter Hull's Christmas drunks to be treated at makeshift medical centre in Trinity Square Police in new bid to cut sexual offences A Night Out with the Club Angels 'Brilliant' start for Tamworth Street Angels Stockton Town Pastors December Newsletter Follow us on Facebook and Twitter for updates from across the Network... #CNIPrayer As we enter a quieter period between New Year and Easter please pray for our volunteer teams as they patrol on very cold nights. Pray for the work of our partner agencies. Some of our projects have become prayer twins - offering support and prayer for one another: Exmouth Open Door NightShift (who had the idea) and Whitby Street Angels Stockton Town Pastors and Blackpool Street Angels Dundee Club Chaplains and Leeds Club Angels and Croydon Club Angels Wash My Pink Jumper / Witney Street Pastors and Sanktuary Telford Above a few pictures from over the busy Christmas and New Year period - our thanks to every person who volunteered, some until 6am, to keep our towns and cities safer and nicer. Diary Dates: Sunday 19th January - Songs of Praise on BBC1 to feature Bedford Street Angels - see here Sunday 19th January - Tamworth Street Angels commissioning service with guests Paul and Jean Blakey - more details on our Facebook / Twitter pages nearer date. Sunday 19th January - Bolton Street Angels celebration event - Trevor Bendrien, chair of trustees, is speaking - more details on our Facebook / Twitter pages nearer date. Thursday 23rd January - Club Angels Croydon Training - email Third Space Ministries for more info. Tuesday 25th February - CNI Network Trustees and Vision day - local projects welcome to input in the afternoon - day is in Halifax. Contact Paul for more details. Resources: Talks - Paul is available to talk to groups (ladies groups, Rotary, luncheon clubs, etc) on the work of Street Angels - CNI Network. He is willing to travel within an hour or so of Halifax and asks for a donation and travel expenses (towards the work of CNI). Trustees are available in other areas of the country. Paul recently received feedback: 'Your talk to the group in July proved to be one of the most enjoyable in recent years. The members are still talking about the work you and the Street Angels undertake' - email for details. Dudes With Wings - mugs, magnets, keyrings, cards with the 'Dudes With Wings' logo! See here for details and to order. CNI linked projects can input a code to receive 50% discount (the full RRP you sell at will benefit your local project) - email Paul for the code. Who are the Street Angels? comics - thanks to UCB we are able to offer 50 of these free (£5 donation requested for postage) to each project. WeHelpedYou.org.uk - a web site with various ways of donating to local projects or CNI Network including Give As You Live, on-line, sponsored events, text and donating a scrap car! Flip-flops - we have several thousand pairs of flip-flops available to local CNI projects. They are available in packages of 50 size 4 and 50 size 6 for £75 + carriage (£10 of pick up from West Yorkshire). YourNight - this mobile app is essential to help those who go out in your centre to have a safe and fun night. What a great gift to our communities - see here for more information. Over the winter months Street Angels faced with minus temperatures, cold winds, snow, ice and frost have to keep their heads warm! The blog entry and Facebook album is to feature funny hats and we invite you to like the picture - the ones with the most likes win a prize (by end of March 2014 when the weather warms up!!!) Email your pics to [email protected] with the subject HATS! CNI Network is supporting two campaigns - please sign the online petitions if you feel you can also support:
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A Facebook campaign is calling for more late night patrols to make sure revellers get home safely in the 17-year-old’s memory. A campaign has been launched to recruit an army of street angels to keep people safe on nights out in Manchester city centre after the death of Stockport teenager Adam Pickup. A Facebook page calling for more late night patrols to make sure revellers get home safely in the 17-year-old’s memory has attracted more than 5,000 ‘likes’ within hours of its launch this morning. Site user Wesley Hall, who set it up, wrote: “If anything good is going to come out of this young man’s family’s tragic loss, I will do it. “In 2014 we're hoping that nothing similar will happen. And by forming a street angel campaign in Manchester with volunteers that will walk the streets into the early hours of the morning, we hope to help others.” Aquinas College staff and students lead tributes after Stockport teenager Adam Pickup's death Adam Pickup: Your tributes Tributes paid to teenager Adam Pickup found dead in Manchester city centre The project, Manchester Angels, has been launched as a tribute to the teenager, from Bramhall, although his family are not involved at this stage. Hundreds of people have already pledged their support - among them, Nick Carr Brown, leader of the city centre’s existing Street Pastors project. The new group is also seeking help from another Christian organisation, Manchester City Mission, and Greater Manchester Police . A meeting is to be held in the new year to "get the ball rolling", Wesley wrote. Adam, a student at Aquinas College, went missing in the early hours of Saturday after a night out with friends at Fab Cafe on Portland Street. His body was found at 3.30pm yesterday under a railway bridge near Deansgate station. The cause of his death has yet to be confirmed but police are not treating it as suspicious. "Street Angels are utterly utterly brilliant" Timmy Mallett (who presented Windsor Street Angels with an Award for Community Safety at the Royal Borough Council Awards)
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BOLTON’S Street Angels — who help town centre revellers — has found a new home. The volunteers are having to relocate because their current premises are being transformed into student accommodation. And, after weeks of searching, the volunteer organisation will set up its Safe Space Café in Churchgate. The Angels have been based at 91 Bradshawgate for three years, paying a peppercorn rent under a government scheme to help not-for-profit organisations set up in vacant commercial units, which they would not otherwise be able to afford. But this is being transformed into The Cube, which will be luxury student accommodation. Clare Gore, of Bolton Street Angels, said: “It worked so well. Better than I could have hoped for. “We have had three great years at 91 Bradshawgate in which we have grown as a project. We will always be grateful to our landlord for being so supportive.” The Street Angels found out in October that they would need to move. Andrew Holden, a property consultant, who helped them to find their new home, said “It was a difficult relocation, despite the number of empty shops available.” Mr Holden first approached Lamb and Swift asking for any unit in Bradshawgate and Churchgate. The firm of property consultants approached their landlords, coming back with the perfect unit for the Angels. Ms Gore said: “The shop is in a fantastic location and has lots of space that we will make the most of. We hope to link with other community projects aimed at the disadvantaged and vulnerable in Bolton to really get the most out of the space for the town.” One such project is Digger’s Kitchen, which ran a pilot from 91 Bradshawgate during December, taking food that would otherwise go to waste and redistributing it to those in need. The Street Angels will move into their new home after the festive break on January 4. Kevin Hegarty, of Ideal Site Ltd, was very understanding of the Street Angels’ situation and with the builders, Quaystone Building, gave them as much time as possible to relocate. For more information visit boltonstreetangels.org or contact [email protected] Source
A retired Suffolk police sergeant who has dedicated his career and voluntary work to helping people across the county is to be honoured for his work. Neil Boast, formerly of the Suffolk police licensing and sexual exploitation team (LASER), will receive an MBE in the New Year’s Honours for services to policing. As well as his work during his time with the force, heading up a unit dealing with prostitution and liquor licensing issues, he also voluntarily gave his time to other causes. This has included being part of the Town Pastors scheme, which aims to help and show concern to anyone who needs assistance during nights out and to offer practical help. Mr Boast has also used his knowledge of motorcycles to volunteer as an assessor for the bikes used by Service by Emergency Rider Volunteers (SERV), which transport vital medical items. Source
VOLUNTEERS from a Chichester group working to combat crime have lots to celebrate. City Angels is not only celebrating its second birthday – but data from Sussex Police shows the team has also helped to reduce anti-social behaviour and crime on the streets of Chichester. The figures – which include a 58 per cent reduction in anti-social behaviour on Friday nights and an 82 per cent drop in assaults with injury on a Saturday night – are based on a comparison between 2011 and 2013. “City Angels has been an amazing success to date, beyond what we could have ever hoped for as we dreamt up the project,” said Dan Slatter, the pastor of Revelation Church. “The evidence shows that it continues to have an incredible impact on crime and disorder on our city centre streets. When I was informed of the latest police crime data, my jaw hit the floor. “It’s amazing what a diverse yet normal group of people inspired by their faith can do.” City Angels is run in association with Sussex Police and Chichester District Council. Inspector Will Rolls from the Chichester neighbourhood policing team said: “This latest data highlights the excellent impact of the City Angels in Chichester, as part of the ongoing work to make Chichester a safer place to live, work and socialise.” |
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ROC Angels - an initiative of ROC (Redeeming Our Communities)
Charity - 1139817 / Registered Company - 7327258 Postal Address: ROC Angels, c/o The King's Centre, Park Rd, Halifax, HX1 2TS E-Mail: [email protected] (founder / CEO) / Phone: 07725501465 |