Partnerships Sharing Area
We are members of one Diocesan family accompanying each other on the same journey of renewal. As we move forward together we have the opportunity not only to develop our own partnerships but to contribute ideas and approaches that might be helpful to those in other areas too.
This section contains various ideas and approaches that we get to hear about from partnerships. However, we can only get to hear about them if you tell us, so please provide us with anything you feel might be suitable.
Continue to share your ideas and approaches through one of the following contacts:
Cleveland and South Durham: Andrew Gillingham
Newcastle and North Tyneside: Amy Cameron
Northumberland: Fiona Standfield
South Tyneside and Gateshead: Jeff Ledger
Sunderland and East Durham: Katherine Nugent
Latest Items:
We welcome articles from EVERY partnership; if you have ideas to share, best practice for processes, events, good news or just some stories of success, let us know! We will provide a snapshot here each month with a link to the full article.
Previous articles can be found in the archive section below.
Finchale Partnership: Spirituality Series.
During 2019, our Partnership held a number of very successful open days at our churches, but 2020’s lockdown restrictions meant that we were unable to hold face to face events. So the Partnership’s Spirituality Group organised a series of events on Zoom.
Our theme was the Spirituality of the Orders, an opportunity for us all to hear more about the many orders in the Catholic Church, and what gives them their different characters and traditions.
August 2021
Partnership News: Partnership Chairs Update February 2021
Throughout the various restrictions and close–downs that we have suffered over the last months, representatives of the Partnerships have been meeting as a group regularly by video links to share experiences with each other and to hear about a number of Diocesan initiatives that may create opportunities for us all, both in our current restricted state, as well as helping us to plan for when we are free to gather again.
This document provides a helpful summary of these meetings and additionally, a number of partnerships have also shared some details of what they have done since the pandemic restrictions began last year.
Partnerships submitting stories include, Heavenfield, Finchale, John Ingram, Blackfriars and Ovingham.
February 2021
Sharing Your Ideas
One year on from the establishment of the 18 Partnerships in our Diocese, it was felt to be timely to provide every Partnership with the opportunity to review the year. Each Partnership completed a short review and the responses make for a very rich source of information about what is going well and what are the main challenges going forward. A document has been produced as a compilation of the ideas and approaches that Partnerships offered in their responses. Entitled ‘Sharing your Ideas’, it is available here (pdf - word).
Archive:
2020:
Partnership name Date Topic Pontop December 2020 Love Christmas Benedict September 2020 Virtual Day of Recollection John Ingram August 2020 Good news and donations Pontop June 2020 Re-opening of church for individual prayer Finchale April 2020 Keeping in Touch Brinkburn February 2020 Day of Recollection
2019:
Partnership name Date Topic Pontop Partnership December 2019 Confirmation Course John Ingram July 2019 Garden Party Finchale June 2019 Partnership Event at Ushaw Seaton Delavel June 2019 Partnership Mass Blackfriars June 2019 Pentecost Finchale June 2019 Open Afternoons Escomb June 2019 Day of Recollection St. Mary the Virgin May 2019 Partnership Day Blackfriars May 2019 Day for Readers and Eucharistic Ministers Blackfriars April 2019 Partnership Progress Report Blackfriars March 2019 Being the Prodigal Son Blackfriars March 2019 Space for Grace – Our Call to Holiness Jesmond St. Mary March 2019 Liturgy of Mercy Service
2018:
2017:
Partnership name Date Topic Blackfriars Sept 2017 Partnership early planning stages St. Mary the Virgin August 2017 Partnership early planning stages
Some Food For Thought
During our Forward Together in Hope journey we gathered from Parish Questionnaires some of the many ideas and activities that were put forward as examples that might be of interest to others. These were collated and published in June 2016 as a 20-page booklet under the title ‘Some Food for Thought’. It is made available again here (pdf - word) as a reminder of the approach and a resources that can be dipped into.