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About Partnerships
Our 18 Partnerships were formally established by Bishop Séamus at Pentecost 2017. You can learn more about them, or visit our partnerships directory.
Resources
Guidelines and other resources developed for use by partnerships.
Sharing Area
Why reinvent the wheel? This area includes ideas and developments from partnerships. Send yours in too!
The Forward Together in Hope website is no longer being updated but is still accessible.
All of the resources developed during the programme will be available here until further notice.
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
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).
Latest Items:
Celebrating Partnership in Benedict Partnership
The Benedict Partnership Development Group [PDG] wanted to get the message out about its work and a way forward for the eight churches in our Partnership. We were also committed to raising participation in planning and ministry from amongst the lay communities via the work in a number of sub-groups which have been set up in the Partnership to help to direct work in specific areas. In September/October of this year a new approach was devised and the ‘Celebrating Partnership’ Roadshow was born. The Roadshow was run by a team of over thirteen people working in groups of three or four who visited all the Masses of the Partnership over a period of ten weeks. During Mass a presentation outlined the historical context as well as the current situation and what issues parishes and the Partnership will face in the future.
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December 2018
Seaton Delaval reflects on past 18 months of Partnerships
Seaton Delaval’s Partnership Dean reflects on the successes and challenges over the past 18 months, especially how to coordinate the work with young people.
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December 2018
Benedict Partnership's WW1 Centenary Poppy Memorial
Joan Formosa explains how the Benedict Partnership marked the centenary of WW1.
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December 2018
Past items:
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.
