Charities We Support

We actively support a number of local, national and international charities. Click on any name for more information.

Mission Aviation Fellowship	TEAR Fund
Mission to Seafarers	The Children's Society
The Leprosy Mission	Church Mission Society (CMS)
The Bible Society	Christian Aid
The Barnabas Fund	Operation Christmas Child
Restore	USPG
Focus Foyer	Anawim
St Luke's Hospital	Amaudo Itumbauzo
Open Christmas	Amnesty International
Fireside Day Centre

Mission Aviation Fellowship: MAF's small planes can use air-strips in remote parts of Africa and Asia where flying is a life-line. They carry workers such as doctors, vets, aid workers and evangelists. Cargo can vary from medical supplies and Bibles to seedling trees and school materials. They are often involved in evacuating medical emergencies.
Mission to Seafarers: is concerned with the spiritual and physical well-being of seafarers of all nationalities and faiths. In an average year over 600,000 seafarers are welcomed to the Mission's centres and over 71,000 visits are made to ships. The Mission is also involved in many justice cases and in assisting stranded seafarers.
The Leprosy Mission: is a Christian agency assisting with the physical, mental, social and spiritual needs of individuals and communities disadvantaged by leprosy. Many new cases are diagnosed each year and cure is now possible. There is an accent on preventing and overcoming disability and stigma, and helping with rehabilitation into the community.
The Bible Society: is committed to helping people have Bibles in their own languages. The Bible, or some part of it, is now available in over 2000 languages. A current focus is on providing scripture to sick and disabled people throughout the world. St Anne's Church had a display of Bible material on Bible Sunday.
The Barnabas Fund: assists distressed Christian minorities in the Muslim world. Food, literature, funding for buildings, training for employment and emergency relief supplies are provided. In July 2003 the Fund placed an appeal before the UN Subcommission on the Promotion and protection of Human Rights covering the suffering of converts and the Apostasy Campaign.
Restore: is a project of Birmingham Churches Together, and seeks to bring together the local refugee and host communities. It works in partnership with statutory and voluntary agencies, and provides information and training resources to those working with refugees. Restore offers a befriending service and advocacy, as well as help with practical matters.
Focus Foyer: runs a housing project for young people aged 16-25. Project workers advise clients on their benefit entitlement, and help them access education and training so they can get settled in the community. Training in the use of information technology is available on the premises for Focus Foyer and others in the community.
St Luke's Hospital: a London-based hospital providing a full range of treatment facilities to serving and retired Anglican clergy and their families, this includes some church workers and overseas clergy.
Open Christmas: is a Birmingham-based organisations which provides warmth, shelter, food and company for homeless people for 5 nights and days over each Christmas period. Chiropody, haircuts, dental care and clothing is provided. Some 200 volunteers make this possible and some funding is given from Crisis at Christmas.
Tearfund: The Evangelical Alliance Relief Fund is an evangelical Christian development and relief agency which supports 500 projects in some 70 of the world's poorest countries, and to a small extent in the UK. They work with Christian partners for people of all faiths. In disaster situations, Tearfund send their own teams of trained personnel to provide emergency relief. Tearfund Live - a presentation of their work - visited Brimingham in October 2003.
The Children's Society: works with children, young people and their families in the UK to overcome personal and social difficulties. They are highlighting the needs of young carers and running events for them. The Society is also concerned with young disabled people, with youth justice and with children who run away from home.
Church Mission Society: CMS is a mission agency involved in evangelism, community development, healthcare and educational projects in over 50 countries including Cambodia, Romania, Korea and the UK. there is a focus on empowering people on the margins of society. CMS is also involved in enabling the sharing of skills and insights of people from one country to another. St Anne's has a link with the Clarke family who are mission partners in Ghana.
Christian Aid: works through local partner organisations in some of the poorest communities in over 50 countries. It aims to help during times of crisis and with long-term development, and assists people regardless of their religion. It challenges unfair structures and is involved in the trade justice movement. St Anne's members take part in fundraising during Christian Aid week, and in campaigning activities.
Operation Christmas Child: a branch of Samaritan's Purse, a Christian relief and development agency working in many countries. At Christmas time, shoeboxes are filled with gifts for children, and are despatched to needy children, mainly in Eastern Europe. St Anne's sent 52 shoe boxes for Christmas 2003.
United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel: USPG is a missionary society which works alongside its partner churches worldwide. Church members come to do courses at its training college in Birmingham. it is active in institutions such as hospitals and babies' homes, and is also involved in HIV/AIDS work. It is currently taking part in an environmental and agricultural project in South Africa. As well as sending long-term mission partners, it arranges short-term placements overseas.
Anawim: an organisation of women working with women in the West Midlands. Support and befriending is offered to women involved in prostitution, and assistance given to those who wish to extricate themselves from this way of life. Women are offered skills training and help with child care. Visits are made to those in prison.
Amaudo Itumbauzo: works with destitute mentally ill people in Southern Nigeria, and offers medical care, accommodation, and rehabilitation to the patients. It co-ordinates the community psychiatric programme in three states so that people have access to psychiatric services. It trains nurses and volunteers in psychiatric care, and also arranges for volunteers from the UK to work in Amaudo.
Amnesty International: is a worldwide human rights movement. It seeks the release of all prisoners of conscience as long as they have not used or encouraged violence. It also works to end extrajudicial executions and "disappearances", and to abolish the death penalty, torture and other inhuman punishment. It works for fair and prompt trials for all political prisoners.
The Fireside Day Centre: offers practical support and friendship to those who are homeless, unemployed or lonely in our inner city. Food, drink, clothing and household equipment are available, as well as a number of support services including housing advice, counselling, and training.

Thanks to Elisabeth Leicester for compiling this information.

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This page was last updated on 11th February 2004