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Sammy Jordan the Director of Hope for Every Home at Hope Together is excited about partnerships… I love a good partnership and life is full of them. Where would Woody be without Buzz? Ant without Dec? Harry without Hermione? It’s not just people either. I’m a...

A Cinnamon Social Action Audit was instrumental in building unity between churches in Gainsborough and opening opportunities for partnerships beyond the faith community.

Street Storage provides free, safe, and accessible storage to people experiencing homelessness along with one-to-one advocacy, street outreach and emergency response. Founder Rachel Woolf shares the developments that have taken place since the organisation were...

We chat with Purple Shoots to find out how the Incubator Competition has opened new opportunities.  Purple Shoots provide business advice and small, ethical loans to help individuals to start businesses. They also set up and facilitate self-reliant groups, where...

It's been a hectic three years for Nottingham-based Matt Parfitt. Back in 2020, Matt won our Incubator Competition with Radiant Cleaners a cleaning enterprise with a mission to employ those facing barriers to work. Since then he's gone on to found a network of...

Watnall Road Baptist Church are building strong partnerships to increase their reach and impact across Nottingham.

COVID has been a watershed moment for many of us. We have been excited to support Bridge Community Church in Bury St Edmunds as they’ve been rethinking their community engagement.

Great ideas need to be shared! We love the willingness of Restore Church Boston to share its journey of community development with others. When we first met Restore Church in Boston in the summer of 2021, they were already pretty busy. With a soup kitchen, four...

Sheringham Lighthouse Church has expanded its work in the community by developing close partnerships with a whole range of organisations. Here at Cinnamon, we love funding great projects through our MicroGrants, but we also love to provide ideas, resources and...

Paul Stevenson, Director for Homeless Prevention at the charity Bethany Christian Trust, explores how churches can build strong partnerships that leverage the great gifts God has given them.

Churches need to innovate and think differently if they want to respond effectively to the new wave of social challenges.

There is no doubt that our lives have been dominated by Covid-19 over the past couple of years. Personally, I have experienced dramatic changes in all aspects of life including work, church, and family. There was a lot of talk about Covid-19 being a great leveller....

As our nation faces challenges on a scale we’ve never seen before, do we need to reconsider what it means to be church in the community?

Health has been front and foremost of our minds over the last few years. While COVID has dominated headlines, our mental health has greatly suffered too.

Sam Colbourn Leach from CAP explains how the cost of living crisis is impacting families across the nation and how churches can respond.

Cinnamon Recommended Project, Welcome Churches, share how they are helping churches to support Ukrainian refugees. Find out what your church can do.

This Easter, make time to stop and feel the pain of the cross. It may just transform what you do next.

Navigating conflict with a healthy attitude can enable church communities to be a place where all can grow and flourish.

Reverend Cassius Francis, Church Trainer & Resourcer with Loss and HOPE, explores how churches can support those who are grieving.

Unless our social action projects are addressing trauma, we’ll fail to help people move forward.