Holiday Activity Fund launch 2025
2025-02-11 18:00 - 20:00 UTC | Cuthbet House, Stonebridge, Durham, Tyne and Wear, DH1 3RY, United Kingdom
An invitation to come along to our launch event for the 2025 holiday activity fund. As in previous years Communities Together Durham have funding available to give to parishes wishing to organise holiday activities for the children in their parishes. Come along and we will talk you through the process and share ideas of good practice, what has worked and not worked and give you an opportunity to network with others who have run holiday activities over recent years. Refreshments will be provided.
Please book using this link

Prison Chaplaincy Networking Event
2025-03-13 17:30 - 19:00 | Cuthbet House, Stonebridge, Durham, Tyne and Wear, DH1 3RY, United Kingdom
An evening for Prison Chaplains to get together and share their experiences of working inside a prison. The evening is intended to give space to those working in this unique setting and to facilitate discussion around what support for Prison Chaplains could look like. Food will be provided.

Please book using this link

Mental Health First Aid Training - An Introduction - Norton session
2025-06-04 10:00 - 14:00
Come and join us for an eye-opening session on mental health first aid. Learn how to provide initial support to someone experiencing mental health challenges. This session with Dave Burke, an accredited MH first aid trainer, delivers an introduction to how we might respond to people we meet in the course of our community activities who are struggling with their mental health. Dave’s training comes from a Christian perspective and will be useful to staff and volunteers who are running drop-ins, food provision and many other activities where we meet people who may be in crisis. Together, let’s learn to be more confident in how we support people struggling with mental health issues, and appropriately signpost to the help they need.
There are two sessions available (content will be the same at each session):
Book here for 4th June, St Mary’s Parish Centre, Norton, 10am-2pm
Book here for 25th June, Parish Centre, Chester le Street, 9am-1pm

Challenge Poverty: The Negative Narrative Toolkit
2025-06-07 10:00 - 15:30 | Chester le Street Parish Centre
Challenge Poverty The Negative Narrative Tool Kit – The Pilot, June 7th 10am – 3:30pm
Chester le Street Parish Centre.
This is a one day one off “course” to be a pilot and if successful will be released for parishes to deliver.
We are looking for participants to attend the day to critique the tool kit. You would come and give your feedback on the content during the day and essentially answer the question – Does it do what it is hoping to do?
There will be 20 places MAX: to book, please use the link below to sign up:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/challenge-poverty-the-negative-narrative-tool-kit-the-pilot-tickets-1280602419309?aff=oddtdtcreator

Community Development Workers
2025-06-12 10:00 - 14:00 | Merryoaks Community Hall, Park House Road, Durham, DH1 3QF
Open to all Christian Community Development workers, or volunteers with a co-ordinating role in a community project. Join us on 12th June for mutual support, inspiration and a chance to hear Bishop Rob Wickham, CEO of the Church Urban Fund, speak on community development work.
Event timetable:
10:00am – Arrival and refreshments
10:15am – 11.15am – Speaker – Bishop Rob Wickham
11:30am-12:15pm – Workshop/Shared wisdom conversation 1
12:15pm-1:00pm – Workshop/Shared wisdom conversation 2
1:00pm-2:00pm – Lunch and networking time
To book please use the link:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/community-workers-get-together-tickets-1244934184659?aff=oddtdtcreator

Mental Health First Aid - an introduction - Chester le Street session
2025-06-25 09:00 - 13:00 | Chester le Street Parish Centre

Financial Inclusion - What Can Churches Do?
2025-06-25 19:00 - 21:00 | Cuthbet House, Stonebridge, Durham, Tyne and Wear, DH1 3RY, United Kingdom
Wednesday 25th March, 7pm-9pm, Cuthbert House
PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF DATE TO 25th JUNE 2025
An event to find out more about available models that can be used by churches, to help those in need of support with debt and finances. Representatives from CAP, Community Money Advice and Just Finance Foundation will join us to talk about what they can offer churches working with them, and representatives from local churches with everything from debt centres to light-touch signposting at drop-ins and foodbanks will talk about their experiences. Many churches feel debt support is outside of their capabilities, but there are things we can do that don’t require such high levels of resource, and support is available from various agencies to get new projects off the ground, or develop existing ones. Join us to find out more on 25th June 2025, 7pm-9pm at Cuthbert House. Clergy, staff, PCCs and other volunteers are all invited to come along and explore this vital work, and how we can help you set up and develop it.
Sign up using this link

Holiday Club Thank You Event
2025-09-09 17:00 - 18:30 | Diocese of Durham Office, Cuthbert House, Durham, DH1 3RY
A thank you event for all of the staff and volunteers who have run Summer Holiday activity clubs. We want to invite you to an informal thank you evening where we can get together, share the highlights and future plans over a cup of tea, sandwiches and cake.

Heart on the Terrace Murton Re -Launch Event
2025-10-01 10:00 - 14:00 | Heart on the Terrace, 8 Woods Terrace Street, Murton, SR7 9AA
Join us for the re- launch of Heart on the Terrace Murton. Come along to find out more about this great community project. Drinks and lunch will be provided. Hope to see you there!

Come & Share - Harvest Reflections @ Christ Church Felling
2025-10-08 18:30 - 20:00 | Christ Church Felling, Carlisle Street, Felling, NE10 0HQ
How important is food in our communities and in the gospel?
Come and explore these questions, bring your stories and some food to share around the table. Discuss why and how the church is called to respond to the hungry. Hosted by Claire Estall, Development Worker at Communities Together Durham.
Book your place here.
This event is part of a series of events culminating in a Food Summit to be held in Durham on 14 March 2026.

Come & Share - Harvest Reflections @ St Thomas Pennywell
2025-10-16 18:00 - 19:30 | St Thomas, Petersfield Road, Sunderland, SR4 9BD, United Kingdom

Come & Share Harvest Reflections - St Cuthbert's Darlington
2025-10-29 18:00 - 20:00

Come & Share - Cuthbert House Durham
2025-11-06 18:00 - 19:30 | Diocese of Durham Office, Cuthbert House, Durham, DH1 3RY

Community Workers Gathering
2025-11-11 13:00 - 16:00 | Hope4All, St Thomas Church, Sunderland, SR4 9BD
Join us for our next Community Workers Gathering with inspiring speaker Andrew Forsey OBE, National Director of Feeding Britain.

Come & Share - St Aidan's Hartlepool
2025-11-12 18:00 - 19:30 | St Aidans Hartlepool, 36 Newark Road, TS25 2JX

The Food Summit 2026
2026-03-14 09:30 - 16:00
The Food Summit will be a fantastic opportunity to meet with colleagues from across the region to explore alternative provision of food which goes ‘Beyond FoodBanks’ . An opportunity to give churches and charity organisations a menu of opportunities to investigate different approaches to using food for community building and meet local needs of those experiencing food insecurity.
