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"Success and Separation" This page has all the information we have from the congress workshops, seminars and talks. You can use the index below to try and find the exact page you are looking for, or just begin here, and work your way through all the material. The idea is to present a full picture of the congress, and all it involved. We hope to gradually build up the base of available information, and so if you can contribute then we would love to hear from you ..... Congress report [ PDF version ]
Site visit report [ PDF version ]
Keynote speakers notes
Photographs from the congress - click here to begin slideshow
Seminar/workshop/smallgroup reports A wide variety of seminars, workshops and small group sessions took place during the Congress. To see a complete list click here. Budget To see the budget for the Leeds congress - click here. Feedback summary report [ PDF version | MS Word 97/00 version ] A summary of the results from the evaluation/feedback forms handed in after the congress. |
The setting for around 200 congress delegates from all branches of the Christian church and from cities the length and breadth of the UK to explore the theme of “Success and Separation” was Leeds and Bradford – two interlinked Yorkshire cities. Leeds is proud of its city centre development and the 24/7 character that it is developing, but for some that same development has created “no go” areas. Leeds is successful as a centre of finance, shopping and tourism but there are also many people living in areas which are among the poorest 10% of the UK population. There are large numbers of people from different ethnic backgrounds in Leeds and Bradford which as cities have a positive multicultural outlook, but over the summer there had been simmering discontent and riots in Bradford and Leeds which were connected to issues of race and poverty.....
A central part of the Urban Mission Congress has always been visiting the city and in Leeds we extended our visits from church and community projects as we had done in previous congresses to take in local businesses, visitor attractions, services and community groups run by secular and other faith groups. This sometimes gave us contrasting visits as groups went from a project working with the poorest and most excluded to the office of the director of a company with a multinational operation, or into a boardroom where policies were being made about the people they had just left. Other times the visits complemented each other as groups saw how the different businesses and projects worked for the benefit of their community perhaps from different starting points, but with similar ends in mind.......
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