Find out more about some of our speakers at From the Ground Up: Unearthing hope and seeking justice. Haven’t book your ticket yet? Head over to Eventbrite to secure your spot. Click here for ticket bookings.
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Emma Revie is CEO of the Trussell Trust, which supports the UK’s biggest network of foodbanks to provide emergency food and support to people locked in poverty. Its vision is for a future without the need for foodbanks, and it works to bring this vision about. Emma has worked in the charity sector for a number of years, previously at the youth charity Ambition and Tearfund.
How does a network of over 1200 foodbanks help to bring about the eradication of poverty in the UK from the ground up? We’ll be digging deeper with Emma in our opening panel. |
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Bishop Mike Royal takes up the post of General Secretary of Churches Together in England in March 2022. Mike was previously Co-Chief executive of The Cinnamon Network, a charity helping churches across Britain and Ireland with community engagement and social action projects. He is a founding trustee and former National Director of Transforming Lives for Good, which works with children and young people at risk of exclusion from school. He’s been in ordained ministry since 1993 and was consecrated as a Bishop in the Apostolic Pastoral Congress in 2016.
Where is the church called to organise and speak up for justice and peace? Bishop Mike will lead our closing plenary session, helping us to reflect on what we’ve heard and learnt, and where our next steps might take us. |
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Zrinka Bralo is CEO at Migrants Organise, which provides a platform for refugees and migrants to organise for power, dignity and justice. Its big vision is an inclusive and welcoming society with a fair immigration system, and it wants to build a platform with lived experience at the centre to deliver change. Zrinka is a journalist from Sarajevo and has been involved with refugee and human rights since she was exiled from Bosnia in 1993. She is also founder of the Women on the Move awards.
Where’s the power in organising with lived experience at the centre? During our opening panel discussion, we’ll invite Zrinka to help us explore how the current climate for refugees and asylum seekers in the UK can be shifted by working together. |
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Revd Al Barrett is Rector of Hodge Hill Church in east Birmingham, a partnership between the URC and Church of England. He’s also a co-convener for the locally-rooted Common Ground Community. His recent book ‘Being Interrupted: Reimaging the Church’s mission from the Outside, In’ calls the church to open a door to a creative disruption of the status quo.
Where might the Church be disrupted by what the people on the margins of our communities have to tell us? Al will join our opening panel to help us consider how we might be changed by being open to the gift of the community around us. |
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Marsha De Cordova has been the Labour Party MP for Battersea since her election in 2017. She was the Shadow Secretary of State for Women and Equalities between April 2020 and September 2021. Marsha is also a vice-chair of Christians in Parliament, and before entering parliament she worked in the charity sector for 10 years, campaigning on the issue of social security.
As people of faith, how can connecting our call for justice with parliamentary structures and procedures be a route to change? We’ll hear from Marsha about her experience on both sides of the table during our afternoon panel. |
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