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TV Bakers Martha Collison and Will Torrent team up with Tearfund to host inspiring baking events across the UK this October

15th September 201913th September 2019 Josie McFarlane 358 Views 0 Comments Baking, community, cooking, Event, fundraising, Martha Collison, Tearfund, Will Torrent

Martha Collison, the youngest ever contestant of The Great British Bake Off and Will Torrent, award-winning chocolatier and patissier will

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Lifestyle 

Church leaders’ chance to channel their inner quizmaster

30th June 201928th June 2019 Josie McFarlane 359 Views 0 Comments #Church event, Charity event, community, Faith, fundraising, God, Jesus, Quiz, Tearfund, The Big Quiz

Tearfund is offering churches a ready-made quiz to use with their congregations this November, making it easy to host a

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Lifestyle 

Chocolate expert bars himself from cocoa beans for 5 days

12th March 20198th March 2019 Josie McFarlane 366 Views 0 Comments charity, christian, cocoa beans, community, Faith, food, fundraising, no chocolate, Poverty, Tearfund, World Hunger

A leading chocolate expert will be swapping cocoa beans for pulses at the end of March as he signs up

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Charity Affairs Lifestyle 

Churchgoers Reveal Trivia Talents As Quiz Night Attracts Thousands

26th November 201823rd November 2018 Josie McFarlane 1905 Views 0 Comments #Syria, charity, Charity night, christian, Christmas, churches, community, Event, Faith, fundraising, Quiz, Refugee, Tearfund, The Big Quiz Night

Knowing the Portuguese word for apple, the host city of 2024 Summer Olympic Games or the name of Ashleigh Butler’s

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Charity Affairs Lifestyle 

Tearfund launches ‘The Big Quiz Night’ to raise funds for those living in poverty

13th November 201812th November 2018 Josie McFarlane 2170 Views 0 Comments charity, christian, Christian international, community, Event, Faith, fundraising, help, hunger, Money, Poverty, Quiz night, Tearfund

Over 1,000 UK churches sign up to take part in Tearfund’s first Big Quiz Night, a nationwide, multi-venue event to

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News 

Church turns energy supplier as millions still left without power

26th October 2018 Josie McFarlane 864 Views 0 Comments charity, church, energy supplier, help, solar panels, Tanzania, Tearfund

An Anglican diocese in Tanzania is helping its congregation get access to clean energy after predictions showed they could have

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News UK 

More than 5,500 UK churches convert to renewable energy

15th August 2018 Becky Wybrow 1385 Views 0 Comments 2buy2, Anglican cathedrals, Baptist, Big Church Switch, Bristol, British churches, catholic, christian aid, church leaders, church of England, Church of England’s Environment Programme, Clean energy, Cliamte change, fossil fuels, green electricity, Methodist, Quaker, renewable electricity, Salisbury, Salvation Army congregations, Sheffield, Tearfund, York Minster

As temperatures soar around the world, raising concerns about climate change, more than 5,500 churches have put their faith in

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News 

South East Asia Floods

22nd August 2017 Mariah 1755 Views 0 Comments affected, Asia, Bangladesh, blankets, camps, critical, destruction, emergency, flooding, hygiene kits, India, local, medical, millions, Nepal, people, severe, South East Asia, Support, Tearfund, underwater, urgent, Water, worsen

It is estimated that 16 million have been affected by severe flooding across South East Asia.  Tearfund is working with

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News 

Sierra Leone: ‘60 people have died in one church community alone’ says Tearfund Country Director

16th August 2017 Mariah 1507 Views 0 Comments bridge, church, community, died, disappeared, emergency, flooding, Freetown, government, heavy, homes, houses, liaising, love, National, priority, rainfall, schools, Sierra Leone, Tearfund, Water

A national emergency has been called in Sierra Leone after heavy rainfall in the Regent area, a mountainous town 15

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News 

MOSUL: Military campaign may be over but thousands still in need

17th July 2017 Mariah 1345 Views 0 Comments campaign, camps, city, civilians, destroyed, emergency, fled, grants, humanitarian, Iraqis, Military, Mosul, organisations, pray, psycholosocial, reality, safe, salesmen, Support, Tearfund, violent

The violent recapturing of Mosul may have come to its gritty conclusion, but for hundreds of thousands of Iraqis the

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Inspiration Lifestyle 

Great British Bake Off star Martha Collison pops corn for poverty

30th May 2017 Mariah 1714 Views 0 Comments ambassador, Big Church day Out, children, Christians, church festival, Drought, farming, food, Great British Bake Off, hunger, Malawi. Africa, Martha Collison, motivate, passion, popcorn, Poverty, struggle, survive, Tearfund, training

Tearfund ambassador calls on thousands at church festival to sign up to give Festival-goers help provide essential farming training for

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News 

High profile Christians urge U.S. leaders to tackle climate change

26th April 2017 Mariah 1847 Views 0 Comments Christian leaders, Christians, Clean energy, Climate Change, Donald Trump, Environment, Michael Gungor, Politicians, RenewOurWorld, Tearfund, US congress, Washington, William Mathews

High profile Christian leaders Michael Gungor and William Matthews are among a group who have gone to Washington’s Capitol Hill

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Churches, mosques and faith communities respond to DEC East Africa Crisis Appeal 

4th April 201723rd September 2017 admin 2110 Views 0 Comments Charities CAFOD, Chine McDonald, christian aid, DEC Charities, Donald Mavunduse, east africa crisis, eat africa crisis appeal, Faith, fundraising in the community, how to change lives, humanity, hunger, hunger crisis, Imran Madden, Islam, Islamic Relief, Jo Kitterick, Rev Sally Foster-Fulton, starvatiob, Tearfund, the truth about the third world, World Vision UK

Up and down the country supporters of the Disasters Emergency Committee’s (DEC) faith-based charities are answering the call to help

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