FAQs

Throughout the year Love Your Neighbour seeks to support churches and other organisations through Love Your Neighbour hubs to increase access to funding for their projects. Examples of this include:

Joint funding bids as a collective for a larger sum of money that is distributed through Love Your Neighbour hubs – Love Your Neighbour acts as the lead applicant on these funding opportunities, providing access to funding which would otherwise not be available.

Sharing local community funding opportunities – our team keep an eye out for any local funding opportunities that you would qualify for and will share these on our Love Your Neighbour Toolkit for hubs.

Love Christmas grants – through our Love Christmas campaign we support churches, with a particular focus on areas of high deprivation, in reaching their community at Christmas.

Training and advice – we seek to support churches through training sessions and advice to help churches in key areas, from new initiatives and programmes to applying for funding.

We’d love to partner with any churches which are committed to supporting those most in need in their community, and would like to join together with churches of all denominations to increase your impact and be part of a national mosaic of activity. If that’s you, you can sign up through the following form. You’ll be added to our mailing list to receive updates throughout the year and will be given access to our Love Your Neighbour Toolkit for support and advice and to see what other churches are doing in their community.

Love Your Neighbour Hubs and churches rely on the dedication and hard work of volunteers to make the difference in local communities. To volunteer with your local Love Your Neighbour hub or church please click here to see where our partners are located and register your interest directly with them.

A Love Your Neighbour church is a church of any denomination or network in the UK, who wants to engage with supporting those in need in their communities, and join together with one national voice.

Joining up with Love Your Neighbour means:

Committing to serve your local community in whatever ways your church can, focusing on crisis support, addressing root causes of crisis, and offering community-based wrap-around care.

In partnership with Love Your Neighbour, you will have access to resources, expertise and media assets to assist your outreach.

You will be invited to join national campaigns such as Love Christmas.

You will be invited to connect you with other Love Your Neighbour churches in your area, to explore working together or learn from one another.

Love Your Neighbour works through Hubs which resource the community and act as centres of excellence by:

Working in partnership with other churches, faith communities, charities, businesses, schools and other organisations to serve the local community.

Receiving early access to funding from Love Your Neighbour and distributing this funding to other partners in the city.

Engaging with the local media and press to tell the story of Love Your Neighbour in their area.

Measuring impact and sharing stories, to build up a national picture of what the Church is doing in the UK.

Being a national ambassador for Love Your Neighbour by using the Love Your Neighbour and Love Christmas branding as part of any social outreach projects.

Joining the Love Your Neighbour hubs network across the country, through Love Your Neighbour’s peer support learning community and national training.

Running high-impact programmes including crisis food provision, debt advice and employment training, alongside wrap-around community care.