Lozells Methodist Church & Community Centre

The Lozells Methodist Church and community Centre cordially invites you to join us for our end of year Christmas lunch which will be taking place on Wednesday, the 12th of December, 2018 from 12pm to 2pm (flyer attached).
As another year draws near, we would like to celebrate and share with you, our work, our passion, and our mission. We will be honouring and thanking all who have contributed in making a success of our efforts in the community.
Our success with our diverse et...hnic and faith communities is a testament of the positives of working together, building positive relationships, and bringing about decent change in challenging times.
We urge you to come and share with us prayers, food and, your thoughts as we look to the coming year filled with hope for more progress and achievements together.
As usual, we encourage all to bring and share food, drinks, and your thoughts.
Please R.S.V.P re your attendance and contribution.
Thank you.
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Our 'Jewels in Lozells' project is sadly in it's last week and the ladies have been hard at work finishing their last work. Here you can see their efforts, making cakes and cushions in the respective cake & sewing classes. They have written many positive testimonials about their experiences during the project. However, we still have a long waiting list of participants and we are still appealing on their behalf for funding to start a new empowerment project in the coming year.... We are actively looking for funders to restart this project that is not only empowering, it promotes community cohesion and, building of lasting positive relationships regardless of faiths or ethnicities. If you know of any individuals or organisations that would be interested in supporting us, then by all means, get in touch. Lozells Methodist Church & Community Centre - In the Community for the Community.
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These smiling faces are from participants and tutor of our cake classes which is a part of our 'Jewels in Lozells' project, which has been running for a record 3 years now. It has empowered all of its participants (over 200 so far) to learn vocational skills, build confidence, and has encouraged community cohesion in a diverse community of faiths and ethnicities. Sadly, this project is ending soon. However, due to demand, and long waiting list, we're seeking further funding to restart the project next year. We're very grateful to our past and current funders, the People's Health trust and Awards for All for all their support. If you would like to get involved in supporting this project next year, please get in touch and play your part in putting a smile on many more faces. Thank you. #awardsforall #peopleshealthtrust #jewelsinlozells

We're happy to share some good news! We got this lovely cake from Mrs. X (real name withheld), who we have been supporting with benefits and housing issues. She lives with her two young children and wasn't getting any housing benefit and was sinking into heavy debt because of her rent arrears. We got her to see our benefits adviser who quickly got in touch with housing benefit to sort out her complex and complicated issues (it took about a month!), with the help of a voluntee...r to interprete. We also have her food vouchers to get by during the time it took. So today she walked with her award letter which states that her housing benefit would be paid and has been back dated all the way to August 2018! She's chuffed and says a big thank you to the Centre, staff, and volunteers for all that we do! We are really happy for her and honoured to be appreciated in this way. Now it's time to put the kettle on and make some tea, we've got a cake waiting!
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One of our proud ladies showing off the beautiful pillow that she made during our weekly sewing class #jewelsinlozells

On Tuesday the 7th August 2018, we were honoured to have hosted a visit by Lord Nick Bourne, Minister for Faith & Parliamentary Under-Secretary of Wales. Lord Bourne arrived at about 11:45 am and was quickly introduced to the Minister of the Church and co-superintendent of the Birmingham Methodist Circuit, Reverend Alison Richards; the centre manager, Eddy Aigbe; Rabiyah Latif, the coordinator of the event from Near Neighbours; volunteers, and community of local residents, an...d leaders who came specially to welcome him.
After the introductions, Rev. Alison Richards talked about Lozells Methodist Church and the work at the centre. Lord Bourne stepped forward to thank us for the warm welcome and to talk about his #FaithTour2. He, his entourage, and members of the community that came to greet him were taken on a tour of the building. Lord Bourne was shown around and was informed about all the services and projects (past and present) that the community centre provided.
After the tour, Lord Bourne and guests were served refreshments in the Church. He then gave a vote of thanks for the warm welcome, the tour, and the work that the Church and Centre are doing. He gave his approval of the work that we were doing in and for the community and encouraged us to continue. Members of his entourage also gave their approval and spoke highly about the many services, spaces, and projects that we provided to the community. We, in turn, thanked them for the visit and hoped that and our funders will continue working with us to help maintain and provide more to the community.
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Our 5th Lozells Community Arts and Crafts Exhibition 2018. Thanking all the schools, funding organizations ( Near Neighbours Birmingham and Awards for All) and individual artists and crafts people who showed their work. Also thanking the visitors for their positive comments and encouragement.

Dear Esteemed Colleagues, Sponsors & Partners of LMCC,
Once again it is our great pleasure to announce that we will be having our Annual Lozells Community Arts & Crafts Exhibition 2018. This will be our 5th exhibition thus far. We want to use this opportunity to say a big thank you to the residents of Lozells, exhibitors, participants, sponsors, and partners for funding and supporting us.
This year, we are expecting more artists, schools, craftsmen & women, to join us to cele...brate, experience a community of talent, cohesion,
We invite all, to come, experience, and celebrate our event which showcases the talents of our community's artists, craftsmen/women that forever aims to, foster an understanding of our diversity, nurture community cohesion, to encourage and develop creativity in all communities.
We also use this opportunity to call on all interested artists and craftspeople, to avail themselves of the opportunity to showcase their talent with their work.
Please see and distribute our flyer and guidelines for exhibitors in the files attached (image of the flyer is just below this email).
We look forward to welcoming you to the event. Please feel free to share with your contacts. To contact us for more information and/or enquiries via, phone (Ext.1) or email: info@lozellsmc.co.uk. Thank you.
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Our art classes with just three weeks left, has been a huge hit in our community, they were busy during the last session making 'tie & dye' & painting their designs on t-shirts! You can see from their expressions how they felt afterwards. Come and join us for the next class, call or come to our reception to book your place. We are proudly sponsored by Near Neighbours Birmingham

Our weekly sewing classes are empowering women to learn a hobby/vocation while at the same time encouraging confidence building and making great friendships. We are proudly sponsored by Awards For All.

Our cake class is a big hit in the community! More and more people are benefiting from our free cake classes. Here are some photos from last week's class. Will be posting photos from our sewing class soon... Grateful to Awards For All for their sponsorship. Lozells Methodist Community Centre

Our art classes provide not only a place to develop our community's creative side, it's also a place where people meet, make friends, share stories, and to generally have fun in a Place of Welcome Thanking our funding providers Near Neighbours Birmingham again for all their support.

Cake class is going really well. Cup cakes galore all Wednesday and today. Participants are getting more confident and making new friends by the week #awardsforall

Our Near Neighbours Birmingham funded art and craft classes have started off in earnest. We have had a good response so far, We've had 18 participants of different ages, and religions in the last two weeks since we started. If you like fun, making art, sharing stories, and making friends, then come and join us. Date: Every Wednesday Time: 10:30am
*Please note that most participants have requested not to be photographed

Meena Centre, a centre for asylum seeking and refugee women and children in Hockley, Birmingham are about to open and are looking for volunteers (see flyer below) The 'Unofficial' Women and Children's Centre