Farnham Christian Community Trust. FCCT
Farnham and the surrounding area has a rich heritage of Christians working together on projects that make a significant and positive difference in our community.
Whether it be among children, families, those in crisis, or the elderly, projects that mobilise Christians to work together continue to be a tangible expression of Jesus’ teaching that His disciples should be salt and light in our world.
For over a decade, FCCT has been a catalyst for collaborative christian projects. Working with most of the Farnham clergy and Church leaders, it’s the legal and charitable framework for many of the inter-church projects in the town.
Schools Work
Signposts is our inter-church collaborative schools work into 13 primary schools reaching around 3,500 children each Christmas and Easter through highly creative, age appropriate, utterly compelling and fun 50 minute presentations about what Christians believe these festivals mean. The tried and tested transition tour helps children positively move to secondary school and is an invaluable link to the Cohesion team. Cohesion is our inter-church schools work into secondary schools, reaching students in every year group through lessons, assemblies and by supporting individual students through detached youth work, coaching and mentoring. We provide specialist expertise on such topics as Communion, Worship, Churches working together, the Christian understanding of salvation, and the philosophical issues of suffering and medical ethics.
The Gathering
It’s not a joint service, or a mission, or a festival, but simply an outdoor gathering of Christians to celebrate Jesus.
Farnham Parenting
Thy Kingdom Come
Foodbank
Farnham Foodbank provides emergency food parcels for families in Farnham. In the last 12 months Foodbank has received 600 referrals from GPs, Children’s Centres and other bodies (up 20% in the last 12 months) that equates to 1800 people being fed of whom nearly a half were children. The Foodbank central store supplies food parcels to three distributions points across the town. 110 Christmas hampers were also sent our prior to Christmas.
Frontline
Frontline Farnham provides free confidential & non-judgemental financial advice, open to everyone. It is part of Frontline Debt Advice (UK), a faith based charity, formed out of a concern for the community and a conviction that we should care for one another.
Rethink
Rethink is an opportunity for people in Farnham to engage with other like minded individuals to discuss, discover and explore some of the fundamental questions of life, in a variety of fun, informal, intellectual or practical ways.
Friends Together
Coping with bereavement can be difficult, whether it is the bereaved individual or their family and friends trying to help those in grief. Friends Together aims to provide a safe place for recently bereaved people to talk and come to terms with their loss. So that when you lose a loved one, you don't have to be alone.
Love in Action
The Love in Action campaign is an invitation to all Christians in Farnham to make a difference in our town. Local Churches achieve a lot through their own projects and ministry, however some projects are done more effectively and efficiently in collaboration - the Love in Action campaign celebrates this fact!
Rethink
Rethink is an opportunity for people in Farnham to engage with other like minded individuals to discuss, discover and explore some of the fundamental questions of life, in a variety of fun, informal, intellectual or practical ways.
Smaller & emerging projects...
FCCT also provides administrational support services for other smaller projects where Churches want to work together.
If you have an idea for an inter-church project, please email your ideas to office@fcct.support and how you would see the project working.
