Reverse Advent Calendar 2020: Day 29

01/12/2020 | Reform

Médecins Sans Frontières 

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) provides emergency assistance to people affected by conflict, epidemics and disasters, without discrimination and irrespective of race, religion, gender or political affiliation. They work in over 70 countries and go to places where … Read More

Reverse Advent Calendar 2020: Day 8

01/12/2020 | Reform

Home for Good

Sadly, for thousands of children Christmas is not a time of joy.  This Christmas there will be around 100,000 children in the UK who are classified as looked-after away from home. We need to find more safe … Read More

Reverse Advent Calendar 2020: Day 26

01/12/2020 | Reform

All We Can

Let it sew this Christmas! For £31, you can give an Extraordinary Gift and help a teenage mum like Maureen in Uganda to start her own sewing business. Your gift will help provide the training and materials … Read More

Do stay for tea and coffee: “I’ll be home for Christmas,” so the song goes. Won’t we all?’

01/12/2020 | Reform

Paul Kerensa shares Covid-safe Christmas ideas

A couple of months ago in this column, I asked for your outside-the-box ideas to light up this bleak midwinter. If we can’t sing in church, if the Rule of Six-Geese-a-Laying means no big … Read More

On the pilgrim way: ‘Is this meeting a new kind of witness?’

01/12/2020 | Reform

Sheila Maxey finds hope before lockdown

There is nothing like something new to cheer me up as I begin to face the fact that we might be in this Covid-19 world for a long, long time. In early October, we … Read More

I am… a prisoner’s mentor

01/12/2020 | Reform

A story of mentoring after prison

When most people think about volunteering to help others, prisoners aren’t often the ‘others’ they choose. You only have to read the news to discover that most people think prisoners are ‘bad people’ who … Read More