News & VIEWS

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Common Good Schools Autumn 2024

Jo Stow shares our Autumn update, with four new partners joining, each using the programme creatively in their context…

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Schools: resource for Advent

A free resource to equip children and young people to build the common good this Advent…

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Written in blood – a Meditation

Jenny Sinclair gives a lecture in Malta – on the causes of our malaise and what it means to be dedicated to justice and peace, to live a life “written in blood”…

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Common Good Schools Summer 2024

Jo Stow shares our Summer update, with a note of achievements this year and a special poem…

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Common Good Schools Pentecost 2024

Jo Stow shares our Pentecost update in which we welcome a multi academy trust and our partners share stories of local relationship building…

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The importance of reciprocity

Jo Stow reflects on the importance of face-to-face reciprocal relationships, and the latest news on our Common Good Schools network…

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Who is my neighbour?

Jo Stow launches a free Lent resource and shares the latest on our network of Common Good schools…

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Rebel with a cause

The story of T4CG, as told by Jenny Sinclair, exploring its origins in Liverpool, its work today, and why the common good is needed in an age of cultural and social unravelling…

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Catalyst for Renewal

Our Director Jenny Sinclair gives a short presentation about the work of T4CG at a Centesimus Annus workshop…

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Common Good Schools new website

Jo Stow launches a new website for our Common Good Schools programme and shares an update on our partners…

The future of UK Christian social action
As poverty gets worse, how should the church respond?Read More
Poverty – under our own roof
For Lent, Jo Stow encourages schools to take a more relational approach to charity and to notice hidden poverty in the classroom Read More
T4CG at Word on Fire
Jenny Sinclair speaks about the Bible, the common good and Catholic Social Teaching at the Word on Fire conference 2025Read More
Staying Human: Reimagining the Spirit of the Commons
In the emerging new era, people feel a loss of agency. How should the church respond? Luke Bretherton gives the first T4CG public lecture of 2025Read More
Forgive each other
The T4CG Lent 2025 Newsletter. In this time of seismic change, we must resist division and work togetherRead More