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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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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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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Common Good Schools new website

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

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Schools, the Common Good and the Holy Spirit

Jo explores how schools filled with the Holy Spirit can seed renewal in the local by building relationships, and she shares the latest on our schools network…

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The Importance of Relationships

The importance of relationships in building common good requires a wider understanding of diversity, as Jo Stow reports…

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Young people and the desire for connection

Trends show a sharp decline in social trust among young people. Our Common Good Schools is an antidote, as Jo Stow reports…

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Common Good Schools: Dec 2022

Our Common Good Schools Project Leader, Jo Stow reports on a young people thriving using our SEN resources…

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Common Good Schools: June 2022

Meet our Common Good Schools Project Leader, Jo Stow and hear her vision for schools becoming hubs in their communities…

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