Mark Cowling
Mark Cowling joined Gather Movement in 2022 to support the Movement for Recovery project across the Metro Mayor regions. Previously he spent fifteen years being an Anglican church leader, much of it in the more deprived parts of the North West. He has helped steer a borough wide unity movement called Passion for Bolton developing a ten-year-plus vision of a united church playing its part in the borough to see social, cultural and spiritual transformation of our communities. He also acts as Kintsugi Hope Mental Health and Wellbeing representative for Gather Movement.
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31 October 2022Churches in Greater Manchester are mapping food provision offered in every church in each of the ten boroughs of the region. Piloted in the summer, this is now being overlaid with a map of the postcodes of children on free school meals to reveal the “gaps” in our communities and is becoming the basis of a cross-sector funding offer for churches to provide some of the solutions to food security this coming winter. It’s commonly said that William Beveridge’s report in 1942 which heralded the…
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