The church and community-based economic initiatives 1980-1990

The thesis is about my work as a local economic development consultant working for Linking Up Interfaith based at the Manchester diocese Board for Social Responsibility. Linking Up interfaith worked across the country helping faith communities to create projects which would address problems of poverty and unemployment. We worked mainly in urban priority areas with a wide range of faiths and in cooperation with the Inner Cities Religious Council a government funded body. The thesis records many of the projects we helped to set up. The archive of papers relating to Linking Up and its projects and staff were deposited by me to Selly Oak College Birmingham now part of Birmingham University.