The Caleb Drugs Project is now truly city-wide in its client base, with funding not only from Europe but also from Primary Care Trusts and Safer Communities. There are approximately 20 people on the programme each week at the Caleb Building. A new aspect of the work has been a worker from Caleb being involved in Wyke and Woodside areas. Those involved from Prayer for Bradford are Howard Astin and now Mick Murphy in Wyke.

There are now two CAP centres in Bradford.
One based at St John's, Bowling serves the south of Bradford i.e. BD 4, 5, 6, 7 & 12.
The other is based at the Light Church and serves other areas of Bradford.
The workers go and visit those who are having trouble with debt, and the central organisation of CAP in Bradford is used to regulate this and bring people out of debt and tell them the about Gospel.

Main Meeting is on Friday nights at the Discovery Centre, Sherborne Road.
Aims are.. 1) to show friendship to international students who can experience culture shock, loneliness and confusion when in the UK; and.. 2) to share Christianity with students coming to the cafe. The way we do so is through Bible studies, talks and cultural events at the cafe and most importantly one to one friendship with team members. Christians of any denomination can volunteer to help subject to an application form, references and their agreement to a statement of faith.

HCJB Global is an international media and healthcare mission.
The UK office, based in Bradford, has a passion for getting creative Christian radio programming onto commercial radio stations under the name Whistling Frog Productions.
Every Sunday morning between 6 and 10am Colin Lowther hosts "The Full Breakfast" on Pulse 2 - which can be heard on 1275Mw and on digital radio in the Bradford area. Christian groups can email info@hcjb.org.uk to get key events advertised. .

Audiopot.org is an award winning website where Creative Christian Audio can be downloaded for use in Churches, Schools ... oh, and on the radio! Why not do something different with your sermon or small group? Much of the audio is produced by the Radio Volunteers Group who get together every Tuesday evening to brainstorm, create, write, produce and final edit audio to communicate God in creative ways. Anyone interested in joining the team can email for further information - no existing skills needed - we can train anyone with a heart for radio mission.
email audiopot

“Healing on the Streets”, as a model for city centre prayer, was pioneered by a Vineyard church in Coleraine Northern Ireland.  They provide training materials and a program to follow that seems an ideal resource for groups of churches working together. Using this model, a number of churches in Bradford are planning to work together to provide weekly teams in Centenary Square that offer prayer, and specifically prayer for healing, to those shopping in the city centre. Starting in February 2010, the teams will meet every Saturday from 11 am and pray until 11.30 am. They will then set up a row of 4 chairs in Centenary Square, next to a 5m banner with “Healing” written down it.  From 11.30 am until 1 pm the team is available to pray with passers-by.  There will be small flyers that explain who we are and what we are doing, but the approach is very relaxed.  The team are there in the presence of God to bless the city centre, and as a witness to the extraordinary love of God for people.  When people receive prayer they are given a short follow-up letter, with details of local churches, and will be sign-posted to one in their area.  This letter will be in an envelope also containing a copy of the ‘Why Jesus?’ booklet.. For more information please contact Cassie Biggin. cassiebiggin@gmail.com Tel 07814041901.

The Inn Churches Project is a  Winter Emergency Shelter-4 week pilot project providing 8 beds per night for homeless men and women at rotating churches near the city centre.  Evening and breakfast meals will be provided as well as friendship and support. We plan to open 1 February 2010.
If you or your church would like to be involved by: volunteering as a befriender; cooking or serving meals; aiding with laundry; donating bedding, towels, and toiletries; overnight care; transport assistance; or acting as a host church one night… Then please contact Shawna Splawn on 07852137287 or shawna.splawn@bradford.anglican.org.

Started in 2005 Kidz Klub has approximately 110 - 150 children between 7 and 11 years old come to the venue, St Stephen's Church in West Bowling, each Saturday morning. They are also visited in their homes each week. Peter Shields is the full-time co-ordinator and is helped by Chris Williams, who is doing Transform this year and this is his placement. Those involved from Prayer for Bradford are Jimmy Hinton, Paul Deo and Howard Astin.

Media Hub

The Bradford Media Hub offers a free service to both the media and the church in Bradford to aid communication.
They help the media get to know what the church is really doing and put them in touch with people who are newsworthy and worth interviewing.
They help the churches recognise when they have a story and help them to share it. They work with newspapers, BBC and commercial local radio, Look North and Calendar and use the internet.
They search for opportunities for the church, and it helps the staff-stretched media along the way. Visit www.mediahub.org.uk or email info@mediahub.org.uk for more information.

Ministry amongst Asians in Bradford (MAB)
Tel. 665109

MAB seeks to stimulate evangelism amongst the Asians of Bradford and particularly seeks to help local churches in this. In future it hopes to have link persons in each of the churches. It also seeks to relate to the Asian Christians across Bradford who are at present meeting in the Asian Christian Fellowship and also in the group at St Paul's, Manningham, who hold a meeting in Urdu language. Those from Prayer for Bradford on the Steering Group are Philip Dyson,  and Kathryn Carlton.

Real Hope
Tel. 595533

Real Hope meets each Wednesday night at Sunbridge Road Mission and is led by Geoff and Sheila Wilson. It is an outreach to the needy, homeless, addicts and those caught up in prostitution in the city. It provides a meal plus Christian witness to this group. Alan and Bev Gregory also have a ministry to the prostitutes through the week and will have a Transform worker with them this coming year.

Bradford University & Bradford College have a combined Christian Union with have a combined Christian Union with an Executive Committee that changes each year. Students from the University and College go to a number of churches across the city. There is an advisory group which includes people from Prayer for Bradford such as Howard Astin, Bob Carlton, Philip Dyson and Terry Henry. Their role is to provide ongoing guidance and support to the Executive Committee as they seek to equip Christian students and evangelise others.

The vision of Transform is to see people take a "year in" as a sort of gap year where they give a year to either of the cities of Bradford or Leeds. At present there are 8 people on the team, 3 from Bradford and 5 from Leeds, with 2 co-ordinators, one for Bradford and one for Leeds. Ruth Perrin is the overall co-ordinator, who in future will take responsibility for Bradford. The programme is each week a day of discipleship, two days on a placement and two days working for money to help support themselves. Various placements are such as Kidz Klub, Caleb Drugs Project, Leeds Faith in Schools, Welcome to Leeds Asylum Work, Youth Base, etc. Those on the Steering Group from Prayer for Bradford are Terry Henry and Howard Astin.

The trust was set up over 20 years ago to facilitate the social action projects emanating from St John's Bowling Bradford. It has 4 major thrusts namely:
BD4 Family supporting and instigating help for families in the area of south Bradford,
Gems that works with the Older generation  in this same area with walking groups, shopping at Asda by its bus run, indoor bowls , luncheon club, cell groups etc.,
Youth Base that does detached youthwork and schools work, and finally Caleb Drugs Project that works across Bradford helping folks into recovery from addiction. (See above) Contact number for