A charity’s support for disabled people in
churches across the UK is being trebled,
thanks to a £150,000 grant from Benefact
Trust. It will mean that disability inclusion
charity Through the Roof will be able to
increase the number of disabled people it
can support from 9,000 to 30,000 within
just three years.
The additional
funds will be used
to
recruit three regional co-ordinators to build
up local Roofbreaker networks of volunteers
across the UK; provide specialist resources
and support; and help disabled Christians
in
leading
training and organise events.
According to the Lausanne Committee for
World Evangelization, just five to ten per cent
of disabled people ever hear the gospel in
their lifetime.
Ozanne funding
Nicola Laver
The Ozanne Foundation, headed by LGBT
campaigner Jayne Ozanne, has received
financial support from the government.
Accounts for the charity reveal a £137,500
grant
from
the Foreign Commonwealth
and Development Office
(FCDO)
for a
recent
two-day conference of
the Global
Interfaith Commission of LGBT+ Lives of
which Ozanne is director. It was held last
December – and hosted by the FCDO in
its Locarno Suite. The same month, Ozanne
put out a call on Twitter for donations. She
said: ‘Things really are quite dire funding-wise at the moment.’
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