Church resources
Find resources to support you and your church grow an awareness and understanding of the problem of poverty in the UK, and to help you reflect on how the Christian faith can shape our response.
Guarantee our Essentials resources
Encourage your church and community to add their voices to our campaign to Guarantee our Essentials. Use them at events, in church services, as part of Bible studies, or share them with your community.
- A Shared Voice film – a powerful video you can share with your church to introduce the campaign.
- Church information pack (PDF) – everything you need to get your church onboard.
- Church action poster (PDF) – a poster you can display to direct people to our action page.
- Campaign film – a video that explores the Essentials Guarantee in more detail.
- It Doesn’t Add Up activity (PDF) – print these receipt postcards for your session.
- It Doesn’t Add Up guide (PDF) – notes on how to run this activity.
- Community campaign boards (PDF) – spread the word and gather support.
- Presentation slides (PowerPoint) – help explain the campaign to your community.
- Bible study (PDF) – reflect on justice, the Bible and the campaign.
- Sample sermons (Word) – talks for you to adapt for your church.
Study resources
Use these session plans for individual or group reflection to explore our work and vision. Find out how we can build a future where everyone can afford life’s essentials, and how this is guided and shaped by Christian values and practice.
- A Shared Journey (PDF) – stories and prayers from people with lived experience of hardship.
- Prayer films – download and share the videos from A Shared Journey.
- Conversation starter cards – explore key issues around justice and poverty.
- Values course (PDF) – explore compassion, justice, dignity and community.
- Micah 6:8 church audit (by Jubilee+) – reflect on where you are as a church with justice, compassion and community, and plan where you’d like to go next.
- Jubilee+ booklets – prayerfully take action in these three areas:
– Justice booklet (PDF)
– Compassion booklet (PDF)
– Community booklet (PDF)
Seasonal resources
Resources to use at key points in the church calendar. They can help you explore our work, and how your church can support campaigning and your local food bank.
- Trussell Tables (PDF) – ideas and resources to help you include more of your community during Harvest Festival.
- Church Ambassador calendar (PDF) – 12 ideas for other activities and events your church could host.
Become a Church Ambassador
Our Micah 6:8 vision invites churches to join us in acting justly, loving mercy and walking humbly. If you’d like your church to be part of this, you can sign up to be a Trussell Trust Church Ambassador.
Ambassadors help us take action against hunger and poverty by inspiring people in their church to use their voice to call for change, to support their local food bank, and to build community with people who have lived experience of facing hardship.