By Matty Maslen, member of the SPARK communityFor the past 9 months I have been a member of the PeaceJam UK Youth Team. As part of this, I was given the opportunity to join the organising team for the 2024 conference held in Winchester. Through zoom meetings held across the country (and occasionally across the […]
Matthew (Matty) Maslen has been appointed to the Trustee Board of CAFOD. Matty has been part of the SPARK community for some time. He was part-sponsored by SPARK Social Justice to attend the youth stream of the first two Conference of the Parties to the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons ( see this […]
By Anthony Bracuti, member of the SPARK communityThe non-optional presence of Good Works in the life of a Christian is paradoxically often ignored and focused on in equal measure. Jesus’ core teachings revolve around care for your neighbour, and to ignore this is to ignore Jesus.The Church’s long history of social teaching, formed into our […]
Is a better form of politics possible?What would it look like?We have extended the deadline to apply for full sponsorship to attend a weekend conference to explore these themes.See the full details in this post.
By Matty Maslen Earlier this month, I travelled down to London to take part in ‘A nuclear-free future: A day in Parliament with Youth and Student CND’.With other young people from across England and Wales, I took part in workshops with MPs and Peers of the House of Lords. We were joined for short question […]
SPARK and the Justice and Peace Commission are members of Leeds Citizens and at their Accountability Assembly this week we heard from the potential Mayoral candidates for West Yorkshire. This is the current Mayor Tracey Brabin. I went with Anthony, one of our SPARK supporters, John Battle Chair of the Justice and Peace Commission also […]