Ways your church can get involved

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How your church can be involved

CAP is here to serve and equip your church so that you can demonstrate God’s love in action for your local community.

If you’ve got a heart to bring hope and good news to your community, we can provide the training and resources for your church to run one of our CAP services: whether that’s helping people get out of debt, find work, gain vital life skills or get to grips with their finances.

Our partnership with CAP has literally transformed our impact in Woking. Our CAP courses are helping people make huge changes in their lives. 

Dub Everitt — Outreach Pastor, Welcome Church Woking 

Offer debt help

Debt help visit
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Your church can provide free, professional debt counselling to those in need in your community. Our unique face-to-face visit model means that you will be bringing the hope of Jesus directly into people’s homes.

  • 2,292 adults became debt free in 2023
  • 652 churches partner with CAP to provide debt help
  • 15,972 calls were made to our helpline about debt help in 2023

Provide money coaching

Lead the conversation around money and equip people with the skills and confidence to stay in control of their finances. Whatever someone may be trying to achieve with their finances – whether it’s getting to grips with credit, reducing spending, or learning to have a healthier relationship with money – your free money coaching sessions can help.

  • 3,638 people received expert money coaching in 2023
  • 818 churches partner with CAP to offer money coaching
  • 1,312 church members were trained to provide money coaching in 2023

Deliver life skills

A life skills group in Greenwich, London

Your church can build a community where people who are navigating life on a low income come together to share ideas and skills. Together, you’ll discover different ways to cook healthily and go shopping on a budget, grow in confidence and self-esteem, and more.

  • 181 churches partner with CAP to deliver life skills
  • 28 new life skills groups opened in 2023
  • 77 church members were trained as life skills coaches in 2023

Run a job club

By running a job club, you can help jobseekers gain the tools, skills and confidence to step back into employment. It combines a practical eight-week course to provide the tools needed to find work, with the support of your friendly church community to help increase confidence and self-esteem.

  • 114 churches partner with CAP to run job clubs
  • 6 new job clubs opened in 2023
  • 20 church members were trained as job club coaches in 2023

The power of partnership

God is bringing about transformation across the UK through local churches in partnership with CAP,

Changing communities

Churches are offering hope and equipping people with the tools to overcome debt and poverty. Partnering with local churches like yours means that together we can provide practical, emotional and spiritual support that completely changes lives.

Changing churches

As you seek to transform the lives of those in your community, we will support you and your church, helping you to grow new leaders, upskill your congregation and ensuring your CAP service complements your existing ministries and activities.

Changing society

A person having​‘just enough’ to live on shouldn’t satisfy our hunger for justice. So, through the collective power of our passionate church partners, we can champion change and seek a society where all are able to thrive.

What our church partners say about working with CAP

Other options

Host a CAP Speaker

Book a CAP Speaker and inspire your church to make a difference. Every talk includes real life stories, Bible teaching and a practical call to action, helping your congregation to share God’s love and see lives transformed in your community.

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Give as a church

Giving financially helps us to see more people across the UK free from debt and poverty and living with hope in Jesus. Support the work of CAP together as a church community.

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Take action

For over 25 years we’ve been raising the voice of the Church and speaking up on behalf of those being crushed under the weight of poverty and debt. Will your church campaign with us?

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Pray

We would love you to pray. We believe that God is listening and he answers our prayers. We can advise on what you and your community can pray for to see transformed lives, thriving churches and an end to UK poverty.

Ready to find out more?

Our friendly team is here to chat and answer any questions you and your church might have. No pressure, just a helpful conversation to explore the needs of your church and community and how we can help.

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