In recent years we have:
- supported the building of a school in Bethlehem;
- made it possible, through Uttar Pradesh Gramin Shramik Shiksa Sansthan (UPGSSS), for children in India to be educated instead of being condemned to a life of manual labour from a very young age;
- enabled a heart monitor to be purchased for a hospital in North India;
- provided shoes for children in the slums of Kibera.
Kibera In Need provides a school to educate some of the children from the slums.
This year, to celebrate the bi-centenary of the birth of Louis Braille, we are supporting the work of the Bible Society who are sending audio-visual Bible material to countries where books are not available and/or where many of the population are illiterate.
Members have home collecting boxes which are emptied periodically
The Proclaimer is a rechargeable, solar-powered machine with the New Testament in a local language on digital chip. Up to 300 people at a time can listen to the Bible read aloud in their own language. This year we hope to raise sufficient money to provide 10 of these machines.
In addition we actively support the work of Christian Aid by an annual House to House collection during Christian Aid Week, taking part in the Mayor’s Charity Walk to raise money through sponsorship, taking part in collections in the Royal Priors and making other donations to this worthwhile cause.
We also support the work of the Leamington Christian Mission and the Poverty and Homelessness Project in attempting to meet the needs of those in the immediate area of Leamington Spa.
A fire caused severe damage to Bath Place Community Centre recently. The building cannot be used and all the community activities are being accommodated elsewhere. Radford Road Church has offered the use of the Church Centre to house the Night Light project each Sunday night. Food and shelter are offered to the most vulnerable and homeless people in the area by a team of volunteers from the community.