The churches have been at the forefront of efforts to recognise & care for the needs of the many migrant & seasonal workers who are found increasingly in rural Britain.
The Churches Rural Group (as part of Churches Together in England) has been actively involved in this. The Arthur Rank Centre has helped with the production, promotion and publicising of relevant resources.
There is a full-colour leaflet – “Rural Migrant Workers: Modern Slavery?” - available direct from the Arthur Rank Centre for just the cost of postage: phone 024-7685-3060 or e-mail here to order copies.
Alternatively you can freely download a copy of the leaflet
here
(251 Kb), as well as a full-colour A3 poster from the
leaflet
here
(312 Kb).
Also available from the Arthur Rank Centre – but only as a freely downloadable
file – is the more detailed report on Rural Migrant Workers
here
(131 Kb), from which the leaflet was produced.
Please note that the leaflet was produced in 2005, and events have moved on substantially since then. So some material in the leaflet is a little dated, although it still provides a helpful overview & guide for churches and individual church members.
RuSource Briefing 457 “Migrant Workers in Rural Areas” from The ARC is available
here
(52 Kb). This is a summary of a report from the Commission for Rural Communities
from January 2007. Various RuSource Briefings contain reference to rural
migrant workers; these can be searched for
here.
Other Resources
A great deal of other helpful material is available from other sources. We have gathered together links to some of the most significant of those resources. In many cases, these relate to migrant workers in general, rather than to the specific rural situation:
Click here for specifically
church-related resourcesIn every case, the resources indicated are freely downloadable.
An enormous amount of material related to migrant workers in the UK is now available online, much of it for free download. We only include a fraction of this (what we think is the most relevant for our constituency) on the ARC website. However, most of the documents and many of the links can be made available to you burnt onto a CD. If you would find this helpful, please contact us – as indicated below.
If you know of useful material that we have not mentioned on these pages, do get in touch with the Training & Resources Officer of the Arthur Rank Centre, by phoning 024-7685-3068 or by e-mailing here. We are always happy to promote good resources, wherever they originate.
