Street Pastors engage with people on the streets to care for them, listen to them and help them. They work together with other partners in the night-time economy to make communities safer. Each city project is set up by Ascension Trust and run by a local coordinator with support from local churches and community groups, in partnership with the police, local council and other statutory agencies. For more information about the Street Pastors, visit their website
Many describe Haringey as a very divided place, with the railway line splitting the prosperous west from the poorer east. But for over 20 years the Christian community in Haringey has been working hard at building unity among the borough’s churches. “Pray Haringey started in the mid-1990s with a revelation that we didn’t actually know each other”, local leader Andie Frost explains. “So a group of leaders got together and began praying for each other, for our congregations and for our borough. And it’s snowballed, developing into a strong vision to meet the needs of Haringey.” At one prayer meeting for Haringey, the leaders realised that they didn’t know the state of the education system in t
