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10 Years of Farmers' Markets

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12 B.C. Charity Walk

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A Calling

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A Celebration of Village Life

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A Child's Perspective

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A Farmer's Perspective

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A Vibrant Countryside?

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Access All Areas: meeting the needs of rural communities

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ACRE - Action with Communities in Rural England

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Action for Communities in Rural England (ACRE & RCAN)

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After Sunday

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Agreed

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Ancient & Modern

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Auditing or Profiling for Rural Churches and Communities: an Introduction

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Awards for All (with regional information)

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Belonging & Believing

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Belonging in Rural Communities

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Beware a Queue

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Big Cream Tea, the

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Big Cream Tea, the

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Borders Village Lunch

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Breakfast Barbecue & Rogationtide Worship at Clun

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Bring Your Church & Village to Life

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British Trust for Conservation Volunteers (BTCV) (local offices)

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Building on History

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Buildings that Say "Welcome"

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Bus Shelter Art

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Cambourne: the development of a new planned village

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Caring for God's Acre

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Cautionary Tale, a

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Celebrating Volunteering

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Celebration of Village Life

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Changing Community, Changing Church?

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Changing Face of Church Planting, the

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Changing Lives

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Changing Lives ... For Good

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Changing Rural Life

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Changing Rural Life: a Christian response to key rural issues

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Children's Work Training Manual

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Christians at Work

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Church & Countryside: insights from rural theology

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Church Build

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Church Watch

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Church Watch: Christianity in the countryside

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Church with open doors or just sheer consumerism, a?

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Churches Linking with Schools

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Clipping

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Coffee, Croissants, Church & a Crowd of Folks

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Come to Ceredigion

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Community Assets

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Community Christmas Creativity

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Community First (funding possibilities from October 2011 – part of CDF)

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Community Foundation Network (numerous local foundations)

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Community Service Volunteers (CSV) (considerable local involvement)

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Computers for Rural People

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Contribution of People to Community Life, the

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Country Parish, the

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Country Way: life & faith in rural Britain

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Creative Mission

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Creative Worship

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Credit Unions: help for the rural poor?

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Database of Good Practice in Rural Health and Wellbeing

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DEFRA – former Commission for Rural Communities (from 01/04/2011)

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Dignity in Times of Adversity

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Discover the Open Church Network

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Effective Christian Presence & Enterprise

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Empingham: a village with vision

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English Heritage (regional offices)

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Equipping For Rural Mission

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Evangelism in Rural Churches

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Exploring the Local Church in Mission: Church & Community Audit

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Faith & Love in St. Brides

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Faith in Action: a Derbyshire Churches Guide to Community Mission

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Faith in Affordable Housing

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Faith in Place

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Faith in the Community: the contribution of faith-based organisations to rural voluntary action

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Faith in the Countryside [full]

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Faith in the Countryside [summary]

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Faith in the Countryside: transforming Communities

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Faith Journeys: Sean & Nicola's tale

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Faithfully Volunteering

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Family History (local groups)

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Farm, the: the story of one family & the English countryside

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Festivals & Evangelism: in the valleys of West Yorkshire

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Finding Faith

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First the Blade: growing churches in rural communities

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First Tier ...

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First, a?

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Fishguard in Transition

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Fresh Expressions

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Fresh Expressions of Church: is there a need or opportunity in rural Britain?

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Fresh Expressions: Rural Seminar Pack

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Glass Half Full ...

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God-Shaped Mission

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Good at Mission

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Grass is Always Greener, the: rural life & Christian faith

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Guides/Brownies/Scouts/Cubs etc. (local groups)

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H2O

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Harvest of the Lambs

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Heysham Bloomin' Wins Again

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Hidden Britain

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Hidden Visitors

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Housing Justice

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How is it for You? Rural Learning Network for multi-parish benefice clergy

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How One Thing Leads to Another

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How to Get Fair in the Country

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In Celebration: Hidden Britain of Cumbria

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Just Imagine

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Life as an MP & a Christian

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Little History of the English Country Church, a

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Locality (network of community-led organisations) (numerous local projects)

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Messy Church

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Mission Communities

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Mission-Shaped & Rural: growing churches in the countryside

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Mission-Shaped Introduction

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Mission-Shaped Ministry

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Models of the Church

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Monks Kirby: a tabernacle in a temple

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National Association of Local Councils (NALC) (full local & regional contact information)

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Neighbourhood/Local Development Officer (local)

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New Community-Led Planning Toolkit

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Next 20 Years, the ...

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Nobody Cares anymore!

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North Poles

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On the Edge

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One Day: High Bickington Church of England Primary School, Devon

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Open All Hours: a way forward for church buildings in the 21st century

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Open for You: the Church, the visitor & the Gospel

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Over the Hill? The antidote to 'Welly Telly'?

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Palms, Pipes & Picnics

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Parish Clerk (local)

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Parish Nursing Ministries UK (PNMUK)

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Parish Plans - and your Community

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Ploughing New Ground

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Plunkett Foundation, the

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Posada!

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Presence Papers, the

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Price of Everything & the Value of Nothing, the

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Project Development Workshop

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Project Reflection Workshop

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Re-Shaping Rural Ministry

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Re-Shaping Rural Ministry: a theological & practical handbook

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Redefest: the Church, music & the community - where?

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Reflecting on Rural Spirituality

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Reflections from the Modern Country Churchyard

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Renewal

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Resolving Tensions: a place for teenagers in the village

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Rural Children, Rural Church

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Rural Evangelism in the 21st Century

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Rural Fresh Expression of Church, a

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Rural Housing Enablers

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Rural Life Officer

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Rural Lifelines

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Rural Ministries (UK)

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Rural Ministry: a parish workbook for lay ministry in the country church

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Rural Poverty: the shadow-side of the idyllic pastorate

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Rural Presence: an effective Church in rural communities

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Rural Proofing Mission Shaped Church

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Rural Roman Catholic Churches: East Hendred & the Eystons

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Rural Roman Catholic Churches: Harvington, Worcestershire

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Rural Trading: business or mission?

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RuSource Briefings

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Safeguarding

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Saltby & Skillington: being salt & light

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Satellite Post Office & new Meeting Facilities in Sheepy Magna Church

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Seasonal Worship from the Countryside

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Seasonal Worship from the Countryside

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Showing Quality

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Small Church Potential

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Small Things

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Social Capital in Rural Places

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Soft Boundaries: offering hope for rural churches & their mission

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Sowing the Seed: church & rural renaissance in Yorkshire & the Humber

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Stable Centre, a?

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State of the Countryside 2010, the

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Statistical Digest of Rural England 2011

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Stewardship Toolkit for Rural Churches, a

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Still in Mission

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Still Small Silent Voice

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Support for Rural Community-Owned Shops

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Support? No chance!

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Sustainable Sombourne

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Sustaining Communities in the Lake District National Park

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Sustaining Heart in the Heartland: exploring rural spirituality

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Sustaining Village Life

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Theology of the Built Environment, a: justice, empowerment, redemption

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To close or not to close; that is the question

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Tracing England's Rural Finances

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Transforming Communities: re-imagining the Church for the 21st century

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Trapped by Sustainability

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Vicarious Religion in Modern Britain

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Views from the Fringe

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Village Leaflets

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Village SOS

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Walking the Circuit

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Wayfarers Church, the

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Welcoming Small Congregations: affirming & developing the mission of small charges

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Whatcote Community Hall

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Whatcote Community Hall

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Who Believes?

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Who Can be Neighbours in Our Exclusive Countryside

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Who Owns Rural Britain? The Scottish experience

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Why Join a Small Church?

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Woodland Burial

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Working in Schools

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Working with Others

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Worship Resources for Rogation

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Worshipping Locally

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