Spalding parish church awarded £10,500 for research into foreign nationals integration

Spalding’s St Mary and St Nicolas Church has been awarded £10,500 to research integration with foreign nationals.

The town has been identified as one of the least integrated places in England.

The Parochial Church Council wants to employ people to research the barriers to integration and to identify ways to overcome them.

The part-time work (about 275 hours between September this year and August 2017) will be liaising with Polish, Lithuanian and Latvian residents. Pay will be £7.90 per hour. Funding for the Community Connectors programme has come from the Bishop of Lincoln’s Social Justice Fund.

The Rev John Bennett said: “I am delighted that with this award our church can help people in our community to connect better with one another, to build a stronger sense that Spalding is home to everyone who has settled here and to realise that we all have a stake in making it a good place to live with the facilities that we and our families need.”

Visit www.stmaryandstnicolas.org.uk for details.

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