Christians Against Poverty for churches

Christians Against Poverty (CAP) is a national debt counselling charity. CAP works with local churches offering hope and a solution to anyone in debt through its unique, in-depth service.

At a local level there are two main ways in which churches can respond to the problem of personal debt in their parish or community.

A first and inexpensive step is to run CAP Money, a simple money management course that can be used within the church or as a community outreach tool. There are now several people in the diocese trained to deliver CAP Money.

CAP has a network of debt counselling centres throughout the UK and the parish of Magheralin has one up and running. A Belfast Central centre, based in Willowfield, is also operational as well as Bangor through Christ Church Primacy. 

Working in partnership with CAP to open a centre empowers these churches with:

• A professional debt counselling service offered free of charge to people in your community (find out more about the service here)
• A chance for church members to be empowered to serve the community
• An individual or team trained by CAP, working as volunteers or paid staff to set up and run the centre

Bishop Harold has endorsed CAP and its groundbreaking work, noting that in 2008 and 2009 it won the Sunday Times Award for "Best Small Company To Work For". It was a runner-up in 2010.

The rectors of the above churches would be happy to speak with you about their experience of CAP in the first instance please contact:

Chris Cupples
NI Area Manager

Email:  chriscupples@capuk.org
Phone: 07541211459