We are celebrating 5 years since we opened the Olive ROC Community Centre and cafe in Edgeley, Stockport. The community centre runs a whole range of activities and, as they say, it’s more than coffee. Every day you can get a warm welcome and some delicious refreshments but there are also a whole host of … Continue reading Happy Birthday to the Olive ROC Centre

PARTINGTON UPDATE What a month we’ve had! In April ROC Garden has begun the groundwork for starting a new ROC Garden Transformation project in Partington, Manchester. Already we have formed a core team of 4 local volunteers who will also receive support from some of our ROC Garden volunteers from Blackpool too. Working with Your … Continue reading ROC GARDEN TRANSFORMATION PROGRAMME

At every ROC Conversation, you can guarantee that ‘youth’ will be discussed in one form or another. If ‘they’ are not causing problems through Anti-Social Behaviour then there is a lack of facilities for ‘them’ – or perhaps both.  Unfortunately, the youth of our communities rarely turn up in great numbers to a ROC Conversation … Continue reading YOUTH ENGAGEMENT – YOUTH ROC CONVERSATION WILMSLOW

ROC was privileged to be at Spring Harvest for two weeks, Minehead and Skegness, this year!  For those who don’t know Spring Harvest it is a Christian festival which attracts many thousands and happens over the Easter period at Butlin’s and the Harrogate convention centre. We had ROC teams running our stand in the exhibition … Continue reading SPRING HARVEST 2019

Since our ROC Conversation in September 2018, it’s been an exciting time in Taunton. Piloting a night café for rough sleepers which has resulted in ROC TD leading on the provision of a severe weather shelter from the end of 2019, and beginning to develop a toolkit for facilitating initiatives and projects for use by … Continue reading ROC Taunton Deane

Back in 2008, we made BBC headline news. The headline was 1000’s praying about gang violence. Churches from across the city gathered at the Velodrome to pray about the spate of gang violence. At the time Debra was heading up City Links and Prayer Network which eventually led to starting ROC in 2014. The prayer … Continue reading Thousands Pray Over Gang Violence

One of the recent cases taken on by one of our partner churches involved providing parenting skills as part of the mentoring support offered to a local Mum. She was referred by the pastoral support worker at a junior school the church had links with. Her son, who was 7 years old, had learning difficulties … Continue reading A Mentor’s Story

On Wednesday 19th March the ROC Mentors launched in Westminster, hosted by Fiona Bruce MP. 50 guests attended including MP’s, Lords, Councillors, leaders of organisations and churches. Fiona spoke about her admiration for ROC from her early encounter with us over 10 years ago. She is currently serving as the MP for Congleton. We are … Continue reading ROC + COACH Mentors Launch in Westminster

Our ROC Gardens project continues to thrive - following the impact and success of our dedicated team in Blackpool, plans are well underway to expanding into Trafford this Spring. The project supports unemployed people back into employment by training them up to tackle some of the most overgrown gardens in Blackpool, helping them to become … Continue reading ROC Gardens is growing!

With the latest release of Debra's new book we thought we'd give away the first chapter video, Establishing Your Base Camp, for free to give you a little peek into what to expect from this amazing resource that comes as part of the ROC Prayer Course. To get your copy of the book, prayer resource … Continue reading Mountain Moving Prayer – Establishing Your Base Camp