Social Responsibility Links - Tourism
Churches Tourism Association
Resources for churches including:
- Open Churches Advice Leaflet
- Mission: Visitors - a guide for churches wanting to raise their profile for tourism
- Ministry of Welcome
- Encouraging Visitors on a Spiritual Journey - simple. practical suggestions
- all can be downloaded from the site.
Visitor Toolkit and other resources from St David's Diocese
You are welcome is very useful visitor toolkit to help churches look at their welcome procedures. Excellent checklists.
Divine Inspiration
This site about unlocking churches in Coventry and Warwickshire offers useful guidance that could be used by churches in Worcestershire and Dudley. There is a collection of downloadable resources.
North Yorkshire Churches Tourism Initiative
An example of what can be done in partnership with churches. Treasures Revealed is their latest project.
The Churches Conservation Trust
Lots of information about churches to visit.
Friends of Friendless Churches
The front looks like a 'holding' page, but if you click on the logo/title, you are taken to the website.
Go West Teme Valley Project
Go West is an association of volunteers concerned about the well being of the countryside. Linked to the Worcester Agricultural and Rural Life Chaplaincy.
A Church Near You
Find Anglican churches in England. Also has a parish finder service which uses parish boundaries supplied by the Church Commissioners.
Inspired!
Details of the English Heritage Inspired! campaign.
Dudley Tourism
Dudley Borough Council's tourism and travel pages
Worcestershire Tourism
The Visit Worcestershire website
Visit the Heart
Heart of England tourism website
Insights
Insights is the tourism marketing intelligence publication produced by VisitBritain. Designed for tourism professionals, many of the reports have to be paid for but they do include some church and cathedral related documents.
The diocese is not responsible for the content of any websites to which its own website is linked.
