Navigating conflict with a healthy attitude
Navigating conflict with a healthy attitude can enable church communities to be a place where all can grow and flourish.
2025 Cinnamon Incubator Final Winner Announces
On Thursday 13 November, BRITE Box fought off stiff competition to win the 2025 Cinnamon Incubator Competition at St Peter’s Church, Notting Hill, London. Since April, Cinnamon have been looking for ambitious church-led social action projects that are...
Our 2024 Incubator Competition Winner – One Year On
A year ago, The Starfish Alliance won the 2024 Cinnamon Incubator Final. Founder Bryan Elliot reflects on a busy year for the charity, which trains and equips local churches to host life-changing camps and mentoring clubs for care-experienced children.How has winning...
Meet our 2025 Incubator Finalists – Bridge the Gap
Bridge the Gap is one of our 2025 Cinnamon Incubator Competition finalists. On Thursday 13 November, they'll be presenting their initiative at St Peter's Church in Notting Hill for a chance to win £20,000 and a place on the Cinnamon Incubator Programme. What we do...
Meet our 2025 Incubator Finalists – Brite Box
BRITE Box is one of our 2025 Cinnamon Incubator Competition finalists. On Thursday 13 November, they'll be presenting their initiative at St Peter's Church in Notting Hill for a chance to win £20,000 and a place on the Cinnamon Incubator Programme. What we do BRITE...
Meet our 2025 Incubator Finalists – Christian Boxing Alliance
Christian Boxing Alliance is one of our 2025 Cinnamon Incubator Competition finalists. On Thursday 13 November, they'll be presenting their initiative at St Peter's Church in Notting Hill for a chance to win £20,000 and a place on the Cinnamon Incubator...
Meet our 2025 Incubator Finalists – Garden Hope
Garden Hope is one of our 2025 Cinnamon Incubator Competition finalists. On Thursday 13 November, they'll be presenting their initiative at St Peter's Church in Notting Hill for a chance to win £20,000 and a place on the Cinnamon Incubator Programme. What we do Garden...
Meet our 2025 Incubator Finalists – Sparkle
Sparkle is one of our 2025 Cinnamon Incubator Competition finalists. On Thursday 13 November, they'll be presenting their initiative at St Peter's Church in Notting Hill for a chance to win £20,000 and a place on the Cinnamon Incubator Programme. What we do Sparkle is...
Artifical Intelligence vs Authentic Interaction
Yesterday, I think I heard one of the saddest things ever. A friend told me about someone she knows who has a terminal condition that makes it difficult for her to get around. She lives in a second-floor flat. And, while the flat has a garden, unless someone is there...
Kingdom Transformation Event
On Thursday 6th February 2025 Cinnamon are hosting an in-person event in Perth, Scotland with our friends from Cairn Movement. Church leaders and those heading up ministries of all shapes and sizes will be joining us for a time of refreshment and encouragement....
Watch the 2024 Incubator Competition Finalists
Watch the 2024 Cinnamon Incubator Final The Cinnamon Incubator Programme has been helping start-up social projects to grow and replicate across the UK for more than a decade. On Wednesday 15 November, The Starfish Alliance fought off stiff competition to win the 2024...
2024 Cinnamon Incubator Competition Winners Announced
2024 Cinnamon Incubator Competition Winners Announced On Wednesday 15 November, The Starfish Alliance fought off stiff competition to win the 2024 Cinnamon Incubator Competition at St Peter’s Church, Notting Hill, London. Since April, Cinnamon have been looking for...
Cinnamon Incubator Winner One Year On: Someone Cares
One Year On: Someone Cares A year ago Someone Cares won the 2023 Cinnamon Incubator Final. Founder Jenni Calcraft reflects on a busy year for the charity, which provides support to the families of children who are admitted to Alder Hey Children's Hospital. How has...
Top Five Church-Led Social Action Projects Set to Compete for Prestigious Cinnamon Incubator Award
Top Five Church-Led Social Action Projects Set to Compete for Prestigious Cinnamon Incubator Award On Wednesday, 13 November, the Cinnamon Network will host the 2024 Incubator Final, celebrating innovative church-driven social action initiatives making a tangible...
What Story Are You Part Of?
Take a moment to contemplate how the work you’re involved with complements God’s far-reaching narrative. “It’s fools who plunge ahead with reckless confidence,” Proverbs 14:16 You want to get going. You want to see your community transformed. But what is God actually...
6 Steps to Fundraising Success
Fundraising for Sustainability Six things you ALWAYS need to consider when building your fundraising strategy. 1. Know your audience – what are they interested in? Not everyone is interested in what you do – and that’s fine! Don’t waste your time trying to persuade...
Community, Community, Community
Community, Community, Community Community isn't something that happens by accident. It takes commitment and effort, but it's well worth the results. Find out how researchers investigating heart disease in the town of Roseto in Pennsylvania stumbled across a rather...
Meet Kelleigh Hudson
Meet Kelleigh Hudson Kelleigh heads up Cinnamon's work in Greater London. Kelleigh has vast experience working with social action projects of all sizes. Alongside her work for Cinnamon, she is a freelance trainer and community specialist helping Christian and secular...
Sharing Faith Authentically
Sharing Faith Authentically Making friends and sharing your life…bursting out of our Christian bubbles! Lisa Robertson from Isaiah 61 Movement has some practical advice to help you step out of your comfort zone and share your faith. Jesus reminds us that in Isaiah 61...
Cinnamon Incubator 2023 Winners Announced
On Wednesday 15 November, Someone Cares fought off stiff competition to win the 2023 Cinnamon Incubator Competition at St Peter’s Church, Notting Hill in London. Since April, Cinnamon have been looking for ambitious church-led social action projects that are...
Cinnamon Incubator celebrates 10 years and 160,000 lives transformed.
Back in 2013, Cinnamon Network had a crazy idea. They noticed that churches across the country were finding innovative ways to address challenges in their communities. They embarked on an audacious plan to seek out these initiatives, bottle their brilliance and help...
Seven Years On: Renew Wellbeing
Back in 2016 in the basement of Emmanuel Centre Church in Westminster, Ruth Rice took to the stage for what was then known as Cinnamon Project Lab Final. She spoke of her own mental health struggles and her vision for churches to set up spaces where it was OK not to...
One Year On: Restored
Restored were the winners of our 2022 Cinnamon Incubator Competition and Bekah Legg reflects on a busy 12 months for the organisation who equip the church to support survivors of domestic abuse. How has the Cinnamon Incubator Competition impacted your work? The...
How ‘Safe’ is Your Church?
Mention safeguarding, and chances are, you’ll get eye rolls and yawns from your congregation. But surely as churches, were freedom, justice and love are at the very heart of what we believe, this is the stuff that should have us dancing in the aisles. But it rarely...
