Client / commissioning partners: Cambridge Churches Homeless Project (CCHP), in collaboration with Ridley Hall theological college and the Diocese of ElyPlatform: Moodle, delivered via TempusLearning (built and maintained by ASD Arts and Education Ltd / Designed Learning Solutions)
Programme Overview
“Responding Well to Homelessness” is a discernment and equipping course for volunteers and church members feeling called to ministry alongside people experiencing homelessness. It sits within TempusLearning’s wider portfolio of hybrid, faith-based training courses (alongside programmes such as Starting New Christian Communities and Schools Chaplaincy), all built on a common Moodle platform serving multiple partner organisations through dedicated categories (Westminster College, Ambassadors Football, Ely Diocese, CCHP, Ridley Hall).
This course has well-scoped, tightly-facilitated design: nine sessions is a manageable monthly cadence for volunteer learners balancing this alongside existing commitments, and the deliberate inclusion of experts-by-experience alongside professional and theological voices is a genuinely strong pedagogical and ethical choice for this subject matter.
Learning Design Structure
- Format: Nine structured sessions, designed for group-based, monthly completion — consistent with the cadence used across TempusLearning’s other courses
- Content mix: Podcasts, reflections, practical tasks, and group conversations — a blended asynchronous/synchronous model
- Curriculum focus: Core topics include trauma, addiction, deep listening, and relational psychology
- Voice and expertise mix: Content draws on three distinct contributor groups —
- Practitioners from homelessness services
- Theologians offering reflection on homelessness
- Experts-by-experience — people who have themselves experienced homelessness, given deliberate prominence (“most importantly”)
- Entry route: Cohort/group-based enrolment — groups register via CCHP directly (info@cchp.org.uk) rather than individual self-enrolment, reinforcing the group-conversation design
Conclusions:
Ed-Tech Delivery
- LMS: Shared multi-tenant Moodle instance (TempusLearning), with course categorised under the CCHP partner area
- Accessibility: Site-wide accessibility toolkit consistent with the platform standard — visual impairment, dyslexia, ADHD, and colour-vision profiles, adjustable text/line/letter spacing, reading guide and mask tools, cursor options
Partnership & Delivery Model
This course is a strong example of DLS’s stated “co-design” consultancy approach — partner testimonial content on the site (attributed to CCHP) describes the process as one where the client’s initial ideas were developed collaboratively into “a final product that was much more interactive, accessible and exciting” than the partner organisation could have built alone. This reflects a broader positioning around blending theological depth, everyday ministry practice with innovative methods to help organisations move from insight to action.