Jubilee Centre Explained

The Jubilee Centre is a Christian organization based in the United Kingdom.[1] It was founded in 1983 by Michael Schluter. It is the publisher of the Jubilee Manifesto and has a quarterly publication, the Cambridge Papers.[2] [3] [4]

It was behind the launch of the now independent Keep Sunday Special campaign in 1985, which contributed to Margaret Thatcher's first defeat in the Commons.[5] [6] It launched the informal Fair Sex Movement against sex education in the UK.[7] It has inspired similar similar organisations internationally in Singapore,[8] Kenya,[9] and the US.[10]

The Jubilee Centre is a British registered charity (No. 288783), financed by private donations.[11]

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  1. News: Experts say marriage isn't so important now . https://web.archive.org/web/20110615173938/http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/relationships/article3265420.ece . dead . June 15, 2011 . The Times . 30 May 2008 . According to the Jubilee Centre, a Christian-based social reform organisation... . London . Carol . Midgley . 29 January 2008.
  2. Web site: Jubilee Manifesto . UK Christian Bookshops Directory: Christian Book Reviews . 6 June 2008 . This is probably the second best book I've ever read..
  3. News: Christian group calls for a Christian university in Britain . The Times . 3 October 2008 . an academic paper published by a leading Christian think-tank. . London. Ruth. Gledhill. 3 October 2008.
  4. Web site: The Jubilee Centre Winter School, January 2007 . Potton Vineyard Church . 30 May 2008 . The Jubilee Centre Winter School (was) a seminal, life changing experience ... various publications, including the internationally well-known Cambridge Papers . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20111004050026/http://www.pottonvineyard.org.uk/Publisher/article.aspx?id=66436 . 4 October 2011.
  5. 591652 . Seven Days' Trading Make One Weak? The Sunday Trading Issue as an Index of Secularization . The British Journal of Sociology, Vol. 45, No. 3 (Sep., 1994), pp. 333-348. The Parliamentary battle over the 1985/6 Shops Bill, designed to relax most of Britain's Sunday Trading laws, was the biggest defeat ever suffered by the Thatcher govern- ment: although the government had an absolute majority of 139 it was defeated by 14 votes. Christian lobby groups, such as the Cambridge- based Keep Sunday Special Campaign played a key role, alongside the trade unions and other opponents, in achieving this result. . 45 . 333–348. Richter . Philip . The British Journal of Sociology . 1994 . 3 . 10.2307/591652 .
  6. News: Social campaigner appointed MBE (sic) . BBC News . 7 January 2009 . He launched the Keep Sunday Special campaign against the deregulation of Sunday trading in 1985, causing Margaret Thatcher's only defeat in Parliament. . 31 December 2008.
  7. Web site: Movement demands consultation on compulsory sex ed for five-year-olds . Christian Today . 15 April 2009 . The Fair Sex Movement is calling for a public consultation on the Government’s controversial proposals to make sex and relationship education a statutory requirement for children five years old and over in all England's schools..
  8. Web site: Building a School . Shalom Singapore . 30 May 2008 . Under the joint partnership between SHALOM SINGAPORE and THE JUBILEE CENTRE in Cambridge, UK . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080103135101/http://shalomsingapore.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18&Itemid=34 . 3 January 2008.
  9. Web site: Finding a biblical framework for Christian social engagement . Christian Today . 18 June 2008 . In Kenya, a group of Christians under Professor Peter Kimuyu’s leadership has recently come together to establish a body similar to the Jubilee Centre..
  10. Web site: New director for Jubilee Centre . Christian Today . 30 May 2008 . the Christian research centre is planning to expand its international network into such places as Singapore, Kenya, Holland and the USA..
  11. Web site: Extract from the Central Register of Charities: Jubilee Centre . The Charity Commission for England and Wales . 30 May 2008 .

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