Compassionate Communities

• We love to visit churches & chaplaincies to listen to what you are doing, learn, advise & connect with you.
  Get in touch to arrange a visit from our team to talk over what you are doing, or if you are considering starting a new community ministry.
• We build and maintain relationships with partner organisations & networks, who offer resources, ideas and support to our church communities.
  We can signpost you to a range of partners that exist to support churches, whatever your social action or social justice work.
  A range of our partner charities can be found under each “theme of work” below.

We offer training, events & resources, as well as signposting to other organisations’ trainings.

The aim of these is always to help churches grow in competence, confidence & courage in your social action and social justice ministries.

• Details of future events and training can be found here.
• Resources and links related to specific ministries are available under each “Theme of Work” below.
• We also record talks and trainings we deliver and post them onto our YouTube channel for you to watch back later.

• We seek to encourage community ministry work in our parishes, underpinning it all with theology to envision and inspire.
• We share good practice, and tell stories of what God is doing in our churches, to celebrate and learn from what is already happening. If you have a great story to share- please get in touch!
  You can find a range of stories from churches and partner charities in our “Latest Stories” section below, and under each Theme of Work.
• Where we can, we amplify the stories and experiences of churches to raise awareness of issues to local authories, local and national government, and seek to inform policy & wider practice.

• We respond to the emerging needs and events affecting our communities in London to support our parishes in responding compassionately
• We facilitate projects and schemes that can only happen at Diocesan scale or wider – for example, our Hosting scheme, or the Pieta Resource for churches responding to youth violence
• We work wherever we can in collaboration with our neighbouring dioceses, charities and ecumenical partners to do this.