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Supporting Lay Preachers and Worship Leaders 2025

Supporting Lay Preachers and Worship Leaders 2025

Thursday 25 – Saturday 27 September 2025 Join us this September for our annual Lay Preachers’ and Worship Leaders’ Conference, shaped around the theme Preaching & Worshipping with Wisdom. This year we will give particular attention to combatting Christian...

A call to Individual Singers and Choirs

A call to Individual Singers and Choirs

Our Festival of Church Music in Coventry Cathedral is only a few months away on the 11th October 2025. Anthem books for the festival are ⏩ now available ⏪. The theme this year appropriately is 'Justice and Freedom' . We are looking for individual...

Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme (LPWGS): Important Deadline

Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme (LPWGS): Important Deadline

The Historic Religious Buildings Alliance Announcement “As you know, from 1 April 2025 there is a cap on VAT refunds under the LPWGS. The cap will limit a place of worship to a total VAT refund of £25k in the year (i.e. equivalent to a spend including VAT of £125k) We...

Walk and Not Be Faint – A Lifetime of Ministry                                                   by Revd Derek Newton

Walk and Not Be Faint – A Lifetime of Ministry by Revd Derek Newton

"I don't think Mr Newton is suitable as he is only a carpenter!" (A quote from the book) Isaiah chapter 40, verses 30 to 31. 'Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall, but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on...