News & Stories

A church in Shepshed has seen a project to create a community library in its building finally come to fruition, after more than 18 months in the making. A team of like-minded church members and an ordinand helped bring the library to life at St Botolph's Church, with the support and inspiration from the wider community in the Charnwood town.

A new Warden has been appointed for Launde Abbey

A new magazine has been put together bringing you the latest updates and resources from The Diocesan Social Responsibility Panel. In the first edition we meet the members of the SR panel and learn more about the upcoming content of the magazine.

Members of the community across the Upper Wreake Benefice recently enjoyed a prayerful week of pilgrim walks, taking in the beautiful, rural landscape and reflecting on where God was at work in their villages and the wider diocese. The four walks each covered between two and five miles and took place among the parishes of Frisby, Hoby, Rotherby, Ragdale, Kirby Bellars and Brooksby.

Bishop Martyn is asking for urgent financial support for our partners in India.  We are hoping to help them purchase a new ambulance, oxygen concentrators, a ventilator and other equipment costing a total of £80,000.

Our Diocesan Director of Education, Canon Carolyn Lewis has been asked by the Rt Rev Libby Lane, Bishop of Derby to lead the work of Derby’s Diocesan Board of Education for an interim period. Carolyn will undertake this role in addition to her role in our diocese and so become one of the first Executive Diocesan Directors of Education (DDE) in the Church of England. This is a pioneering step for both Leicester and Derby’s education teams.

Bishop Martyn unveiled the quilt at a special service at a church in Castle Donington

A small network of churches and Christian organisations around the diocese have come together to help provide jobs for young people at risk of long-term unemployment.

We are now taking bookings for the 2021/22 academic year. Find out more, download our new leaflet and learn more about the course here.

This morning (17 May) saw not only the re-opening of the diocesan offices in St Martins House, but also the relocation to it of the much-loved "Statue of the Welcoming Christ" from Launde Abbey, the diocesan Retreat House, and the opening of Cafe No 7 (formerly the White Rose café), which is open to the public and located in St Martins House, next to the Cathedral.