News & Stories

A report assessing the impact of work to develop a wide variety of non-traditional forms of church shows significant growth in worshippers

Our most recent confirmations saw 21 people confirmed by Bishop Guli and marked an historic moment as she is thought to be the first female Bishop to confirm her own children into the Church of England

Louise Davis has taken up the role of Chaplain to Leicester City Women Football Club and has been getting to know the players and club members in recent weeks. Louise will be a pastorally proactive, spiritually reactive, non-judgmental listening ear for the club, working with everyone from the Under 9s girls to the physiotherapists, while focusing on the first team female players.

At their recent 2019 AGM, a thousand Mothers’ Union members were encouraged to continue sharing God’s love and deepening their everyday faith, including in a talk by one of our own church leaders from here in Leicestershire

One of our Deaneries has successfully established a prayer initiative, thanks to a Growth Fund grant. They found inspiration for this project from the Try Praying initiative which aims to make prayer accessible to everyone outside of the church. They found inspiration for this project from the Try Praying initiative which aims to make prayer accessible to everyone outside of the church.

The Bishop of Leicester is calling for action to reflect the importance of church Children, Families and Youth Workers

As many young people will be heading to university, maybe for the first time, or to continue their studies. Lots of students live away from home, experiencing new things and meeting new people. Ruth shares her experience of living out her everyday faith as a student...

The Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha Foundation makes major donation to the Leicester Cathedral Revealed

Some of our churches supported the ‘Christians at Pride’ stall at Leicester PRIDE recently and marched in the parade to remind people of God’s love for all God’s children. In addition, there was a Pride Celebration Communion service at All Saints with Holy Trinity, Loughborough and a Rainbow Eucharist at Saint Nicholas, Leicester the same day.

Young people from our churches joined 10,000 other young people at Soul Survivor taking place in the East of England show ground in Peterborough. One group took 22 young people and eight youth workers, adult helpers and clergy to the Christian Youth Festival, from five churches.