Families on Fridays
We are sharing stories from a few projects supported by previous rounds of the Development Fund. A new after-school club…
Our common vision
Diocesan Synod “ March 2022
Diocesan Synod members gathered online for the first meeting of 2022 on Saturday 12 March. The meeting began with Dwelling…
Great and Small Cotswolds
Whilst sitting in church one Sunday, Samantha Hill had a bright idea to start an intergenerational forest church group in her village of Alvescot in the Cotswolds. With the PCC, incumbents and benefice…
The coffee morning bringing the generations together
A place to feel wanted and welcomed After watching the Channel 4 documentary The Old People’s Home for 4 Year Olds,…
The community project helping children living in poverty smile this Christmas
Churches in Bicester have come together to support a special Christmas toy shop at the local Food Bank, providing brand…
Toddlers in the Woods
Every Friday, Ali Cork welcomes a group of energetic toddlers to the local Crutches Wood in Jordans village, for a…
The Church Arms
After the village pub in Mursley was boarded up in October this year, St Mary the Virgin Church, in Buckinghamshire,…
Tree planting in Hungerford
St Lawrence’s Church, Hungerford, has planted nearly 3,200 trees in 2021 as part of efforts to offset the carbon emissions…
Feeding Milton Keynes
The Bishop of Oxford, the Rt Revd Dr Steven Croft, went to see St Mark’s Meals, a food box service,…
Planting new congregations in High Wycombe
In 2018, after much prayer and lamenting about where God might be leading St Andrew’s Church, Hatters Lane, a small…