An update from the safeguarding team about DBS checks following the APCS data breach last year. As a diocese, we will shortly be moving to ThirtyOne:Eight for diocesan checks and parishes are invited to also register with this umbrella body.
Sian Morgan has been appointed as our new Diocesan Children and Young People Lead in the Transformation Support Hub team, which is funded by the national church.
Christian Aid supporters across the country are coming together for the 2026 Changemakers Conference. In Worcester, a ‘watch party’ will be held at St George’s Church.
Our diocese has been chosen as one of four dioceses to pilot the new Buildings Management System (BMP) to be launched this year.
St Philip’s Church in Webheath, Redditch recently welcomed families from across the area for a lively Paddington Craft and Film Day filled with creativity, colour and a great deal of orange peel.
All Saints Church in Sedgley held a pancake party in the church hall on Tuesday morning with over 85 children attending. Many of the parents present expressed an interest in bringing their children to other things, including potential New Worshipping Communities being planned.
Bishop Hugh visited St Stephen’s Church in Redditch on Ash Wednesday where they were hosting a ‘Lightbox’ drop in event for young people, followed by jacket potatoes for the community ahead of their Ash Wednesday service.
The Revd Jacqueline Shalloe and Joseph Diwakar have become co-chairs of the diocesan Racial Justice Forum, taking over from Kashmir Garton and Bishop Martin who previously shared the chairing of the group.
Today, on Ash Wednesday, to mark the start of Lent, Mission Priest Sarah Roberts-Malpass took to the streets and visited a Kingswinford shopping parade to offer ‘Ashes to go’ to passersby.
POP-up Church is a New Worshipping Community set up at St John’s Church in Kidderminster in partnership with St John’s CE Primary school, following an iSingPOP main event in school in January 2025. Last weekend they celebrated their one-year anniversary!
This year’s diocesan Lent Appeal will be for our partner diocese of Peru, where they are asking for donations towards their Mission Church in the Amazon rainforest.
In this year's Lent message, Bishop Hugh encourages us to consider using the 40 days to commit to a specific discipline which will help us to live life more fully with God and for God.
St James Church in Welland has been awarded £140,533 from The National Lottery Heritage Fund towards their project “Future-Proofing our Heritage”. The funding will primarily enable both the organ and 1897 Jubilee clock to be refurbished, and for a new infrared heating system to be installed.
Jamie, Klair, Assistant Curate at All Saints in Worcester has visited a church in Norway which is part of the Porvoo Communion, a group of 15 churches throughout Europe who have agreed to ‘share a common life’ and ‘to pray for and with one another’.
The General Synod has today backed a diocesan synod motion from our diocese encouraging churches and cathedrals to explore ways of arranging flowers that are both beautiful and environmentally responsible.
Over 60 people came to the annual Candlemas lunch for retired clergy and bereaved clergy partners, held at the Old Palace in Worcester on 3 February.
As General Synod prepares to consider our diocesan motion on Sustainable Church Flowers (SCF) on Thursday, Kate Hurst, churchwarden in The Shelsleys and founding member of the SCF Movement, explains why she got involved and why all churches can benefit.
Yesterday to mark the 85th anniversary of the formation of the Air Training Corps, a special service was held at St Mary’s church in Kingswinford, attended by Bishop Hugh.
A new initiative in Bredon is bringing people together to play board games once a month on a Friday morning in the village hall.
Over the past seven months St Stephen’s Church in Redditch has been regularly present on Ward 12, a dementia ward at the Alexandra Hospital, offering music as a simple but powerful way of meeting people where they are.
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5th March 2026