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Churches across diocese benefit from Cultural Recovery Fund

Submitted by jack.bacon on Tue, 24/11/2020 - 15:35

Churches across the diocese have been awarded some £1 million from the government’s Cultural Recovery Fund to help preserve our heritage buildings during the pandemic. The Culture Recovery Fund...

Christmas in Leeds to include drive in services

Submitted by jack.bacon on Mon, 23/11/2020 - 12:50

Churches in Leeds are getting ready for Christmas, with Advent activities including Drive-In services. Wortley and Farnley Parish have teamed up with St Luke's Holbeck to organise two Family Drive-In...

Minster wins Covid-19 support grant for vital roof repairs

Submitted by chris.tate on Wed, 11/11/2020 - 16:35

Leeds Minster has received a much-needed grant of £326,237 from the Government’s £1.57billion Culture Recovery Fund to pay for vital roof restoration. The Minster is one of 445 heritage organisations...

Sri Lankan priest joins the Diocese of Leeds

Submitted by richard.earnshaw on Tue, 10/11/2020 - 09:10

Chamil Fernando, an Anglican priest from Sri Lanka, has arrived in Leeds with his family this week, to study and serve in the Diocese of Leeds. Chamil will live in the Parish of Pudsey with his wife...

St George's Crypt celebrates 90 years

Submitted by jack.bacon on Thu, 15/10/2020 - 14:30

A well-known Leeds charity that supports homeless and vulnerable adults has been celebrating its 90th birthday this week. On October 14 St George’s Crypt Leeds launched a virtual year of birthday...

Leeds church goes green with Eco Church Award

Submitted by jack.bacon on Wed, 07/10/2020 - 10:55

One of our Leeds area churches has had their green activities rewarded, by achieving their Bronze Eco Church Award. All Hallows in Bardsey got their award by completing the Arocha Eco Church survey,...

Mother's Union supports youth work in Leeds

Submitted by jack.bacon on Tue, 06/10/2020 - 12:04

The Mother’s Union in the Diocese of Leeds has been supporting us in many different ways during this time, and recently have used the PPE they have been making to support youth work in Leeds. Many...

Leeds church at heart of community with new defibrillator

Submitted by jack.bacon on Tue, 08/09/2020 - 15:47

A Leeds church is putting itself at the heart of its area with the installation of a new defibrillator. St Edmund’s Church in Roundhay has had it put in place as part of a Leeds Council scheme to...

Holy Trinity Boar Lane

Sam Corley, the Rector of Leeds, shares a short update about the exciting progress being made to Holy Trinity, Boar Lane. It is hoped works, to help create a new place of worship and prayer for the centre of Leeds, will be complete towards the end of the year. Read more here about the progress of some of the current SDF projects taking place across the diocese.

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Work continues to build new places of prayer and worship in city centres

Submitted by jack.bacon on Thu, 03/09/2020 - 11:44

Work is continuing at two city centre churches looking to bring worship and prayer to the heart of Bradford and Leeds. Fountains Church Bradford and Holy Trinity Boar Lane in Leeds are both churches...