Primary-aged children from schools across the diocese came together to celebrate creative eco action and caring for God’s planet in the Leicester Diocesan Board of Education’s first ever Eco Schools Extravaganza.
As part of an ongoing provision of support, the Archdeacons of Leicester and Loughborough warmly invite PCCs and Trustees to come together for a training morning. The mornings are designed to help whole PCCs and clergy in understanding, managing, and fulfilling their responsibilities as trustees.
The Revd Martyn Snow, Lord Bishop of Leicester, and the Rt Revd Saju Muthalaly, Bishop of Loughborough, share their message for Easter 2026.
A small team from the Diocese of Leicester recently travelled to our Link Diocese of Trichy‑Tanjore in the Church of South India (CSI) to strengthen long-standing partnerships, share ministry expertise, and deepen intercultural connections. The visit - our first since the Covid pandemic - was Intercultural and Intergenerational Ministry in action, a reconnecting of communities, with the group returning to Leicester feeling spiritually inspired and energised.
The Bill to remove the two-child limit in Universal Credit was debated in the House of Lords today (12 March 2026). The Rt Revd Martyn Snow, Lord Bishop of Leicester, addressed the House with a speech highlighting how the limit deepens both material poverty and the sense of shame experienced by families, reinforcing harmful assumptions about their responsibility and worth. He called for cross‑party collaboration on how to end the policy and address the wider structural and emotional impacts of poverty on people’s lives.
As a source of study and reflection during Lent, the ‘Sisters’ of the Church of the Martyrs in Leicester are concentrating on stories of the ‘unseen’ women of the Bible, shedding light on the lives and characters of women often overlooked in Scripture, but deeply significant in God’s redemptive plan.
What if your ministry, the outworking of the life of Christ, wasn’t just inside a church building… but in the heart of everyday life? In workplaces, schools, universities, prisons, hospitals, airports, the armed forces, even alongside civic leaders - chaplains bring hope, faith, and presence where it matters most.
The Bishops’ Lent Appeal for 2026 is in support of Family Holiday Charity, an organisation dedicated to helping families struggling with some of life’s toughest challenges.
At the Parish Church of St. Mary in Charnwood, food, nature and play have become fundamental pillars for relationship-building.
A new podcast is entering the preaching landscape – a reason to open your app, hit play, and dive deep into the conversation...
