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Know Your Hirer – A TMCP Resource

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One-off bookings can be a great way for Local Churches to raise additional income and engage with the wider community. However, accepting bookings is not always a simple question of whether or not space is available at a certain time. 

A booking by a particular group or for a particular purpose could lead to unintended consequences and reputational damage, particularly in these times of societal division.

TMCP have put together a list of questions that you can run through to ensure you “know your hirer” before accepting bookings. You can access the list through here.

Introducing Our New Energy Broker

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2buy2 Energy Broker

Global energy markets remain highly volatile, with prices affected ongoing supply uncertainties.

For managing trustees, this makes budgeting and financial planning for your church’s increasingly challenging.

The 2buy2 Energy Basket offers a more stable approach by spreading energy purchasing over time. This helps reduce exposure to price spikes. Rather than trying to time the market, this strategy enables managing trustees to manage risk more effectively and plan with greater confidence.

Click here to learn more.

Taizé trip for young adults | 25th July – 3rd August 2026

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If you’re 17 – 25 years old, how about a week in rural France with other young adults from around the world?

The Darlington Methodist District is organising a visit to the Taizé Community: a group of Christians from different traditions who live together in a simple way to show unity and peace. You’ll share in prayer, reflection and conversation, with space to explore faith and life’s big questions together.

Thanks to generous funding, the cost is just £150. Contact Joel Baldry ASAP to register your interest, or forward this email to a young adult you know who’d love this opportunity.

Digital Transformation and the Methodist Church

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The Methodist Church is three months into a digital transformation! As part of this the digital team are looking to hear from Methodist people – anyone – who might have thoughts about what Digital should be or mean for Methodism in the UK.

If anyone would like to have a voice into this (including people who don’t really know about digital, techy things, all opinions  are welcome, not just the computer enthusiasts!)  then there is a link to a survey below. It doesn’t take too long to fill in.

Click here to complete survey

Lost in Wonder

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For a number of years now a team of folk from across the Connexion have been present on the Royal Mile for a week during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, inviting people into conversation, hearing their stories and blessing them on their way. This year, the engagement at the festival will be led by City of Edinburgh Methodist Church and folks from across the Scotland Circuit. We will be present on the Royal Mile for one day (Saturday 15th August), timings tbc though likely 10-5 (including breaks).

Could you join us? Don’t worry about feeling like an evangelism expert, Cameron Lee-Hume from the Evangelism and Growth team as well as Kathryn Campbell from the Learning Network will be supporting the team in advance, and on the day itself. This is a great opportunity to learn together, grow in evangelistic confidence and hear some wonderful stories!

To sign up please complete this form.

If you have any questions in advance, please feel free to email james.patronbell@methodist.org.uk

Have Your Say on Digital in Our Church – And help your church community do the same

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We’re three months into the Digital Transformation Programme, and so far the listening has been mostly with district chairs, superintendents, circuit administrators and other roles. That’s been hugely valuable – but there are voices we still haven’t heard, and they’re exactly the voices that ought to be shaping this work.

We’d like every local church to help us widen the conversation.

We’ve opened a short survey for anyone – ministers, stewards, regular worshippers, volunteers, family members. Spread the word by using our downloadable notice sheet inserts and screen slides to bring your church community into the conversation.

We will read everything that comes in. At the end of every month we’ll publish a short ‘Here’s what we heard’ post on the programme page that names how many responses came in, the themes that emerged and what we’ve done or forwarded in response.

Have your say here

The Beckly Lecture 2026 – Together towards life in a world of division

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Monday 29 June from 6.45pm at the Methodist Conference, Telford.

In a world where political leaders invoke the language of civilisation to justify exclusion, where
creation care is dismissed as a cult, and strangers are feared, what does faithful Christian mission
look like? And what does it demand of us?
For the Beckly Lecture’s 100th anniversary, Roland Fernandes, general secretary for the General
Board of Global Ministries of The United Methodist Church, will bring an international perspective
to some of the most pressing questions facing the global Church today.

Attend in person or watch the livestream. Register for either.