Revd Christine Worsley, Revd Jeremy Caddick and Revd Canon Les Oglesby from Ely Diocese and Jean Reed and Coline Quine from the Grubb Institute shared their experiences of grappling with the challenge of taking forward the Diocesan mission strategy and engaging clergy and laity throughout the Diocese.
The morning session provided an overview of the Ely [...]
As part of our programme to share ideas and reviews about leadership across the country, the FCL held its fifth regional consultation in Portsmouth for the southern dioceses on March 24th 2009.
FCL made two presentations. In the first he examined definitions of leadership, five ways in which leadership can be understood and the [...]
Despite the weather forecast, it did not deter the 32 delegates from 13 dioceses who had booked to attend the fourth FCL Regional Consultation, Ministerial Development Review in the Diocese of Blackburn, held at Whalley Abbey, Tuesday 6th January 2009.
The programme commenced with Bishop Nicholas Reade introducing ‘Why Start from Scratch’; their early thinking. Sandra Cobbin then [...]
In December 2006 The Foundation for Church Leadership awarded a £5000 grant to fund a project ‘Listening Hearts’ by Canon Dr Arun John and his team in the Bradford Inner Ring Group.The aim of ‘Listening Hearts’ was to gather and reflect upon stories of work being done by local church people who live and work [...]
The first regional conference by the Foundation for Church Leadership Leading for the Future was held at Southwark Cathedral Conference Centre on September 3rd 2008
After a welcome from Dame Janet Trotter, Chair of FCL and a brief description of the work of FCL, Lynwen Plowman introduced the Southwark programme and described the work of her review. [...]
The ‘Leading from the Future’ conference took place on Wednesday, September 24th at Ushaw College Conference Centre, Durham.
Listeners heard a presentation of the Diocese of Newcastle’s Clergy Leadership Development Programme Leading from the Future by Colin Gough and the leadership team.
A presentation was also made of the recently published Revealing Leadership by Martin Kitchen. This FCL [...]