Leading Your Church Into Growth is an independent charity. We receive no financial support from the Church of England, no commissioners funding and no grants.

Our only income comes from direct giving, sale of our resources and the modest charges we make for our courses.

With one or two exceptions all our team are unpaid, have other full-time jobs and give us their time freely.

At the core of our work there are our national conferences...

• A northern conference in the autumn at The Hayes, Swanwick, Derbyshire
• A matching southern conference in the spring at High Leigh in Hertfordshire (Through churches often swap over to attend the one that suits them.)
• We also run contextualised courses for catholic churches and for those on housing estates or in deep rural settings
• Finally, we run specialised training courses in evangelism and youthwork

• Some send a group of clergy and lay leaders every year on one of our national conferences
• Others send all those who have taken on a new parish in the previous year
• Every year about four or five dioceses ask us to run their own Leading your Church into Growth event
• We are sometimes asked to go a bit further and help a diocese build its own Leading your Church into Growth team
• We are regularly asked to do ‘taster’, follow up and additional teaching days

Most dioceses already have a group of growing churches and others who, in contrast, don’t seem that interested. In between the two ends of the convoy however there is a great bunch of churches and leaders looking for help. Usually these are the ones who respond best to the input of Leading your Church into Growth.

This process usually begins with a diocese making contact with us for an exploratory conversation.