Leeds Church Institute

Address: 43 The Calls Leeds, LS2 7EY

Charity number: 220966

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Charity objectives: TO PROMOTE, ADVANCE AND MAINTAIN WITHIN THE PART OF THE CITY OF LEEDS WHICH IS WITHIN THE DIOCESE OF LEEDS AND ELSEWHERE IN THAT DIOCESE RELIGION AND EDUCATION (BOTH RELIGIOUS AND SECULAR) CONSISTENT WITH THE CHRISTIAN FAITH AS EXPRESSED BY CHURCHES TOGETHER IN ENGLAND

Last recorded income: £150,446

Last recorded expenditure: £383,318

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Come As You Are: Poems for Advent from disabled Christians

05/12/25
Waiting in Nature: A botanist’s reflections for Advent

05/12/25
Building Resilience Through Storytelling

04/12/25
In Solidarity with New Testament Church of God Leeds

25/11/25
Prophet or Provider: Soup vs Systems

28/10/25
Honouring 150 Years of Walter Hook

14/10/25
Loud Racism! Silent Churches?

05/09/25
LCI Staffing Update

05/09/25
Interculturalism, Faith and Racial Justice in Leeds

14/08/25
Reclaiming Histories: Slavery, Race and the Churches

11/07/25

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You can find Chris’s full reflection here

https://chrisswift.blog/
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Churches Together in Britain and Ireland who have Christians developing annual resources and having ongoing racial justice conversations throughout the year

https://ctbi.org.uk/our-work/racial-justice/
Churches Together in Britain and Ireland have produced resources around this year’s theme of ‘Coat of Many Colours’ which you can find here.

https://ctbi.org.uk/resources/racial-justice-sunday-9-february-2025/
Hamara

https://hamara.org.uk/
Churches Against Racism steering group meeting

https://lcileeds.org/churches-against-racism-six-months-on/
Leeds Church Institute

https://lcileeds.org/history/
https://lcileeds.org/that-you-may-be-healed-how-can-we-repent-from-the-sin-of-racism/

https://lcileeds.org/that-you-may-be-healed-how-can-we-repent-from-the-sin-of-racism/
https://lcileeds.org/the-wisdom-of-inclusive-growth-how-can-art-help-us-dream-of-a-better-future/

https://lcileeds.org/the-wisdom-of-inclusive-growth-how-can-art-help-us-dream-of-a-better-future/
Bagman of Bagley

https://lcileeds.org/what-are-you-looking-for/
You can download the resource as a pdf here

https://lcileeds.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Questions-Against-Racism.pdf
You can see the full list of signatories here

https://lcileeds.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Christian-Leaders.pdf
Chocolate Digestive (6 minutes)

https://lcileeds.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3ca8b921489b22bf859ae5859&id=5caeea7b85&e=f3c6dcfb58
Visitor (8 minutes)

https://lcileeds.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3ca8b921489b22bf859ae5859&id=f1be8a477f&e=f3c6dcfb58
Leeds North and West Foodbank

https://leedsnorthandwest.foodbank.org.uk/
misinformation and disinformation regarding immigration and people seeking asylum

https://liverpoolexpress.co.uk/the-truth-about-immigration-refugees-and-people-seeking-asylum/
Think for Wellbeing

https://thinkforwellbeing.co.uk/
Transformations Leeds

https://transformationsleeds.org.uk/
Aaron Burden

https://unsplash.com/@aaronburden?utm_content=creditCopyText&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=unsplash
Unsplash

https://unsplash.com/photos/open-pocket-bible-on-green-surface-UIib0bAvWfs?utm_content=creditCopyText&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=unsplash
Lent book

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sterne-Lent-Chris-Swift/dp/1912728923/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
the MP who was suspended for using racist language and advocating for white supremacy

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czjkdgyj2zko
ââ¦raised in a racist home â and it’s been a long journey to unlearn those attitudes.â

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/opinion-unlearning-racism-1.5740131
Big Give Christmas Challenge raised over Â£44.7 million

https://www.charitytoday.co.uk/big-give-celebrates-christmas-challenge-becoming-uks-biggest-public-fundraiser/
Responding to Questions Against Racism event

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1381688099299?aff=oddtdtcreator
upcoming event which puts Faith, Racial Justice, and Interculturalism in dialogue with each other

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1389090229269?aff=oddtdtcreator
Join us by signing up here.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/interculturalism-faith-and-racial-justice-tickets-1389090229269
This vision is at the heart of the 2025 Hook Lecture, titled âProphet or Provider.â

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/prophet-or-provider-the-hook-lecture-2025-tickets-1312712802329?aff=oddtdtcreator
Art Theology Festival

https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/wisdom-rooted-in-place-art-theology-festival-2025-4149433?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=creatorshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=odclsxcollection&utm-source=cp&aff=escb
only receiving between Â£9.95 or Â£49.18 per week for basic needs

https://www.gov.uk/asylum-support/what-youll-get#:~:text=Cash%20support,person%20in%20your%20household%20instead.
Jon Kuhrt suggests in a blog post

https://www.hopeintoaction.org.uk/blog/homelessness-isnt-just-for-christmas
Shandy Hall Museum

https://www.laurencesternetrust.org.uk/
Diocese of Leeds Justice and Peace Commission website

https://www.leedsjp.org.uk/2025/06/10/10-june-reclaiming-histories-slavery-race-and-the-churches/
the Methodist Church who have decided to make racial justice one of their public priorities since 1978

https://www.methodist.org.uk/for-churches/the-inclusive-methodist-church/racial-justice/
https://www.mjr-uk.com/

https://www.mjr-uk.com/
remains vocal and strategic about challenging racism

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/13/church-of-england-influence-extreme-views-cuts-anti-racism-bishop-of-kirkstall-funding
the Church of England are starting to acknowledge and have conversations about how the church was built on slavery, and their entanglement in the transatlantic slave trade as âone of the biggest benefactors of slavery.â

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/25/revealed-how-church-of-englands-ties-to-chattel-slavery-went-to-top-of-hierarchy
Conversations are taking place about the ways Christianity is being used to stoke the rise of the far right.

https://www.theosthinktank.co.uk/events/2025/01/30/christianity-and-far-right-extremism
Chocolate Digestive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrXiHsRTRfQ
Visitor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVPuCLWxPqs
acknowledges that silence from leaders in midst of injustices may be helpful at times but detrimental, if done incorrectly

https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/education/a-time-to-speak-and-a-time-to-keep-quiet-ethics-and-silent-leadership/
Richard Reddie, Director of Justice and Inclusion for Churches Together in Britain and Ireland (CTBI), was the speaker at Leeds Church Instituteâs flagship event, The Hook Lecture

https://youtu.be/7ptaJ04gNP0?si=Y_B4K55qqZV7b5HT
see the full recording here

https://youtu.be/7ptaJ04gNP0?si=ZjevgvhudPt6h4HV
The 2022 Hook Lecture by Professor Christopher Baker

https://youtu.be/PZBTF0VFaS0?si=mMPaCYT4xk2FeJF3
Leeds Lives podcast series

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEftS5V4grJwP5OgDRc1Eekq-iP3Q5afV&si=V1GA3y64OXHVb6xi
hear responses from Leeds community leaders here

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEftS5V4grJyrv2_IzDBZMKZzIhLkfcXm&si=_MmrtCMrH8BBXluU

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