Safeguarding Policy – City United Reformed Church

Safeguarding Policy Extract City United Reformed Church encourages all individuals that use the building to play their part in: creating and maintaining a safe environment for all, especially children and adults at risk, so that the dignity of each person is respected. being informed about different forms of abuse and harassment and how to respond […]

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Questions for our times

It’s 4am. Can’t sleep. I have been ‘hyem’ – that is ‘home’ in dialect – fear not Boris, only in memory! That’s what it is like in lockdown. And this by virtue of two books sent to me by friends: Northumberland and its People, and the other, From Shiels to Shields, North Shields on the […]

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City Church’s link with Cardiff’s Friend of Freedom

City forefather who dared to tangle with the BATCHELOR Butes. Some City folk know that I have been writing the story of City URC – that goes back some 400 years! – for a history journal. Then while the journal was in production, David Meek, who kept me straight on the financial side, told me […]

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Read Reform for free!

For as long as people are shut up indoors, Reform magazine is free to read online. Just click here.As in the words of a popular British children’s programme, why don’t you switch off the TV and do something less boring instead during this coronavirus lockdown? Read May’s edition of the United Reformed Church’s Reform magazine. The May issue, […]

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City friends coffee morning

We miss meeting up in our building so have moved to an online coffee morning each Saturday at 10.30am Please contact the Church Secretary if you would like to join in with this time for catching up with each other and sharing news and views.

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Table Talk reimagined

For years City United Reformed Church has held Table Talk as a regular feature of our journey together.  Normally, this was held following worship on a Sunday, meeting around a table, sharing food and company and much discussion on a particular theme.  We met about once per month.  During the closure of the building, it […]

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Something New

Something New Posted by Revd Martha McInnes on Saturday, March 21. 2020 “Please don’t say that.”  I do not want to hear anyone say COVID-19 is the end of the world.  Yes, I know we have had locust swarms of “biblical proportions” in Africa.  There are droughts across the world and floods close to home.  […]

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Resident candle-maker

We have an accomplished candle-maker in our midst!  Shown is a photo of the first session with tutor at ‘Wax the matter’ – pretty impressive!  Have you discovered who has this gift?  A clue: they are used to lighting candles, often at the start of worship.

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