About Us

At the heart of what we are trying to do is a conviction that the gospel of Jesus really is good news for everyone. Our passion is to create a space where people can explore what that looks like here in Nottingham.

We believe this begins by having honest, open conversations around four key principles or values that shape healthy and hopeful life:

1.  Social justice — enabling everyone to flourish; supporting those in need and challenging systems that marginalise.

2. Full inclusion — ensuring all God’s people are welcomed, affirmed, and able to contribute fully, with no hidden clauses.

3. Open, progressive theology — theology as a shared conversation, engaging with the Bible thoughtfully; grounded in the love of God, the inclusion of all, the renewal of all things.

4. Informal, accessible gatherings — creating a space where anyone can come as they are, without needing insider knowledge or prior experience.

Our focus right now is to see how these can be lived out across Nottingham, this could be by gathering similarly-hearted people together to discuss, to support one another. It could be by resourcing and equipping people to talk about them in their own churches and communities.  In our experience most churches in Nottingham are already doing many of these, but we are not aware of a city church committed to all four of these things.

In articulating these values, we have taken inspiration from the Oasis Church Network and the values that they call their “distinctives”. They do not currently operate in the East Midlands and to the best of our knowledge are not working with any other churches in Nottingham, but we have started a conversation as to how we can use their ideas here.

For now our task is as follows: to listen, to gather, and to grow a group of people who want to understand and live by these values, and see them how they might impact Nottingham.