As a Cathedral at the heart of our community and diocese, we are seeking to tackle the important issues;
- to allow space for healthy debate
- to be good stewards of this earth
- to be a voice for the vulnerable and marginalised
- to be a place of action that makes real and important changes towards a better future.
ECO Cathedral
As a Cathedral community, we are committed to caring for God’s Creation; we are a Partner in Action with A Rocha UK.
The Anglican Communion’s fifth Mark of Mission is
“to strive to safeguard the integrity of creation, and sustain and renew the life of the earth.”
We have adopted an ethical and sustainable framework to guide our policies and practices. In-line with the Eco Church framework, we divide our activity under the following areas: Worship & Teaching, Buildings, Land, Community & Global Engagement, and Lifestyle.
Healthy Healing Hub
“The ministry of healing and wholeness is at the centre of our life as a Cathedral. We are committed to the Cathedral itself being a place of healing, offering visitors opportunities to pray and to experience hope and peace during difficult times."
In partnership with The Guild of Health and St. Raphael, we have become a Healthy Healing Hub, offering support for health and wellbeing to the local community and empowering other organisations within the Diocese to do the same.
Central to our focus for 2022 and beyond, this partnership will put the needs of the community and diocese in prime position, seeking to ‘recover together’ following the traumatic circumstances of the last few years.
"Silence and beauty combine to nurture the soul."
As a Gold-Tier Healthy Healing Hub we seek to serve as a centre of excellence and training.
FairTrade Church
We are a FairTrade Church, committed to using fairly traded products and promoting fair trade. Find out more about Fair Trade: www.fairtrade.org.uk
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Let’s Talk – about keeping our children safe
Families from Staffordshire, Shropshire and the West Midlands are invited to a special event at Lichfield Cathedral on Saturday 18 September from 10.00-12.00 to consider together the impact of modern slavery and how to keep our children safe.
The event, which is being organised by the Mothers’ Union, Transforming Communities Together and Lichfield Cathedral, will bring together parents, grandparents and their children and grandchildren (from the age of 10 upwards) to discuss this growing issue. The children themselves will be encouraged to consider, together with their parents and grandparents, how to stay safe in an increasingly complicated world. The event will include quizzes, art and talks. Support will be offered by the Children’s Society, the West Midlands Police and the Blue Bear Coffee Company, which uses its profits from selling coffee to support the fight to end modern slavery.
Criminal exploitation, human trafficking and modern slavery are on the increase in our region, with children being groomed into drug gangs, forced begging and shoplifting. Often the grooming happens online. The event aims to encourage and equip families with the correct information to enable them to have safe open honest conversations with their children.
Debbie Huxton, a Modern Slavery Campaigner who has been funded by the Mothers’ Union to work with churches across the Midlands to detect modern slavery and support victims, said, “As Christians we’re given a clear mandate to love and care for those who are affected by injustice and exploitation. There is much we can do to prevent exploitation happening. We can also learn how to spot the signs of it in our local communities. Through this ‘Let’s Talk’ event, we want to empower people of all ages to gain a better understanding of these difficult subjects and to learn how to safely act.”