Meeting Documents

Main points of Convenors meeting: Wednesday 24th September 2025

Written by NBCW Leadership
  • The Education booklet has now been published and will be available on request in printed form
  • A “Chaplains in Education” webinar is planned for the spring.
  • The Online Safety Act and the End of Life Bill are likely to be the focus for upcoming webinars from the bio-ethics committee.
  • Concern was expressed that the debate around the End of Life Bill has overshadowed the valuable work of the hospice movement.
  • The Women in the Church Book Club will be restarting on Monday 6th October. The focus is “For the Good of the Church: Unity, Theology and Women” by Gabrielle Thomas. The book is a development of original research undertaken on behalf of the NBCW by Gabrielle so this is a ‘full circle’ choice of book.
  • An in-person speaker event has been confirmed for 24th April 2027.
  • The Eccumenical Committee are continuing their work with other organisations and looking at how communities are becoming more multicultural in many parts of the country.
  • The NBCW will have delegates at the WUCWO conference in Budapest.
  • The next Andante study day will be in Walsingham, September 2026
  • The Social Responsibility Committee have been working hard towards their next event “Keeping Women Out of Prisons”. Attendees have been asked to register for this in advance.
  • The next meeting will be Wednesday 26th November