Inclusive Church Annual Lecture and AGM 2023 (hybrid)

The 2023 Inclusive Church AGM and Annual Lecture will take place at St John's Waterloo and online. The speaker this year will be Canon Rachel Mann, full-time Area Dean for Bury and Rossendale, author, poet and broadcaster. The title of her talk will be ‘Finding Hope in the Fragility of God’.

We are celebrating 20 years of Inclusive Church as a charity this year, so come along and celebrate with us! We will also be telling you about a new 20th anniversary book we're bringing out later this year, and you'll be able to pre-order it at the AGM.

Rachel is unfortunately unable to be present at St John's but will be speaking via video link to those at the celebration in the church and those following online.

Timings

6.30pm Registration

7pm AGM

7.15pm Annual Lecture

7.45pm Q&A

8pm Light buffet and drinks (on site), small conversations (online)

8.45pm END

Accessibility Info

Main entrance on Waterloo Road – to the right is a fixed ramp. Handrail for stairs.

First door opens automatically without a button to push. There is a lift to the left. Button to operate lift – button does not need to be held down. Lift is for descending to crypt below and all meeting rooms and toilets on the lower level.

Second door opens automatically with a button to push. This takes you through to a large entrance hall. This entrance hall has a welcome desk and a glass door through which you can see the main church.

The third door is automatic with a button to push. This takes you through to the main church area. There are no pillars blocking views in the church area.

In the church area, there are 200 or so moveable and separate chairs with cushioned backs and seats. They don’t have arms. There are some wooden chairs with arms available if needed and it may be possible to find cushions for these.

There is a small kitchen for staff in the entrance hall behind the welcome desk, which staff can serve drinks from if needed.

There are stairs down to the lower level from the entrance hall, but equally you can go back through the automatic door to the previous smaller entrance hall with the lift on one side and go down in that. The lift comes out directly opposite the accessible toilet, which also contains a baby changing facility and an accessible shower.

There are individual genderless toilets in the downstairs underground area.

There is accessibility information and pictures of St John's on the AccessAble website.

Extra Information

This is a HYBRID event, so you can also attend online. See below for different ticket options. Tickets which say 'Donations' are also tickets - Eventbrite labels them like this.

There is no café in the church, but there are many food places all around the church.

There will be refreshments (nibbles and drinks) at the end of the event - there will be vegan, gluten free and alcohol free options available.

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