Members of the new URC Nominations Committee introduce themselves and how the drive to safer recruitment is having a positive impact on the committees and volunteers that help the church in its life and mission.

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The United Reformed Church works in 13 Synods - the National Synod of Wales, the National Synod of Scotland and 11 Synods in England, each with a Moderator and a team to help churches with property, finance, training, safeguarding, ecumenism and youth work matters.

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At the URC's Assembly Executive in February 2025, a session was dedicated to the ongoing work after the confession and apology in 2022 for the role of the church's antecedents in transatlantic slavery, and its continuing complicity in the legacies of the trade today.
Introduced by Sarah Lane Cawte, Convenor of the URC's Mission Committee, the meeting was shown the film of the URC-led ecumenical trip in 2023, when its apology was delivered by the Revd Tessa Henry-Robinson. The film shares some of the atrocities of slavery, its impact past and present, and how the apology from the URC was received.
After the film, Reform magazine editor Steve Tomkins interviewed the Revd Geoff Felton, Moderator of the URC Mersey Synod, about his sabbatical which focused on Legacies of Slavery. Steve also read answers from Tessa, who was unable to be at the meeting.
You can read about Geoff's sabbatical on the Reform magazine website, www.reform-magazine.co.uk
Photo: Social History Archive/Unsplash

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