**CCN UK & Ireland** 

## **Annual Report 2022-2023** 

## _**Current members (not including International Cross of Nails Schools, most of which are based in the UK)**_ 

Abbeydale & Millhouses Parish, Sheffield; All Saints’, Allesley; The Ammerdown Centre; the Anglican  Communion  Office;  the  Anglican  Pacifist  Fellowship,  Arden  Marches  Group  of Parishes;  the  Barnabas  Fund; the  Bergen  Cathedral  Community;  Christian  Aid; Cord; the Corrymeela Community; Coventry Cathedral; the Crossfire Trust; the Fellowship of Reconciliation; the Flightpath of Friendship; the Flodden Peace Garden; Global Care; Guys’ & St Thomas’ NHS  Trust Chaplaincy Team;  HMP Onley; Holy  Trinity, Brussels; Holy  Trinity, Coventry; Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Chaplaincy Team; Lambeth Palace; Marygate House; Mosaic Middle East; Mothers’ Union Coventry & Warwickshire; Mothers’ Union Worldwide;  Philo  Trust;  Queens  Road  Baptist  Church,  Coventry;  Reconciliation  Initiatives; Southwark Cathedral; St Alfege’s Greenwich; St Christopher’s, Allesley Park & Whoberly; St Clement Danes, RAF central church; St Edward King & Martyr, Cambridge; St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation & Peace; St James’, Fletchamstead; St James’, Southam; St John Fisher, Coventry; St John the Evangelist, Kenilworth; St Luke in the City Team Parish, Liverpool; St Martin-le-Grand, York; St Mary’s, Warren; St Michael the Archangel, Southampton; St Peter’s & St Oswald’s, Sheffield; the Student Christian Movement; the Third Order of the Society of St Francis; Touch of Hope. 

In addition, a number of people and institutions are affiliated to the Community for various personal and historical reasons, which we warmly welcome and encourage. The constitution of the CCN (UK & Ireland) recognises the importance of these relationships and links, and allows and encourages people to become individual members of the CCN. We are looking for a membership lead to enable this. 

## _**Activities 2022-23**_ 

Three partners were welcomed during 2023: St Mary’s Warren (May), the Hull University Teaching  Hospitals NHS  Trust  Chaplaincy  Team (July), and  the  Ammerdown  Centre (September). The Ammerdown Centre also joined Together for Hope, the CCN’s inter-faith sister network. As with other CCN partners, they have a fascinating and unique story as part of St Paul’s call to engage in the ministry of reconciliation; for them, this includes a commitment to inter-faith relationships and racial justice. 

A  number of  members  joined  the  international  gathering  in  Coventry  in  May  2023,  and continue  to  join  pilgrimages  and  share  information,  as  well  as  work,  pray  and  worship together.  We  would  welcome  a communications  lead  to  help  regularise  these  important interactions, which play to the strengths of each of our partners, such as the hosting by the Ammerdown Centre of NHS chaplains in need of a retreat. The national board chairs also gather together regularly to share updates across the global network, and agreed in 2023 to add “justice” to the third CCN priority. 

At the UK & Ireland level, plans for 2023-24 include formalisation of institutional and individual membership as well as gatherings to understand themes such as gender identity and justice, knife crime, and the role of hospital chaplaincies, as we seek to understand how in different ways we can heal the wounds of history, learn to live with difference, celebrate diversity, and build a culture of justice and peace. 

## _**Finances 2022-23**_ 

To date the charity has had no income or incurred any expenditure. Volunteers (including trustees) pay personally for their expenses to support the charity and its activities. 

## **Approved by the board on 30 September 2023** and signed on its behalf 

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September 2023............................................................. 

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