We strive to make our deanery a place which brings our parishes together to promote a culture of sharing ideas and developments and of lifting our horizon beyond the parochial and benefice groups.

Redditch and Bromsgrove Deanery are significant urban centres in the Diocese of Worcester. The Deanery, as a whole serving over 140,000 people with 23 parish churches in areas of varying affluence and social dynamic in urban, suburban and rural contexts. Our key priority is ‘collaboration’ as we seek to discern what we can do better together to fulfil our mission than individually, and we are working for all centres of worship across our area to be healthy sustainable fellowships living out their unique call to be Kingdom People.

The Deanery Chapter, includes 6 full time stipendiary ministers and 6 self-supporting ministers alongside other some active minsters with permission to officiate. Chapter is a relaxed and supportive space where we share in fellowship and prayer and seek to support each other. Our lay members bring valuable experiences and skills to support the life and work of the church and the Deanery.

Our Synod meetings seek to provide information and support and grow relationships. We have a number of exciting and innovative projects taking place. In Bromsgrove we are looking to make strategic appointments to allow this part of the Deanery to embrace its distinctive identity. In Redditch we have started an exciting Redditch Mission Area (RMA) project. This project seeks to realise the benefits of churches working more collaboratively to enable each to become healthy and sustainable. We are working on facilitating our churches by providing practical centrally funded support, enabling our churches to develop their local missional identity, and encouraging people to share in areas of mission which cover the whole mission area and are better done collectively than alone. A recent example of such collaboration was the Christmas Toy appeal that brought volunteers together from across the RMA. This successful venture was recognised by the High Sheriff Award and is a testament of what can be achieved when churches all work together. In addition to this we have a significant, centrally funded, Church Renewal at St Stephens Church with a new Renewal Lead Minister joining in September 2024.

These are exciting times for us as a Deanery and Diocese