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We’re a Church of England church, in the Diocese of Leicester.
We’re part of the West Leicester Mission Partnership with the Church of the Martyrs, Holy Apostles church, St Anne’s and St Paul’s with St Augustine’s.
We work with the Braunstone Community Association, delivering “A New Deal for Braunstone” (part of the government New Deal for Communities programme).
We want to welcome and include everyone.

New

  • B Inspired
    The new name for the BCA (Braunstone Community Association), the organisation that is delivering the government's New Deal for Communities programme in Braunstone
  • Chris Burch's Model Railways
    When Chris Burch takes time off, he often "plays trains". This site describes his model railway layouts.
  • Turning Point Women's Centre
    This is a local organisation that exists to inspire women and their families to change their lives and their communities for the better

History

  • Oral History Archive at Leicester University
    Braunstone exhibition of the East Midlands Oral History Archive at Leicester University. For information and sound clips of interviews about Braunstone's history and development, together with some personal stories and anecdotes.

Local

  • Blessed Sacrament Roman Catholic Church
    Our local Roman Catholic Church, who are members of Churches Together in South West Leicester and the Braunstone Faiths Forum
  • Braunstone Sure Start
    Sure Start is a Government funded programme that works to improve the quality of life for children from birth through to 4 years of age and their families. We aim to achieve this goal through a wide range of new or improved services.
  • Church of the Martyrs
    One of the churches in our West Leicester Mission Partnership
  • Families in Focus
    A locally based project based with Turning Point Women's Centre dedicated to families learning together.
  • Holy Apostles Church
    One of the churches in our West Leicester Mission Partnership
  • Patricia Hewitt MP
    The Member of Parliament for Leicester West, which includes our parish
  • Streetvibe Young Peoples Service
    provides a comprehensive service for young people in Braunstone and beyond. This includes a Detached youth project, outreach with the Streetvibe bus, the Youth Affairs panel and services based at the Grove in Cort Crescent

National and International

  • Anglicans Online
    An independent website serving the entire Anglican Communion worldwide with a News Centre, New This Week, and a thoughtful front-page letter. Updated every Sunday, there are more than 10,000 links to parishes around the world and to a variety of resources
  • Anti-Slavery: today's fight for tomorrow's freedom
    The world's oldest international human rights organisation and the only charity in the United Kingdom to work exclusively against slavery and related abuses.
  • Christian Aid
    A development organisation that works in more than 50 countries helping people regardless of religion or race to improve their own lives and tackle the causes of poverty and injustice
  • Church Community Workers Alliance
    CCWA stand for the process of community development work as the most empowering and enabling way for the church to express its beliefs in action, in ministry and in mission.
  • Church Mission Society (CMS)
    St. Peter's has supported CMS mission partners with prayer and money.
  • Church Urban Fund
    CUF supports social action in some of the poorest areas of England working closely with the local parish church. They currently help support the work of our Community Worker, Chris Florance.
  • Diocese of Trichy-Tanjore
    The Diocese of Trichy-Tanjore, in the Church of South India, has been linked for the last 7 years with Leicester Diocese, and the Revd Suresh Kumar was, until May 2009 on the staff team of St Peter’s.
  • Faithful Cities
    The report from the Archbishops Commission for Urban Life and Faith. It is about the areas we live in and how we interact within our communities and society; socially, politically and spiritually and asks us to think about the challenges we all face.
  • Hope Africa
    The social development programme of the Anglican Church in Southern Africa - St. Peter's supports Hope Africa through prayer and money, and receives their newsletter. Chris Burch (the Vicar) has visited South Africa and seen their work first-hand.
  • Inclusive Church
    "We have a vision of a liberal, open church which is inclusive of all, regardless of race, gender or sexuality. We firmly believe that this vision can and must, be rooted in the scriptures."
  • National Estate Churches Network
    - This group seeks to bring together those churches working in the urban estates across the country. St Peter's is a member.
  • New Deal for Communities
    The UK government's programme for regenerating deprived areas
  • Set All Free - Act to End Slavery
    A Churches Together in England collaboration which aims to remember the past and apply its lessons to tackle the legacies of Transatlantic Slavery and its modern day equivalent.
  • The Church of England
    The Church we belong to - part of the world-wide Anglican Communion
  • United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (USPG)
    Another mission agency of the Anglican church that enables people to grow spiritually, to thrive physically and to have a voice in an unjust world.
  • Urban Expression
    An urban mission agency that recruits, equips, deploys and networks self financing teams pioneering creative and relevant expressions of the Christian Church in under-churched areas of the inner city

Leicester

  • Christ in the Centre - Good Friday
    Churches Together in Leicester City Centre organise this on Good Friday.
  • City of Sanctuary
    City of Sanctuary is a movement to build a culture of hospitality for refugees and asylum-seekers. Leicester is working to become a City of Sanctuary
  • Clockwise
    Leicester's credit union: a financial co-operative owned and controlled by its members. We have a collection point available on a Wednesday morning from 10.00am - 11.00am.
  • Leicester City Council
    St Peter's is in Leicester, a city with a population of approximately 290,000. It is the largest city in the East Midlands region and the tenth largest in the country. Its importance was first recognised by the Romans and later by the Danes.
  • Leicester Council of Faiths
    The network that brings together the faith groups of the City of Leicester.
  • Leicester diocesan guild of church bell ringers
    promote church bell ringing in the leicester area and includes a directory of bell towers
  • The Diocese of Leicester
    The division of the Church of England that covers Leicester and Leicestershire, and includes us

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