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Parish ProfileLincoln High Street Parishes, Lincoln, Lincolnshirewith HMP LincolnDiocese of Lincoln in Archdeaconry of Lincoln

October 2011

The Revd Jeremy Cullimore

Sibthorp Street,Lincoln, Lincolnshire,LN5 7SP

Telephone: 01522 542908Email: jscullimore@b3nternet.com

Date of Birth: 15 March 1953Ordained Deacon: July 2006Ordained Priest: July 2007Licensed: January 2010

Previous Experience2006-2009 Assistant Curate at St Denys, Sleaford.2003-2006 Pre ordina3on training, Westco4 House, Cambridge1997-2003 Bernard Ma4hews Ltd. Tasked with HR responsibil

i3es for the five factories in Norfolk.1992-1997 Service in Bosnia as a mobilised Intelligence Corps Officer.1983-1992 Welbeck/Golin Harris Communica3ons. Rose to become a director in this

mul3-na3onal company and specialised in corporate crisis management.1977-1983 Intelligence Corps. Rose to the rank of Major and was responsible for training units in

two appointments. Specialised in Human Intelligence and as a linguist.1972-1977 Ar3cled to then worked for a firm of Solicitors in the City of London specialising in li3

ga3on.

Other Clergy in the Below Hill Federa3onNot including a number of re3red clergy

Revd Canon Angela Pavey, St Faith’s, (also NHS Mental Health Chaplain)Revd David Edgar, St Swithin’s, All Saints and Lincoln College ChaplainRevd Andrew Vaughan, Industrial ChaplainRevd Liz Jackson, Assistant Curate, High Street ParishesRevd Jonnie Parkin, All Saints Nocton and U2Charist ProjectRevd Dr Neil Burgess, NSMRevd Julia Hart, NSM

Incumbent

Training Post for:

Deacon who expects to be ordained PriestMarried couple in ministry

Lincoln Cathedral is one of the finest medieval build-ings in Europe and towers above the City of Lincoln,a prominent landmark for miles around.

The imposing West Front incorporates the survivingpart of the first Romanesque Cathedral da3ng from1072, but most of the Cathedral dates from the 13thcentury when, inspired by St Hugh (Bishop from 1186-1200), the Cathedral was re-built in the new gothicstyle.

However, it is a mere newcomer when compared totwo of the three High Street churches for Lincoln’shistory as a city began in Roman 3mes. The 200 foothigh escarpment that divided the legionary fortressfrom the commercial area, ‘Below Hill’, s3ll dividesthe city into two parts. The Below Hill area has beena thriving commercial centre since the Legions came,long before the Cathedral was built.

We know that the suburb of Wigford which grew oneither side of Ermine Street had at least two parishchurches in the 10th century as they s3ll serve todayand the area con3nues to be a lively place where in-dustry and commerce thrive alongside a largeresiden3al popula3on.

The City was on the front line during the English CivilWar and suffered greatly. It did not recover un3l theeighteenth century.

The agricultural revolu3on replaced the old, tradi-3onal trades with engineering and the city became aworld centre for agricultural machinery produc3on.

The City was on the front line during the English CivilWar and suffered greatly. It did not recover un3l theeighteenth century.

The agricultural revolu3on replaced the old, tradi-3onal trades with engineering and the city became aworld centre for agricultural machinery produc3on.

At the southern end of the High Street as it enters thecity the mul3ple retailers give way to more independ-ent retailers and convenience stores and restaurantsserving the popula3on living in the rows of terracedhouses on either side of the High Street.

These terraced houses are homes to a wide variety ofpeople just like any modern city.

The tradi3onal community is now aging, but lowhouse prices have a4racted many including a signifi-cant number of E. European migrants and students atthe University whose main campus lies alongside theHigh Street parishes.

The growth and success of the University over the last10 years has had a huge impact for the good on theCity of Lincoln.

Lincoln is a small city with a popula3on of around90,000, but large enough to contain everything a cityneeds.

Detailed informa3on on the city and the dis3nc3vefeatures of each specific district, called characterareas, can be found at:www.heritageconnectlincoln.com

Parish Setting

The Below Hill Federa&on

The three Lincoln High Street Parishes joined withthree neighbouring parishes and the Chaplainsworking within the area in an informal federa3on in1999.

Collec3vely the Federa3on covers the three CityCouncil Wards of Abbey, Park and Carholme whichmake up the south of the city centre ‘below the hill’.The hill itself is such a significant feature that theroad up it is actually called ‘Steep Hill’.

There is a good working rela3onship between thethree s3pendiary clergy and the Federa3on pro-vides the focal point for NSM and re3red clergy tooffer their ministry. This is an important feature ofthe Federa3on for an Assistant Curate as it gives atleast two dis3nct opportuni3es:- We each preside and preach at the other churchesso an Assistant Curate will experience a variety ofliturgical styles and worshipping communi3es.- Whilst there will be a single Training Incumbent asthe focus, the depth and breadth of experience heldby the other clergy will be available to the AssistantCurate so that the most appropriate trainer will beable to guide and reflect with them on each area.

St Mary le Wigford hosts Morning Office on Tues-days which is a4ended by all the Federa3on clergywho can make it and Café Nero hosts the useful pe-riod of discussion and fellowship which follows.

Twice a year all the clergy go to a local RetreatHouse for an opportunity to reflect on our ministryand to discuss the future.

The Federa3on is not merely a device for the clergy,but is operated through a Council with two lay rep-resenta3ves from each parish. Each year thedifferent parishes gather at one church to celebrateits patronal fes3val and share fellowship.

At the recent 12th Anniversary celebra3ons, key in-fluen3al people from the life of the City wereinvited as the opportunity was taken to show andcelebrate the important contribu3on that thechurches of the Below Hill Federa3on have alwaysmade to the life of the City of Lincoln.

The Below Hill Federa3on is linked to a Federa3onof five Roman Catholic parishes in Bruges as part ofa formal rela3onship between the Diocese of Lin-coln and the Diocese of Bruges.

There are regular visits by both clergy and lay peo-ple and a real commitment to learning from eachother and building fellowship and understanding.

The Below Hill Federa3on provides an excellentforum in which parishes can retain their dis3nctiden3ty yet, through co-opera3on, achieve morethan they could alone.

Parish Setting (cont’d)

St Mary le Wigford with St Mark and St Benedict

St Mary-le-Wigford church is the oldest church inLincoln and evidence of its 10th century Saxon ori-gin can be clearly seen in the church. The tower wasadded in the late 10th or early 11th century incor-pora3ng a re-used Romano-Bri3sh memorial stonepanel in its lower western face with the originalLa3n text in the lower square.

A#er the 1644 siege of Lincoln, in the English CivilWar, most churches were stripped of their ves3gesof Anglicanism, if they were lucky enough to sur-vive, but fortunately St Mary-le-Wigford remainedlargely intact and was the only church in this part ofthe city holding regular church services at the 3meof the Restora3on.

The Mayor and Corpora3on recognised the church’simportance and in 1720, gave the magnificent brasschandelier which hangs in the Choir to this day andSt Mary le Wigford is the Civic Church of Lincoln.

With a total popula3on of less than two hundredactually living within the parish boundaries it is farfrom being a tradi3onal parish church!

This was recognised and in 1975 a significant re-or-dering was completed and St Mary le Wigfordbecame the base for the City Centre Ministry whichincluded providing a base for the Industrial and Re-tail Chaplaincy, amongst others.

Alas the vision of a city centre ministry was lost andthen there was a ten year vacancy.

Only the self-sacrificial ministry of the Church War-den and a Reader kept the church alive, but due totheir age, this was only for a few hours a week whenvery tradi3onal services were held a4rac3ng ahandful of people.

In 2008 a diocesan Fresh Expression project, called‘BeA5tude’ was created and housed in St Mary leWigford, aimed at suppor3ng the homeless, vulner-

able and marginalised of the city under the leader-ship of a full 3me lay minister (since ordained andnow Assistant Curate in the High Street Parishes).The current incumbent was licensed to the HighStreet Parishes in early 2010 and St Mary le Wigfordhas placed mission at the centre of its plans for thefuture.

‘BeA5tude’ has become the founda3on for the res-urrec3on of the City Centre Ministry which uses the1975 Church Hall as a base.

What was effec3vely a dead building right at thebusiest part of the city is being transformed by thiscommitment to mission.

The City Centre Ministry is now a permanent basefor the BeA5tude Community, it has provided aNight Shelter for homeless Eastern European mi-grants during the heavy snows of 2010 and has aDay Centre which begins each day by serving 30-35breakfasts.

A wide variety of specialist support to the vulnera-ble and marginalised is being created and deliveredas needs are recognised.

A new community of people have been a4racted as‘volunteers’ to support this work (many from otherdenomina3ons and some even not claiming to beChris3an, though by their acts….). In 2011 a newPCC and Church Wardens were elected.

The Churches

The Sunday morning Eucharist has been replaced byan evening service created in response to a requestfor worship by people coming for the evening mealand now regularly a4racts over 25 mostly‘unchurched’ people.

The liturgy is experimental with an emphasis on thesacraments on Sundays, with a more tradi3onal mid-week Eucharist.

St Mary le Wigford is, despite the building’s great age,effec3vely a church plant with a shop window forGod’s Love in a prime, retail loca3on that most HighStreet chains would envy.

Dra# plans for a major re-ordering have been ap-proved by the DAC and English Heritage in theexci3ng context of a major High Street redevelop-ment.

These plans seek to exploit the strengths of the build-ing and its loca3ons so that it can witness for another1,000 years.

Funding is a constant issue for the church and its min-istry which par3cularly relies on prayer, grants andthe generosity of donors.

The Holy Spirit is moving at St Mary le Wigford andwe are doing our best to keep up!

A newly ordained deacon expec3ng to be ordainedpriest will find not only a mul3tude of opportuni3esto develop and experience ministerial skills availablehere.

The opportuni3es for honing mundane skills aboundas the major reordering of this architecturally impor-tant building in the context of a redevelopment of theCity Centre provides a wealth of opportuni3es to dis-cover Faculty procedures and liaising with Planningbodies.

In addi3on nearly every procedure and rou3ne re-quired of a parish or chari3es had been gradually

abandonedover thedecade of va-cancy.

Their reintro-duc3on fromscratch andtraining newchurch mem-

bers in them is an educa3on in itself.

St Peter at Gowts and St Andrew

Originally known as St Peter-in-Wigford, the churchis one of the oldest in Lincoln and is on the High Streetjust north of the bridge crossing the Great Gowtdrain.

The “long and short” cornerstones visible in the west-ern corners of its nave show the church has Saxonorigins. The 11th century tower appears to have beenadded during the same period as that at St Mary-le-Wigford.

The tower incor-porates aRoman-Bri3shm e m o r i a l ,showing awinged figureon a throne witha set of keys.This could rep-resent eitherChrist in Majesty or St Peter.

St Peter-at-Gowts is famous for ge5ng Edward King,one of the most famous Bishops of Lincoln, into trou-ble.

It was here that there were too many candles on thealtar and water was mixed with wine, etc. for whichhe was summoned before the Archbishop of Canter-bury for ritualis3c prac3ces!

The Churches (cont’d)

The stretch of High Street running south from the rail-way crossing to St Peter at Gowts Church shows greatdiversity and depth of historic character.

The High Street, at this point, has a large number ofindependent businesses, including a number of spe-cialist E. European food shops and is therefore animportant area for Lincoln’s local economy.

The closed church yard is a deligh2ul area of greenalong the High Street and therefore a4racts a numberof weddings, funerals and bap3sms, but more can bemade of this poten3al gathering place for the com-munity.

St Peter at Gowts Primary School is around one hun-dred yards further south on the High Street and areregular users of both church and hall as they have asmall site on which to operate.

The school is making significant strides forward andwe hope to con3nue to build on our rela3onship infuture.

The style of worship preferred by the congrega3on,who are largely a mature group, is conserva3ve andEucharis3c. We have therefore begun the ‘Servicewith a Smile’ aimed ini3ally at families with childrenat the school and this is showing promise.

The Church Hall is just fi#y yards along the High Streetfrom the church. It is in the south range of the me-dieval St Mary’s Guildhall and is the venue for a widerange of community ac3vi3es as well as church use.St Peter at Gowts enjoys a good rela3onship withboth the Salva3on Army and the Central MethodistChurch which are nearby on the High Street.

Terraced houses on either side of the High Streetmake up the majority of residen3al housing. As inmany urban areas like this the sense of communitythat once existed has been broken down as incomers,including many students and E. European migrantshave moved in.

The City Council have taken this seriously and have acommitment to suppor3ng and ini3a3ng ac3vi3eswhich build a sense of community.

An insight can be gained onwww.mazema4ers.org.uk which is a community web-site they have sponsored covering the residen3al arearoughly similar to St Peter at Gowts and St Botolphby Bargate parishes.

St Botolph by Bargate

The original church of St Botolph-by-Bargate, whichs3ll has part of its founda3ons surviving in the presentchurchyard, was built in the early 12th century. Thiscruciform-plan church was second in status only toLincoln Cathedral.

It was located on the southern edge of the city as StBotolph is the patron saint of travellers and hischurches are usually on the edge of a town or city.

During the English Civil War this loca3on made it veryvulnerable to the Roundhead forces who stripped thelead off the church roof in 1644 to make their musketballs! This le# the church open to the elements, andin 1646, the church began to fall down!

The current church (built in 1721) is a more-modeststructure than the original which spread across whatis now the High Street and originally only consistedof a Tower, Nave, and a Chancel.

In the 19th century, two side Aisles and a SouthChapel were added. The church tower contains alarge propor3on of stone re-used from the original12th century church (including the carved head of alady wearing a wimple).

The parish is s3ll as it was historically, the gateway tothe lower medieval city that was the southern partof Lincoln which is now the main retail area. On oneside is the South Common (where the Fair and Circusput up their tents) on the other is the busy dual car-riageway that is the High Street.

The Training Opportunity

Roads of Late Victorian/Edwardian terraces run offboth sides of High Street, including many cul-de-sacsconstrained by Sincil Dyke to the east or the RiverWitham to the west. There are fewer retail busi-nesses, but more restaurants and food shops.

The interior of St Botolph’s is well equipped with aWC, kitchen and office or mee3ng rooms. There is s3llmuch to be done to de-clu4er various storage areaswhich will make more space available for wider usesthan just the Sunday Service. much to be done to de-clu4er various storage areas which will make morespace available for wider uses than just the SundayService.

This is important as the church rents its Church Hall toa community Art Group who are able to use it effec-3vely, but limits space for parish ac3vi3es.

The liturgy on Sunday is a Mass, with incense, accom-panied by lively hymns. The community who gatherto worship is growing and there is a coffee morningevery Wednesday.

Bishop King Primary School has a close rela3onshipwith the church and has recently received an ‘Out-standing’ result in its s48 Inspec3on. We have a‘Make, Break and Bake’ family service on alternateSundays in term3me.

The churchyard around St Botolph’s is large, but un-a4rac3ve so the PCC is ac3vely inves3ga3ng ways ofmaking the building more invi3ng.

At the heart of this is the plan to reflect their dis3nc-3ve spirituality with a development of the site byinstalling a prayer labyrinth.

Lincoln University are helping transfer an original de-sign intended for Lincoln Cathedral to transform thearea by crea3ng probably the most important newlabyrinth in decades to the benefit of both the localcommunity and the city as a whole.

St. Botolph’s has historically been a small, but livelycommunity on the edge of the City. It remains so, butwith an op3mism and desire to serve well into the fu-ture.

The High Street Parishes as a Training Opportunity

The three High Street parishes are moving through aperiod of profound change. Only twenty years agoeach of the three churches had its own Vicar andserved a dis3nc3ve community.

However, the last 20 years has seen a period of pro-found change for both the City and the parishes.

St Mary le Wigford had a long vacancy that took it tothe brink of redundancy and St Peter at Gowts and StBotolph by Bargate have now shared a Vicar for adecade whilst seeing their former dis3nc3ve, se4ledlocal communi3es change with the influx of a widevariety of incoming residents.

The Deanery plan is to lose at least two more s3pen-diary posts so confidence in the future of the parisheswas not high.

The current incumbent was licensed in January 2010to all three parishes against the Deanery plan as ourBishop was not prepared to abandon the High Street.

At this 3me there is no formal grouping of theparishes, but rela3onships are strong and there is agrowing op3mism about the future.

This is an exci3ng 3me in a busy and exci3ng placewhich presents many opportuni3es for a newly or-dained deacon intending to be ordained priest.

The two tradi3onal parishes offer the full range of ex-perience that can be found in a modern, urban cityand where any element is in short supply, e.g. NursingHomes, that can be found within the wider Below HillFedera3on.

Further information

The Purpose of a Curacy

to share in the mission and ministry ofthe People of God in a par3cular place and

to establish pa4erns of prayer which willshape and sustain ministry, in order

to acquire the knowledge, skills and ex-per3se in ministerial, representa3ve andsacramental leadership in the local church andthe Church of England;

to reflect, in supervision, upon a widerange of experiences, in order to develop min-istry in the curacy and for the future.Par3cipa3ng fully in IME will also be part of this;

to encourage personal developmentthrough integra3ng past experience, spirituality,and theology with the prac3ce and understand-ing of ministry.

Bishop’s Notes for Training Incumbents and Curates

Each tradi3onal parish has its own Primary Schoolwhere opportuni3es to engage abound and each hasits own set of social organiza3ons.

At St Mary le Wigford where there is no tradi3onalparish popula3on, let alone worshipping community,the City Centre Ministry provides the opportunity fora wide range of social ac3on projects.

At the heart of this ministry is the belief in the healingpower of a community and so ‘BeA5tude’, a commu-nity of the marginalised and excluded, lies at theheart of our ministry.

This will involve working with a vast number of agen-cies and organisa3ons such as the Prison Service,Proba3on and Social Services.

In contrast it is also the Civic Church of Lincoln andhosts numerous Civic Services every year as well asbuilding a new ministry to tourists and shoppers.

Releasing and empowering lay ministry is a key to allour other ministries and the opportunity exists toshare in leading the excellent courses developed bythe diocese for lay ministers.

Further informa&on

The Revd Canon Dr Jeffrey HeskinsDiocesan Director of Ordinands and Voca3onsDirect: 01522 504029Switchboard: 01522 504050Mobile: 07590 950040Email: jeffrey.heskins@lincoln.anglican.org

Further Information& Contact Details

HMP Lincoln

About the Prison

HMP Lincoln opened as a local prison in 1872 holdingremand and convicted prisoners. The Establishment isa category B prison holding adult male remand/con-victed prisoners and unsentenced young adultprisoners. HMP Lincoln serves the courts of Lin-colnshire, Leicestershire, No5nghamshire andHumberside.

Address: Greetwell RoadLincolnLN2 4BD

Tel: 01522 663000Fax: 01522 663001

Governor: Ian Thomas

Accommoda3on: HMP Lincoln has a total of 436 cellsspread across four residen3al wings, a segrega3onunit. The four residen3al wings are:A Wing – Induc3on UnitB Wing - ConvictedC Wing – ConvictedE Wing – Vulnerable Prisoner UnitD Wing – Segrega3on Unit

Opera3onal capacity: 738

The Chaplaincy Team

The Co-ordina3ng Chaplain:The Revd Andrew Roberts (Church of England)

Ecumenical Chaplains:The Rev Joy Osbourne (Nazarene Church)Miss Lorna Palmer (Roman Catholic Church)

Administra3on Officer:Adonis Worden

Sessional Chaplains:The Rev Carol Munn (Church of England)Fr Colin Taylor (Roman Catholic)Mrs Sheila Mullenger (Church of England)Imam Shaffi Choudry (Muslim)Mr Jeremy Hawkins (Buddhist)Mr Saweed Singh (Sikh)Rabbi Moshe Perez (Jewish)Mr Pravin Ruperalia (Hindu)Father Philip (Orthodox Church)Mrs Angela Langrick (Pagan)

The Chaplaincy team have access to the whole prisonand minister to staff and inmates alike.

There is a large chapel, an office and mul3-faith roombut other rooms and places are also used for chap-laincy ac3vi3es.

The Chaplaincy team is mul3-faith and so are thosewho use the Chaplaincy… all faiths and none arecatered for! This makes for a really interes3ng and di-verse working pa4ern! Chaplains may belong to apar3cular faith tradi3on but are usually called upon towork with people of any faith and none. Being a teamworker and the willingness to work with every Chap-lain is is essen3al in this calling.

Volunteers and PVs

Chaplains are supported and many extra things hap-pen through the important ministry of volunteers andprison visitors. Volunteers help with services (musi-cally, some lead services etc.), Bible Study, Living withLoss etc. Prison Visitors see up to two prisoners oncea fortnight. This is par3cularly useful when men haveno family or friends or a family that cannot or won’tvisit the prison.

Services

Sunday:09.00 Ecumenical Chris3an Service15.00 Roman Catholic Mass (Vulnerable Prisoners)Monday:14.00 Muslim Theology (Main Wings) and Bible

Study (Vulnerable Prisoners)Tuesday:14.00 Roman Catholic Mass (Main Wings)Wednesday:14.00 Bible Study (Main Wings) and “Living with

Loss” Course (held in the designated wing).Thursday:14.00 Alpha Course and post Alpha Fellowship

GroupFriday:09.00 Muslim Theology (Vulnerable Prisoners)13.30 Salat ul Juma’ahSaturday:09.00 Ecumenical Chris3an Service (Vulnerable Pris

oners)

In addi3on the other religious groups offer faith serv-ices/ counselling etc. at other 3mes. Every offenderis able to have an hour of corporate worship eachweek.

The Ecumenical Chris3an Services are taken by all theChris3an Chaplains and therefore may be largelyRoman Catholic, Anglican, Free Church or Orthodox– quite a variety!

Volunteers o#en come in to help with services (Or-

ganists, pianists and groups) to lead services.

Offenders are o#en very moved by the services andother sessions and report that a great difference hascome over their lives.

As well as corporate worship Chaplains will lead pri-vate services in men’s cells , the mul3-faith room, orin the Chapel for themselves, their rela3ons andwhen bereaved. Chaplains offer bereavement sup-port on an individual basis with a prisoner. Chaplainshelp offenders to maintain links with their homeplaces of worship and can arrange for the relevantpriest/minister to visit the prisoner.

We also arrange a certain amount of support for thefamily for example being a contact in 3mes of be-reavement.

Chaplains support those prisoners who are at riskfrom suicide or self harm. Rarely, but tragically,deaths do occur. If the chaplain has had significant in-volvement with the deceased then they may berequired to a4end the inquest. The chaplain alsoworks closely with the Family Liaison Officer on theseoccasions.

The Church and the Community

This work is quite unlike work in a Parish! There arevery few weddings, no funerals (but there are memo-rial services) and a sprinkling of bap3sms(approximately 15 a year) all, of course, of adults.

Weddings: Whilst it is theore3cally possible to marryin prison this is understandably rare – it is preferableto wait un3l the end of a sentence and anyway theprison will have to sa3sfy itself that there are no se-curity issues or public protec3on issues before awedding takes place.

Funerals: The chaplaincy receives news of a death ofa rela3ve of an offender, engages in a process thatverifies that death (via the Coroner’s office or Mortu-ary) and informs the offender of the death. This canbe a harrowing 3me for the prisoner (and the chap-lain!) and a lot of pastoral care is given at this point.The Chaplaincy also finds out about the funeralarrangements and informs the offender of these – ifhe wishes to a4end the funeral details are sent on tothe Security Department which then decides if that ispossible. Frequently chaplains will lead short memo-rial services at this 3me.

Bap3sms: This clearly involves quite a lot of prepara-3on and catechism and is usually done in either oneof the main services or as part of Alpha or Bible Study.Alpha: There is a weekly Alpha Group following theusual Alpha Course pa4ern though with coffee, teaand biscuits.

Bible Study: This takes place weekly – we follow theE100 Bible Reading Challenge as this allows men tocon3nue the Challenge having le# the prison.

Bible Study Vulnerable Prisoners: This takes placeweekly.

Living with Loss: Again weekly this covers all sorts ofloss.

Muslim Theology Class: This takes place weekly ex-ploring various aspects of faith, worship and prac3ce.

The Chaplaincy works closely with a variety of otherdepartments within the prison – Rese4lement, Drugs,Educa3on, Healthcare, Mental health etc.

A very exci3ng new development is Community Chap-laincy. This aims to take our work with offenders intothe community with newly released ex-offenders,mentoring, pastoral care etc.

Chaplains’ Typical Day

08.00 Arrive at gate08.05 arrive in office08.30 (Thursday only) Chris3an Staff Prayers09.00 Start of morning ac3vi3es• Induc3on of new offenders – interviewingeach offender separately and explaining the work ofthe Chaplaincy and helping them to se4le into prisonlife. This is a very important first contact when menare o#en very frightened and homesick.• Mee3ngs with other staff.• Pastoral work throughout the prison.• Visi3ng offenders in the Segrega3on Unit.• Visi3ng those on constant watch and in dan-ger of suicide/self harm and ACCT reviews (reviewingthose in danger of self harm etc.)• Muslim Theology11.30 Visi3ng lunch queues12.30 Lunch break and preparing for a#ernoon ac3v-i3es, administra3on etc.13.30 Start of a#ernoon ac3vi3es• Alpha• Visit Segrega3on Unit• Bible Study• RC Mass• Muslim prayers• Living with Loss• Pastoral visi3ng etc.16.00 Complete a#ernoon ac3vi3es, administra3onetc. Prepare for the next day.16.30 Leave gate.

Offenders’ day

08:00 Offenders go to Ac3vi3es or remain incell (Workshops / Educa3on etc.)

11:00 Exercise11:30 Lunch12: 15 Lock up13:40 Unlock14.00 Offenders go to Ac3vi3es (Workshops

/ Educa3on etc.)14.30 Associa3on (30 minutes each)15.50 Return from Ac3vi3es16:30 Commence serving tea and receive

breakfast pack.17.15 Lock up17:45 Associa3on (30 minutes each)19:15 Lock Up

Context for Ministry

The Chaplaincy is commi4ed to serving the needs ofprisoners, staff and religious tradi3ons by engagingall human experience. We work collabora3vely, re-spec3ng the integrity of each tradi3on and discipline.

We believe that faith and the search for meaning di-rects and inspires life, and we are commi4ed toproviding sacred spaces and dedicated teams todeepen and enrich human experience.

By celebra3ng the goodness of life and exploring thehuman condi3on we aim to cul3vate in each individ-ual a responsibility for contribu3ng to the commongood. We will contribute to the care of prisoners toenable them to lead law-abiding and useful lives incustody and a#er release.

This is done in the context of the main purposes ofthe Prison Service which is about punishment and re-form in order to protect the public and reducereoffending.

Who are we looking for?

Someone who• feels they have a voca3on to work in this very

special situa3on• is a good team member able to work with col

leagues and offenders of any faith or none.• enjoys considerable variety in work and some

very unusual challenges.• is very willing to learn.• has a good sense of humour!

What would you get out of working with us?

• Working in a mul3faith, ecumenical and mul3cultural team. The living embodiment thatreligious people can and do get on together.

• Working with other members of the prisonstaff with all their different disciplines.

• Working with people who are going throughvery low spots in their lives.

• Helping to prevent reoffending and thereforehelping to cut crime and future vic3ms.

• Helping to bring order into chao3c lives.• Develop your ministry in a very special con

text.• Recep3ve environment – you’ll be able to

share your faith and respond to a person’sneeds when he or she (because we are working with prison staff too) really do want toknow what you think.

• You will need very quickly to think about andrespond to prisoners concerns.

• You will have immediate and honest feedback!