Growing Together in Education

The Churches are committed to being involved in education at all levels, and close co-operation has developed in some schools, universities and theological training institutions.

Schools

St Bede’s, Redhill is world's only state-funded, fully ecumenical Christian comprehensive secondary school. Founded by the Church of England Diocese of Southwark and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Arundel and Brighton, it works in formal and close partnership with local Free Churches (Methodist, Baptist, United Reformed and other Churches).

St Bede's School

Other joint schools:
Joint primary schools include: All Saints, Cambridge; The Bishops’ School, Chelmsford; Emmaus School, Liverpool; The Faith School, Liverpool; St John’s Sunderland; Christ the King, Macclesfield.
Joint middle school: St Edward’s Royal Free School, Windsor.
Joint secondary schools and academies include: St Cuthbert Mayne School, Torquay; St Augustine, Taunton; St Bede, Cambridge; St Michael, Barnsley; St Edward, Poole; St Francis Xavier High School, Richmond, North Yorkshire; Emmaus, Sheffield; Holy Family College, Heywood, Rochdale; Christ’s College, Cheltenham; St Francis of Assisi, Liverpool; St Chad’s, Runcorn, St Aidan’s / John Fisher 6th Form, Harrogate

Universities
Liverpool Hope University is a liberal arts university growing out of three colleges founded to educate Anglican and Catholic teachers, with roots going back to 1844. The university is one of the abiding fruits of Merseyside's famous flourishing of ecumenism.

The Chapel at Liverpool Hope

Theological Education
“Roots down, walls down, bridges out…” describes the ethos and vision of the Cambridge Theological Federation, which developed in the 1990s to bring together the teaching and learning of seven institutes through which people of different churches – including Anglican, Methodist, Orthodox, Reformed and Roman Catholic –train for various forms of Christian ministry and service.