Local Ecumenical Partnerships

LEPs come in a variety of forms, but each is a situation where more than one Christian denomination is working together under a formal agreement. These agreements are 'sponsored' by a County or City Ecumenical Body which has the responsibility for supporting, encouraging and monitoring them.

In the list of LEPs, you will find local churches who share their congregational life, local shared buildings, covenant partnerships within chaplaincies and other situations.  To find LEPs in your locality, click here and enter your own postcode.

A treasury of information on LEPs resides in Ecumenical Notes. Click the links for constitutional guidelines, for information and help about reviewing LEPs and for a miscellancy of documentation about LEPs in general. If yours is a shared building, then this is the page you want.

The biggest LEP change for some time is a new Charity Commission requirement for Single Congregation LEPs. Click here for more information and to find out if your LEP needs to act -- because if it does, it needs to do so quickly!

Further information: The national Field Officers for the North & Midlands or South of England, Ecumenical Officers in cities and counties and from the Ecumenical Officer of your own denomination.