Bath Abbey practices Christian hospitality, a generous giving to, and receiving from others. This mutual relationship expresses God’s love and makes us more alive. Here, you can read about how we give and receive with our mission partners around the world – in prayer, in the exchange of people and ideas, and in financial giving. In a global Britain this Abbey values the hospitality of the global church.
Unseen
Unseen is a UK charity with its head office in Bristol. They provide safehouses and support in the community for survivors of trafficking and modern slavery. They also run the UK Modern Slavery & Exploitation Helpline and work with individuals, communities, business, governments, other charities and statutory agencies to stamp out slavery for good.
Wycliffe Bible Translators
Wycliffe’s vision, in partnership with our supporters, is that everyone will have access to God’s word in the language that speaks to them best. The Bible changes lives – and so does the work of translating the Bible.
Wycliffe is a well established international charity working with a local partner in Togo to bring literacy education, literature and bible translation, in their mother-tongue, to the 200,000 people who speak the Ife language. The Abbey’s support has helped restart a project which is seeing literacy education extended and good progress be made in translating the Old Testament.
Genesis Trust
Genesis Trust supports disadvantaged and vulnerable people in the Bath area providing compassionate help to support people with their immediate needs and journey with them as they rebuild their lives.
Ripple Effect
Ripple Effect (previously Send A Cow) is an organisation that brings smallholder farmers together to learn more, grow more and sell more. They can feed their families nutritious food, and with a surplus to sell can invest in their farms, send their children to school and build sustainable agri-businesses.
The Abbey supports the Ripple Effect partner, the Zambian Rainbow Development Foundation (ZRDF) which works with 90,000 people in rural Zambia. ZRDF have four main areas of expertise: 1) enhancing sustainable agricultural practices 2) education 3) women’s economic empowerment and 4) health.
Arocha
A Rocha UK (ARUK) is a Christian charity working for the protection and restoration of the natural world and committed to equipping Christians and churches in the UK to care for the environment.
A Rocha UK (ARUK) is a Christian charity working for the protection and restoration of the natural world and committed to equipping Christians and churches in the UK to care for the environment.
Eco church is an A Rocha project that helps churches become more sustainable by harnessing opportunities in their use of land and buildings, community relationships, worship and teaching and lifestyle choices. The Abbey has received an Eco Church Bronze award and is now working towards Silver. For further details Eco Church - An A Rocha UK Project
