Children and Families

Families are a highly valued part of the life of Leicester Cathedral, and we are delighted to have families from across Leicester and Leicestershire who call our church community 'home'.

The vision for our work with children and families is to provide opportunities to meet with and learn about the God revealed in Jesus who loves each one of us, in whose image we are all made.

We have four words which shape everything we do together: fun, family, inclusive and safe.

• In everything we do, we hope that children and their families will have fun together, so all of our work is built around games, creativity and relationships.
• Since many of those in our church community have little or no day-to-day access to extended family networks, we are seeking to build a healthy, safe, interdependent family dynamic within Junior Church and beyond into the wider church community.
• At Junior Church we seek to welcome and include children and families of all kinds, celebrating the diversity of stories and experience which have shaped us.
• Healthy communities are safe communities, and we seek to model this through our commitment to safeguarding the wellbeing of everyone in our care, children, young people and adults alike.

Junior Church

Sundays during the 10.30am Eucharist
Kempe Room, St Martins House

Junior Church provides children and teenagers with an opportunity to learn more about, and get to know, the God who loves them through a programme of games, crafts, stories and other activities! While we primarily follow the Lectionary, we also aim to mark and celebrate seasons and initiatives including Creationtide, Black History Month and Fairtrade Fortnight.

We meet in the Kempe Room in St Martins House during termtime (excluding the second Sunday of each half term holiday). Children of any age up to and including Key Stage 3 are welcome; children who are not yet of school age must be accompanied by a parent or carer.

Half term family activity mornings

Tuesday 20 February, 28 May and 22 October
9.00am-12.30pm, Knighton Parish Centre, Church Lane, Leicester, LE2 3WG

Our half term activity mornings are an opportunity for the whole family to have fun together playing games, doing crafts, chatting, eating and reflecting, and much more!

Because these are family activity mornings, all grown-ups need to be accompanied by at least one person aged 16 or under! Conversely, all children aged 16 and under need to be accompanied by a parent or carer!

To find out more about Leicester Cathedral's work with children and families, please email our children and families worker, Louise Davis (louise.davis@leicestercofe.org).

The Dean Designate and Chapter of the Cathedral are wholly committed to the safety, well-being and protection of everyone having contact with our community. We all share responsibility for Safeguarding.

All volunteers working with our children and families have been recruited in line with our Safer Recruitment policy and have undertaken appropriate safeguarding training and a DBS check.

For more information on Safeguarding and Leicester Cathedral, click here.