Come and find out about the WAVE initiative and discover how you can create a WAVE community in your context.
WAVE – We’re All Valued Equally – is a mixed-abilities community in which people with and without learning disabilities come together to form friendships, worship God, and celebrate the joy of our human diversity.
In partnership with the Diocese of London, this WAVE immersive workshop is an opportunity to
- better understand the growing need in our communities for mixed ability worship and social gatherings
- learn from WAVE’s experience and the practical resources available to support new inclusive initiatives
- actively participate, with members of the WAVE community, in a short mixed-ability worship service and optional Pop-Up Café event
If you, or someone you know, have ever felt the desire to create more genuinely inclusive places in your church or community – but challenged as to where or how to start – then this workshop is for you.
Originating in Muswell Hill in 2009, the WAVE community has grown to include monthly worship services, a weekly ‘Challenge’ Group (for parents and carers of children with additional needs) and WAVE Café Hub (where people of all ages and abilities gather to share food and enjoy a range of creative and well-being activities).
The WAVE ethos is to do things WITH and NOT FOR each other.
The vision is to see more people with and without learning disabilities mixing together and having fun in the heart of communities across London and beyond.
Programme for the event
2pm – 3.30pm The WAVE story and how to begin a WAVE community
3.30pm – 3.45pm Break
3.45pm – 4.15pm WAVE worship service
4.15pm – 6.15pm Pop up arts cafe
Find out more about WAVE at: https://www.wave-for-change.org.uk/
The workshop is free and open to clergy, church leaders and also church members who have a personal or professional connection with learning disability.
You can register to attend this event on Eventbrite.
If you have questions about this event, please email
bernice.hardie@waveforchange.org.uk or john.beauchamp@london.anglican.org