Welcome

Welcome to Lidgett Park Methodist Church. We are a friendly community, always ready to welcome visitors and new members to our Sunday services and to any of our wide range of weekday activities. There is something for all ages, and we serve our local community by making our premises available to a number of outside organisations: the premises are busily used every day.

We are committed to expressing our faith in practical ways, and therefore hold many social events that raise many thousands of pounds a year for charitable work in this country and abroad.

We also house the Circuit Office and a substantial preachers' library that is available for anyone to use.

The first buildings (the current hall and vestry) were built in 1910, when the surrounding area was mainly farmland about to be developed into a housing estate. The chapel was opened in 1926. It is a fine building, furnished in polished oak, with something of an ‘Arts and Crafts’ character.

Our Church Mission Statement

To provide for our church family a basis for spiritual growth, mutual care and support, outreach of faith and witness and seek to raise their awareness of concerns in the wider church.

Ways Forward

1. Provide through corporate worship and related activities for spiritual growth and the deepening of faith in God through Christ.
2. Express Christian love through mutual care and support and provide for fellowship for members and for others within the community.
3. Provide outreach of faith and witness within and beyond the local community and to extend the church family.
4. Raise the awareness of the church family of concerns experienced by our fellow Christians and others, in other countries, in this city and the neighbourhood.

Click here for a colour brochure with pictures and description of the church's history and features.

Minister:

Revd Tanya M. Short (0113) 266 6791
Please contact Tanya for any queries particularly regarding baptism, church membership, weddings and funerals.

Tanya's profile

Senior Church Steward:
Mr Howard Clinkard  (0113) 267 2986

Organist:
Mr David Wilks (0113) 293 2960

Room Bookings:
Mrs Patricia Davies (0113) 266 3090,

Regular Activities

Badminton Club

Mondays, 8.30 pm

Contact: Jackie Bennett 268 4914

Ladies' Group

Alternate Thursdays, 7.45 pm

Contact: Lynne Pullein 266 5303 or Anne Millett 266 6910

Lidgett Singers

Rehearsals after monthly Saturday coffee mornings and at other times as arranged

Contact: David Wilks 293 2960

Lidgett Park Band

Informal group: all instruments welcome. Plays in morning services every month or two with rehearsal before the service.

Contact: Howard Clinkard  (0113) 267 2986

Social Events

Frequent social events are organised which are entertaining and community-building, and that raise more than £10,000 per year for the annual charity project. In the past ten years the church has raised more than £100k for charitable purposes in Britain and overseas.

In 2017/2018 we raised money to make our main entrance on Lidgett Place more accessible and welcoming to people who come in that way. Included in this work was the addition of fully accessible toilets. In 2019/20 we have been raising funds for Oasis Relief Zambia which provides clean water and for Streeper Village Bangladesh which helps women in that area

Slideshows of recent social events:

• Mudder Event organised by Mary Patchett to raise money to provide clean water in Zambia (photos by Mary Patchett)
• Swing Dance 2019 in aid of the Church Project (photos by Mary Patchett)
• Open Welcome Weekend June 2019

Slideshows of past events