About Us

We are a Christian charity seeking to serve the whole Church as it serves our City.

As an independent and non-denominational Christian Mission we work with all flavours of Church in Southampton. This means we are well placed to join people together, see gaps when they arise, encourage networks of different groups, and help weave some of the different threads of God’s Kingdom together in our City.

  • We believe that the local Church is God’s plan for the world, and so we are not a standard parachurch organisation, seeking to do this work independently alongside the Church. Rather, we seek to help, invite, challenge, equip, train, enable and release the local church into greater and more effective mission in Southampton.

    We are not an anti-poverty charity, but see that Jesus’ Kingdom invitation to all is to be worked out holistically; by sharing, proclamation, teaching and by showing, loving, giving and serving.

    For many years we have worked for greater Church unity across Southampton and are delighted to be part of the One Body Southampton network. https://onebodysouthampton.com/

    We are happy to provide churches with mission focused consultation, networking, training, enabling partnerships between churches, nurturing civic facing relationships and giving insight into the citywide church, anti-poverty charities and advice agencies.

We have three main, ongoing, church partnership projects:

  • Our Schools work program is in over 50 schools across Southampton and Hampshire, the majority of the work in Primary Schools. We take small teams of Christian volunteers from local churches into schools with us, to help with our whole day, Question of Faith workshops. These days are bespoke to the school’s curriculum requirements and teach parts of the Christian religious education syllabus which the schools have to teach by law. We also train volunteers to become team leaders, so they in turn can lead the days in their local schools.

    Alongside Question of Faith days the team deliver other PSHE and RE lessons, assemblies, transition days and CAP money days. In partnership with Scripture Union, we have been delighted to facilitate Grow Communities (peer led after-school Jesus clubs on school premises – supported by volunteers from local churches) in the last few years.

  • We run the SCM Basics Bank project across Southampton in partnership with six different host churches. This emergency food and clothes network is accessed by referral only and is a free provision to anyone in need in the city. Guests are greeted with refreshments and are welcome to chat to our volunteers while waiting for their parcels to be made up.

  • Four other Southampton churches host SCM Marketplace projects. These affordable food clubs encourage new communities to form, as members and volunteers share and shop together each week. We partner with various advice agencies and charities who provide drop-in advice consultations at our venues.

    It is an honour and a joy to be joining in with God’s plan of rescue and redemption in Southampton. Such a privilege to be working with both churches and individual Christians, partnering together to reach out with God’s love, compassion and hope.