Now we are in 2025 we are excited about welcoming people to CTE Forum. It will take place from teatime on Monday 17 March to lunchtime on Wednesday 19 March 2025 at The Hayes Conference Centre, Swanwick, Derbyshire, DE55 1AU.
The CTE Forum provides a unique opportunity for members of the CTE family to learn, worship and build relationships together. It provides a wonderful opportunity to meet old friends and also make new ones.
Spaces are still available to book and the deadline for booking is 31 January 2025.
There are plenty of non-residential places still available and if you haven’t booked already, do book your place as soon as possible. Although on-site accommodation is no longer available, there are many places to stay in easy reach of The Hayes.
Forum is a delegate conference, bringing together more than three hundred representatives of Churches Together in England’s national Member Churches, Intermediate Bodies and Charities and Networks in Association and booking links have been sent to representatives of each of these parts of the ecumenical family. If you are unsure if you can attend or don’t know how to book please contact Lorraine Shannon in the CTE office.
A draft programme for CTE Forum 2025 is now available.
Please do keep an eye on the CTE Forum 2025 website for updates as we draw closer to the event.
Workshops and worship if you have already booked your place at Forum
You will receive an email with an invitation to choose your two optional workshops and one optional worship session.
Choosing your workshops and worship session early helps us with allocating rooms so everyone can attend their chosen sessions. Please do complete the form, which will only take a minute or two.
Workshops
At Forum this year there is a wide range of rich learning and discussion opportunities through 11 different workshops. Workshop themes include chaplaincy, Forest Church, intercultural church, spiritual abuse, accessible church, living with diversity on human sexuality, new housing areas, green finance, the Israel-Palestine conflict, as well as an opportunity to listen to the voices of young ecumenical leaders on some of society’s big issues and a Theology Slam.
Explore the workshops at CTE Forum 2025.
Worship
Although a majority of our worship at Forum is all together on the Tuesday evening there will be the opportunity to attend one of a selection of worship opportunities. Delegates are welcome to choose to either worship in their own tradition or to try something different and join a worship service of another tradition.
Explore the worship options at CTE Forum 2025.
Please do join us for CTE Forum 2025. Visit the CTE Forum 2025 microsite at cte.org.uk/forum2025.