We have some great news! The Greenhouse at Barnes Close has been approved by the University of Manchester and Nazarene Theological College as a “Partnership Campus”. This means that our Seedbeds School for Urban Leadership work, that designs and delivers post-graduate leadership programmes with NTC, can now be officially offered at The Greenhouse for residentials.
The Greenhouse is a former Cadbury family home that we took up as part of the Community for Reconciliation in February last year, just weeks before the Pandemic lockdown. It was in a near derelict state then, but through the thoughtfulness, hard work and sacrifice of our community and supporters it has been transformed and includes beautifully equipped training rooms, a 5,000 volume theological library and is able to host up to 30 students for residentials. We are especially grateful for all those who helped make this day possible, including Deidre Brower-Latz and Peter Rae at NTC who worked for approval with UofM.
The Greenhouse is nestled at the foot of the Waseley Hills between Birmingham and Worcester on five acres of grounds with direct access to the Waseley Hills Country Park. It’s a renewing place, but still accessible to urban leaders as it’s within a two hour drive for 40 million people and just a twenty minute drive from our base in Winson Green. We hope The Greenhouse at Barnes Close as an NTC Partnership Campus will create more opportunities to grow a new generation of community leaders into God’s fullness of life through accredited, practical and formative leadership programmes.
We do need your help if it’s possible. Could you please help us make this new venture work by inviting people to join us? Our first MA unit offered by NTC with SUL at the Greenhouse at Barnes Close as Partnership Campus is ‘Social Entrepreneurship: Leading Enterprises’. Just one invitation could make a huge difference in the life of that leader and their community.
We are looking to support people who want to grow in their capacity to take up unique leadership opportunities and make a sustainable difference in the lives of those people and places they are called to love. Could you pass these details onto such people to help make that possible?
For more information and to apply visit Seedbeds School for Urban Leadership
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