We believe that every local community can flourish, but few urban neighbourhoods realise their unique potential.

Through responsive, practical and innovative programmes, Seedbeds grows local leaders and communities into:

• Fullness of Life
• Fresh Connections
• Fruitful Diversity
• Flourishing Roots

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Change Makers London Taster Event 

Discover your Passion & Purpose

£20

9am-5pm on Saturday 6 January 2024

at Seedbeds Centre, Manor Park, North London E12 6PG

Unleash your inner fire, find your true calling and ignite your purpose at this Discover Your Passion & Purpose event, led by Dave Mann & Ash Barker, experienced community organisers, coaches and Christian Church Ministers.

This one-day event will look back at how life’s shaped us, reflect on our passions and experiences and look forward to where we want to go including personal mission statements and a plan of how to fulfil our unique God-given purpose.

Find out more and book your space by clicking on the button below.

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Coming Soon!
Ash Barker’s
New Book!

Book launches in 2024

Ash Barker’s New Book!

No Wastelands:

How to grow seedbeds of Shalom in your neighbourhood.

In No Wastelands Ash Barker shares his odyssey of serving on the front line of urban poverty on three continents. Through stories, scriptures, and challenging insights, Ash inspires readers to release the unique potential of their local communities.

Birmingham’s book launch 
on Sunday 28 January 2024 at 4-6pm
at Lodge Road Community Church, 143-4 Lodge Road, Winson Green, Birmingham B18 5BU
Admission is FREE, just turn up!

Featuring :
Talk, reading and Q&A with Ash Barker
Music from Celtish
Music from local musicians

Copies of the book will be available for sale on the night and Ash will be signing copies.

 

For the full launch schedule, click below: 

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Mobilising a new Community of Pioneers in Britain

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"Is the life I am living the life that wants to live in me?"

– Parker J Palmer –

"I’ve come to give life - and life in all its fullness."

– Jesus –

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

– Martin Luther King Jnr –

"The only change that is truly sustainable is community driven change."

– Cormac Russell –

"Find the gifts and talents of everyone in the community. Find a place for that gift, utilise that gift in ways that build community, economy and mutual delight."

– DeAmon Harges –

"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."

– Maya Angelou –

"I’ve learnt over the years that when one's mind is made up this diminishes fear. Knowing what must be done does away with fear."

– Rosa Parks –

"The only change that is truly sustainable is community driven change."

– Cormac Russell –

"I’ve come to give life - life in all its fullness."

– Jesus –

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

– Martin Luther King Jnr –

"Is the life I am living the life that wants to live in me?"

– Parker J Palmer  –

"Find the gifts and talents of everyone in the community. Find a place for that gift, utilise that gift in ways that build community, economy and mutual delight"

– DeAmon Harges –

"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."

– Maya Angelou –

"I’ve learnt over the years that when one's mind is made up this diminishes fear. Knowing what must be done does away with fear."

– Rosa Parks –

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