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Mothers' Union Diocese of Derby

Mothers’ Union in the Diocese of Derby covers the city of Derby and the county of Derbyshire

Groups
27
Members
425
Projects
10

Members in the diocese enthusiastically support Mothers’ Union initiatives and projects, as well as supporting activities arranged or coordinated by their churches and parishes.

Members promote family life through parenting group work, marriage support and campaigning for family-supportive policies, whilst at the same time upholding families affected by poverty, homelessness, imprisonment and relationship break-down.

Our work:

  • Away From It All (AFIA) holidays
  • Helpful books for children
  • Supporting victims of modern slavery and human trafficking
  • Parenting courses
  • Parent and toddler groups
  • Lunch clubs
  • Baptism preparation
  • 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence
  • Outreach into local schools
  • Knitting

Members are not all mothers, or even all women. Mothers’ Union provides a network for all our four million members, through which they can serve Christ in their own community – through prayer, financial support and actively working at the grassroot level in programmes that meet local need.


We have three forms of membership in the diocese: Branch, Diocesan and Indoor Membership.

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Contact details

Church House, Full Street
Derby,
DE1 3DR
United Kingdom
Primary contact: Carol Johnston
Telephone: 07731 342447
Email: mothersunion@derby.anglican.org
Province: Canterbury
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Groups in Derby Diocese

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All Saints - Ripley

DE5 3DA, United Kingdom

All Saints - Stanley Common

DE7 6FT, United Kingdom

All Saints - Wingerworth

S42 6PF, United Kingdom

Allenton, St Edmund

DE24 9JA, United Kingdom

Ashbourne

DE6 1AN, United Kingdom

Aston & Weston-on-trent

DE72 2AZ, United Kingdom

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Mothers’ Union campaigns around the world, through our 4 million members in 84 countries, for an end to gender-based violence – violence carried out most often against women and girls because of their gender

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AFIA is a Mothers’ Union holiday scheme

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