Who is doing this work for the Church and making decisions on reparations?

This work is being co-ordinated by a working group of subject specialist leads and staff from the Connexional Team representing heritage, social justice and social action, inclusion, global relationships and theology.

This work is being done collaboratively and in partnership, with an Advisory Group from the wider Connexion and other denominations with interests in theology, racial justice, academic research and social action, by listening to the voices of descendent communities and those impacted by the legacies of slavery in Britian, and with global Partner Churches from Africa and the Caribbean.

As members of a justice-seeking Church, everyone across the Connexion is invited to engage with this issue of racial injustice, to explore local, historical Methodist complicity in the benefits of enslaving African people and are asked to feed into determining what the scale of the Church’s response and actions should be as a result.

Together we will co-create proposals to bring to the Methodist Conference, which will confer and make decisions on the actions to be taken in response to our truth-seeking and truth-telling.