Drawing new maps of hope: this is the urgency of the mandate.
(Pope Leo, 2025)
Over the last 15 years, Spaces of Hope has emerged as a new interdisciplinary movement, paradigm and pedagogy for faith based organisation. This emergence has taken place in the north west of England, in a number of ways. First as a means of finding hope in contexts of crisis, almost like a compass. Learning hope as a life long process of discernment and consciousness raising. Understanding through experience that we can have living hope. Communicating that hope with others. Organising hope, through gathering and sharing ideas, co-creating shared meaning, stories and practices, and ultimately mapping hope across the different spaces that we share in our communities, institutions, regions, online and across the globe.
Spaces of Hope is being applied in new and diverse contexts. We have our Short Course offer. We have also been curating Gatherings in Liverpool City Region, Greater Manchester, and across the north of England, and as a critical pedagogy through work with the Susanna Wesley Foundation, Northumbria Community and Virginia Theological Seminary (USA). The search for hope that we have been pursuing since 2010 took on an international flavour, as part of the Radical Hope campaign, launched at Inner Temple, London, and developed in conjunction with the William Temple Foundation, Virginia Theological Seminary, Diocese of Salford, Manchester Cathedral, Gramsci Society (UK), Global Collaboration Institute, Hizmet Movement and St Joseph's University, Macao.
In March 2025, Curating Spaces of Hope: Transformational Leadership for Uncertain Times was published by SCM Press. This book has been described as
“reinterpreting or even reinventing the Temple legacy for this century … offering plenty of lessons … for all leaders, all institutions and all who think they are on the peripheries” (Chair of the William Temple Foundation).
"[the] well-narrated experiences and detailed arguments offer an encouraging and hopeful case for the transformative leadership that he commends”. (Stephen Timms MP)
“This is a pioneering book of exceptional erudition … It is an exercise in Christian social ethics that could be defining for the moment in which we live. A must read”. (President of Virginia Theological Seminary Ian Markham)
For more about our work checkout the Recommendations page, and to buy there Spaces of Hope book, head over to our book store where you will find a 20% Sale compared to RRP.
You can also get in touch by email
Spaces of Hope is being applied in new and diverse contexts. We have our Short Course offer. We have also been curating Gatherings in Liverpool City Region, Greater Manchester, and across the north of England, and as a critical pedagogy through work with the Susanna Wesley Foundation, Northumbria Community and Virginia Theological Seminary (USA). The search for hope that we have been pursuing since 2010 took on an international flavour, as part of the Radical Hope campaign, launched at Inner Temple, London, and developed in conjunction with the William Temple Foundation, Virginia Theological Seminary, Diocese of Salford, Manchester Cathedral, Gramsci Society (UK), Global Collaboration Institute, Hizmet Movement and St Joseph's University, Macao.
In March 2025, Curating Spaces of Hope: Transformational Leadership for Uncertain Times was published by SCM Press. This book has been described as
“reinterpreting or even reinventing the Temple legacy for this century … offering plenty of lessons … for all leaders, all institutions and all who think they are on the peripheries” (Chair of the William Temple Foundation).
"[the] well-narrated experiences and detailed arguments offer an encouraging and hopeful case for the transformative leadership that he commends”. (Stephen Timms MP)
“This is a pioneering book of exceptional erudition … It is an exercise in Christian social ethics that could be defining for the moment in which we live. A must read”. (President of Virginia Theological Seminary Ian Markham)
For more about our work checkout the Recommendations page, and to buy there Spaces of Hope book, head over to our book store where you will find a 20% Sale compared to RRP.
You can also get in touch by email
We work with a wide variety of partners from across the public square. A selection of these are shared here. If you want to discuss a project you think we could help with, get in touch.
