Methodist Church in Great Britain

The Methodist Church in Great Britain, a Protestant Christian denomination founded by John Wesley in the 18th century, centers its mission on responding to God’s love through Christ via discipleship in worship, learning, caring, service, and evangelism, reaching neglected communities with spiritual and social transformation. Rooted in Wesleyan theology emphasizing universal grace, personal holiness, equality, justice, inclusion, and environmental stewardship toward net zero emissions, it funds faith-driven initiatives as a justice-seeking, evangelistic community valuing dignity, solidarity, and empowerment. Its impact approach prioritizes holistic change through collaborative partnerships, sustainable community-led projects, measurable outcomes, and learning strategies that integrate faith action with societal renewal.

It supports church growth and planting, discipleship training, gospel-sharing outreach, and equipping faith communities for mission amid poverty alleviation, inequality reduction, and injustice challenges, funding community engagement programs, mental health and wellbeing services including counselling and social cohesion initiatives in deprived areas, youth work with after-school clubs, mentoring, and social action projects, accessibility improvements for disabled people and elderly residents, physical wellbeing activities, chaplaincy for vulnerable groups, peer support groups fostering inclusion, therapeutic community spaces like refurbished centres for holistic support, environmental enhancements via energy-efficient buildings promoting sustainability, capacity building training, personnel for outreach to marginalised individuals facing economic exclusion, language fellowships building cohesion among ethnic minorities and refugees, and innovative partnerships addressing social isolation, family support, carer wellbeing, and rural community resilience through preventative, person-centred, trauma-informed interventions.

Exclusions encompass ongoing maintenance, non-mission-aligned projects lacking sustainability or local commitment, duplication of services, and work without connexional significance or evidence-based impact. Distinctive for its theological integration of spiritual evangelism with social justice, it prioritizes Christian-led organizations serving disadvantaged urban and rural communities, vulnerable families in crisis, isolated elderly, youth at risk, people with disabilities, those experiencing homelessness or food insecurity, and ethnic minorities, favoring grassroots faith groups with lived experience leadership, holistic wellbeing focus, and environmental commitment over secular or top-down models.