What services do we provide?

If you need help,advice or just a sympathetic ear at any time, please get in touch with us. Below you will find our Vision and Mission Statements as well as some brief notes on worship, international students, helping others and "chilling out". There's also some further information about arriving at Anglia Ruskin University.

The work of Chaplaincy is overseen by a Chaplaincy Council which brings together representatives of the University (including the Vice-Chancellor), representatives of the various churches and representatives of our students.

Vision Statement

To join with others in our University to build a community which enables its members to realise their full individual and social potential as human beings.

Mission Statement

To provide space and opportunity for spiritual exploration with the academic and community life of our University, and to share the insights of Christianity and other faiths and philosophies.

Objectives

1. To contribute to the pastoral care of both students and staff within Anglia Ruskin University by offering ourselves as companions, encouragers and listeners and supporting people who feel they are being unjustly treated.
2. To provide accredited representation of faith within our University, through an appropriate constituted ecumenical and multi-faith Chaplaincy Team.
3. To encourage co-operation and interaction between members of our University and local churches and other faith communities.
4. To encourage interaction across boundaries of discipline, organisation and belief, and share the exploration of values of spirituality.
5. To provide opportunities for worship and other religious and spiritual activities in our University.
6. To support and encourage societies and initiatives which have a religious or charitable purpose.
7. To encourage a spirit of community within our University through the involvement of every member of the Chaplaincy Team in its administrative, academic and social life.
8. To work with our University in its valuing of the diversity, dignity and worth of every person within Anglia Ruskin University, and to assist in the provision of a considerate, efficient, effective and enriching experience for every member of our University community.

Worship

There are Services of Communion & Mass throughout the semesters. On campus you will see regularly Chaplaincy displays and events. There is increasing shared activity with the local churches, not least a popular Anglia Ruskin University Christmas service each year at Chelmsford Cathedral.

There is an active Christian Union, which meets regularly during semesters. Contact them at essexcu@angliastudent.com. We hold information on many places of worship: churches, mosques, synagogues and temples. If you need help in finding the right place for you, please contact us.

Chaplaincy provides a multi-faith service on campus, seeking to provide opportunities for members of other faiths to celebrate their faith on campus. Chaplaincy has representatives for different faith groups, details are given below:

Helping Others

Supporting initiatives by Christian Aid and other charity aid organisations, and joining an annual Chaplaincy trip to Croatia to help in a hospital for sick children; there are two ways in which you can help Chaplaincy & walk alongside us in our work. There is also a volunteering agency which offers many opportunities for helping others and doing domething useful at Uni. Ring ext 2776 or 3045.

Did you know that Anglia Ruskin is now officially a Fairtrade university? You will see more and more Fairtrade products available at the university's food outlets, and there is a Fairtrade group which meets regularly to monitor progress in raising awareness of Fairtrade issues and products. Interested in getting involved with this? Then get in touch!

International Students

We welcome warmly students from all over the world. As part of their induction programme international students are invited to one of the Sunday lunches put on by Chaplaincy to welcome new students and Chaplaincy can arrange hospitality for students a long way from home with local families.

Chilling Out

As well as all the activities mentioned, throughout the semesters Chaplaincy arranges events which are purely social and fun, ranging from barbecues to Christmas parties, and other events which tie in with the social calendar, as well as offering the Chaplaincy Centre and its quiet room all day and every day for any who just want to get away for a while and enjoy five minutes peace.

The University has a choir- the Anglia Singers- which is always willing to welcome new members. It sings a varied programme of music ranging from the sacred to the secular and also takes part in the Christmas carol service.