Our ethos

In our activities and the running of our facilities we seek to hold in creative tension….

• Prayerfulness and critical questioning
• Our Wesleyan roots and open engagement with others
• Academic rigour and practical effectiveness
• Institutional memory and prophetic vision
• Freedom to think and respect for difference
• The local and the global
• Responsiveness to needs and careful stewardship of resources
• Support for learning and encouragement of independent work
• The concerns and interests of the various overlapping communities
  that form Wesley House

We seek to nurture working, worshipping, residential and learning communities and partnerships that invite:

• fairness and respect
• open communication
• depth of engagement
• realism and creativity
• kindness and generosity
• mutual support and accountability
• naming and learning from our mistakes