Although we have really enjoyed our newly refurbished premises since they opened the educational environment has changed. Since Covid, remote working is much more possible. Our mission is worldwide. Not many students want to come into full time residence and we need to move to a less residential pattern. Without core funding from any church and as grant funds we have benefitted from are no longer available we need to release the capital tied up in the current lease to create a sustainable future for our work.

To premises in central Cambridge. We plan to make an announcement in January 2025.

There are no planned changes to our academic staff.

Some of our Support staff have fixed-term contracts which will end when we no longer need to support a residential community.

We teach public and practical Methodist theology from access to PhD level. Through our Cambridge Theological Federation partnerships we offer PhD, DProf, MA, BTh degrees. We publish a free access, peer reviewed online journal, Holiness. We offer consultancy to churches and other organisations on leadership and ministry development and offer courses in professional development, particularly in Reflective Pastoral Supervision.

Yes. We are currently right-sizing our physical library collection so that it is focused on the needs of the work we now do. We are investing in new books & especially in ebooks that are available to our students online.

The library will be open in office hours (Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm) with some room for studying and with the same borrowing rights as now.

Our degree students are typically mature students with significant ministry or leadership experience. The majority are studying for doctoral degrees, working in their home context. The majority are from Africa (40%), with 30% from the UK & Europe, 25% from North America, and 5% from Asia.

We have more than 70 students registered on degree programmes and at any one time around 100 students registered on professional development courses.

Yes. You can join our PhD programme in September, January or April each year. We are also recruiting for our DProf and MA programmes starting in September 2025. We are not recruiting to the DTM programme for 2025-26.

No. We have a Memorandum of Understanding that sets out our partnership and that remains unchanged.

Some of our PhD students are on a programme sponsored by the World Mission Fund of the MCB. We value our local Methodist partnerships with the circuit and the surrounding districts.

We are a LEAD Hub of the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry of the United Methodist Church and a member of the International Association of Methodist Schools, Colleges and Universities. We partner with the World Methodist Council and with a number of Methodist seminaries and universities around the world.

We receive a contribution from the Methodist Church in Britain to our free online journal, Holiness, and that will continue.

Yes. We are maintaining our residential community until July 2025 and you are welcome to come and join us.

You can visit as a Sabbatical guest from September 2025 to use our library and join us for worship and conversation.

We will try different patterns of worship but expect to have weekly, monthly and termly patterns of worship. Details will be on our website. We hope to start having some small accountability groups for students to meet online.

Yes. We will be running four courses (Certificate, Diploma, Group Supervision, and Supervision Skills for Groups in Clinical settings) at our current site in the summer of July 2025, and we will be able to continue offering these courses in our new premises.

We are also running a number of Certificate courses for Anglican dioceses off-site. Some of these are part of an exciting new partnership with St. Luke's for Clergy.

We will soon be launching a new programme of CPD day courses which will be run in a variety of venues - including our current Jesus Lane home. An online supervision group for senior practitioners is another new development for 2025.

No. We will remain members of the Cambridge Theological Federation and continue to offer degrees in partnership with Anglia Ruskin University and the University of Cambridge.

Our partnerships with Africa University in Zimbabwe and Kenya Methodist University will not change.

We are grateful to everyone who has supported Wesley House with their time, talents and money from our Founder, Michael Gutteridge, up to those supporting us today. Without these donations we would not be here now.

Past donations have either been used directly to fund ongoing work or to create and maintain our College premises. Releasing the money that has been invested into our buildings will enable us to create investments that will fund our future.

Yes. We feel called to extend our impact and support more students from all over the world. We hope to add donations received into our investments and so increase the returns made each year that will be used to pay for our work.

We will also be grateful to receive donations for specific purposes, for example providing scholarships for individual students or groups of students, providing library resources, supporting the Holiness journal, or funding research.

Jesus College is exploring options for the future use of the buildings.

You will be very welcome to visit our new premises and work in our library. There will be regular in person worship and public events. Our new premises will be your base when in Cambridge with space to study, make coffee and join a seminar or teaching session. We are planning to hold two or three fortnights a year of concentrated activity (cohort weeks), which will be the best time to join us and the best opportunity to meet more of the staff team.

No but we can recommend places to stay in Cambridge.

Yes. We will make arrangements for somewhere for you to stay nearby. You are encouraged to join one of our regular cohort weeks when staff and visiting scholars and students will form an in person community.

No. We will continue to honour all the commitments we have made to our students.

No. We continue to offer a mix of in-person and online teaching, tailored to each student’s circumstances

Yes. You can visit our new office during the same opening hours as now (9am – 5pm, Monday to Friday). The library will be closed in July & August 2025 whilst it is moved.

We are working out our new in person daily, weekly and termly patterns but we are planning to host regular events when we can study, worship and eat together with you. Online worship and study opportunities will continue and we are piloting other ways of connecting digitally.

Yes. We’d love to welcome you back to Jesus Lane between now and the end of June 2025.

We hope to see you at our open day and final service here on 21st June 2025.

From September 2025 we will be in new premises that you can visit. To see the old buildings you will need to contact Jesus College.

We will remove the old college photographs from the staircase in the Greenhalgh building and digitize them so that they are available online. We will archive the originals if you would like to access them in future.

We will take a selection of the college’s art and other artefacts to display to help communicate our history and our ethos.