Greetings from St Paul’s West Hackney and welcome to our website.

I hope that you will find here something of a window onto the work of the Church of England in West Hackney as expressed through the life of St Paul's Church.

We try our best to be an inclusive neighbourhood church by welcoming all comers, regardless of race, age, employment status or sexual orientation and by reflecting the diversity of the local community that surrounds us and which we aim to serve. As such, we are a church that probably best suits people who want to explore their faith and are not easily satisfied by easy answers.

I hope that you will find some of these aspirations reflected in the content of this website which, like all the best things in life, is a work in progress, so please don’t make this visit your last one!

One great bit of news is that The Heritage Lottery Fund has awarded us £45,700 to develop a bid for a grant of over £600,000 to redevelop the 2 acre site that is St Paul's Churchyard and the former Church Burial Ground that is now known as West Hackney Recreation Ground. If you would like to read more about this project, you can do so here.  see a copy of the Draft Master Plan for the work or to read more about the project, then do click here. Please be patient - it's a big file!

We're delighted to announce that Stoke Newington Farmers' Market is now based here at St Paul's. They'll be with us every Saturday from now on and we're really pleased to have them on site as one of our partner organisations. You can read more about The Farmers' Market here.

We're equally delighted that The Bath House Children's Centre has created and is developing a 'Woodland School' in The Rectory Garden and you can read all about this here

Don't forget that in the midst of all this and other activity, St Paul's Church is open every day from 7am to 4pm. Please feel free to come in and find a bit of peace and quiet in a busy world. You'd be most welcome. You can light a candle, say a prayer, leave a message about something you'd like us to pray for or simply take some time out on your own. The choice, like the church, is yours.

With prayers and best wishes,

Niall Weir
Rector of West Hackney