Loving our neighbours here and now, just as the parish has been since 1831.

• Distributing free meals to needy local families during the school holidays (in partnership with a number of organisations, including the Felix Project, Enfield Futsal League, and the Arnold Clark Community Fund)

• Opening the church on Christmas Day for a soup kitchen and open house, for providing food, company and holiday cheer for the homeless, the elderly and those on their own. Publicity and transport having been supported in past years by the Old Enfield Charitable Trust.

• Being a founding member church of (and giving long-term financial support to) the Enfield Churches Debt Centre, in partnership with Christians Against Poverty, for those who seek to be liberated by the captivity of indebtedness.

We have a five-year plan for the growth of our community and our involvement in it.

We’ve highlighted five main points:

1. Developing our Young Church

2. Deepening our relationships with the schools in our parish (thirteen in total). More is said on our page Children growing in faith.

3. Strengthening our connection with youth work in the community.

4. Serving the older generation

5. Launching a new congregation within the parish

We are committed to alleviate hardship and suffering, both near and far, and to this end:

• We work together with partners such as the Children’s Society, supporting vulnerable children in the UK, and Christian Aid in relief projects globally.

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• We as a church commit a portion of our income every year to charitable giving; through suggestions from our congregation, plus in response to various appeals, the Parish of St James has given in recent years to the following charities and causes:

  • Supporting local causes:

    • With local primary schools in helping them provide books in a lending library

    • St Mungo’s Charity for the Homeless 

    • The Chicken Shed Theatre (working with young people in Enfield Borough)

    • Enfield Refugees Welcome

    • All People All Places, in its work with the Enfield Churches Winter Night Shelter

    • Enfield Women’s Centre

    • Nightingale Cancer Support Centre

    • Raising funds in the autumn at harvest time for the North Enfield Foodbank, and for other charities.

  • Charities working nationally:​​​​

    • Helen Rollason Cancer Charity

    • Alzheimer’s Society UK

    • Shelter

    • Crisis UK

  • Organisations operating globally:

    • Tearfund

    • Toilet Twinning

    • Church- and Christian-led disaster and relief appeals in Mozambique, Angola and Dominica

    • Action Aid UK, in helping women and girls in poverty