Introducing Urban Mission School
Accessing education is a basic human right; it is education that can lift people out of chronic poverty, raise aspirations, and create the opportunity to live life with purpose. But, for many children and young people, every day at school is a struggle. In fact, the current situation across the UK is really challenging:
Over 300,000 exclusions from school in the UK every year affecting around 150,000 pupils.
Children with free school meals are four times more likely to get a permanent exclusion from school.
More than two thirds of the current prison population were excluded from school.
One in seven 16-24 year old ’NEETs’ (those Not in Education, Employment or Training) die within ten years of falling out of the system.
ecclesia Church
Established in 2003, ecclesia is an outreach focused, bible teaching, community church. Through various means of community engagement, our goal in mission is to display the love of Christ and the attractiveness of the Gospel. Working under the name Urban Mission Schools & Community (UMSC), the leaders of ecclesia have worked in local schools and have a well-established reputation in the local education sector. The work of UMSC extends to other initiatives beyond schools, in an effort to touch all aspects of the community with God’s goodness.